Do you know about how many people with chronic liver disease are on the mainland? According to statistics, in 2020, the total number of patients with chronic liver disease, including all kinds of acute and chronic hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, etc., has exceeded 447 million!
It should be known that the liver is the largest substantial internal organ of the human body, which is located in the right upper abdomen of the abdominal cavity, and its main basic functions are metabolism and detoxification, biotransformation.
The biotransformation completed in the liver alone has reached more than 500 species, which involves many aspects such as the digestive system, the coagulation system, and the endocrine system.
Once the liver is damaged and liver function is seriously reduced, it will directly affect the patient's physical health and lead to dysfunction of multiple systems throughout the body.
After the patient is found for chronic liver disease, its treatment is a fairly long process, especially chronic hepatitis B or C, cirrhosis and other diseases;
Patients need to cooperate with doctors for long-term medication treatment, and should also pay attention to dietary adjustments. From a clinical point of view, the diet of patients with liver disease should pay more attention to the following five points:
1, protein intake: protein is an important substance in all the cellular composition of the human body, liver disease patients intake of sufficient protein, to balance liver function, promote the regeneration of liver cells have certain benefits.
Usually, the amount of protein that people with liver disease consume each day converts into heat energy, which accounts for about 15% of the total heat energy ingested.
Therefore, liver disease patients can choose some high-quality protein foods, such as eggs and poultry meat, milk, soy products, etc.
It should be emphasized here that if the patient's liver function has failed and may be combined with hepatic encephalopathy, protein intake should be restricted;
2, balanced calories: liver disease patients need to strictly control the total calorie intake every day, because insufficient calories will affect the repair of liver cells, and excessive calories will increase the burden of liver metabolism, which may lead to fatty liver.
Therefore, scientific control of total calories is necessary, usually liver disease patients daily intake of calories, should be controlled at about 2000-2500 kcal, these calories are roughly equivalent to a pound of milk, two eggs, 400 grams of staple food and a pound of fruit produced by the sum of calories;
3, vitamins can not be less: liver disease patients should consume more vitamin-rich food, the reason for this, because vitamin B, niacin, vitamin C and other substances;
It is conducive to the normal metabolism of the liver and the repair of liver cells, and at the same time can effectively reduce the toxic effect of harmful substances on the liver, alleviate the fatigue and fatigue caused by liver disease, indigestion and other symptoms.
In food, the best source of vitamins is actually a variety of fruits, green vegetables, etc.;
4. Pay attention to the way food is cooked: patients with liver disease will be accompanied by indigestion, oil fatigue, bloating after meals, nausea and other symptoms.
Therefore, the patient's daily diet should not only pay attention to balanced collocation, but also pay attention to the cooking method of food, avoid eating fried, hot oil stir-frying and other processing methods;
Instead, it is necessary to try to choose steaming, boiling and other cooking methods, and at the same time pay attention to avoid adding a large number of condiments, try to maintain a light diet, and maintain the original taste of food;
5, abstinence from alcohol: the liver is the most important place for alcohol metabolism degradation, but whether it is alcohol itself, the metabolic substances produced by alcohol, will cause damage to liver cells.
A large number of studies have shown that alcohol and acetaldehyde have direct hepatotoxic effects, and long-term alcohol abuse can cause problems such as alcoholic fatty liver and hepatitis.
If you have suffered from chronic liver disease and still drink heavily for a long time, this will accelerate the development of liver disease, and even cause cirrhosis.
Finally, it should also be emphasized that liver disease diet regulation is only a part, and no food can replace drugs.
Therefore, after the diagnosis of chronic liver disease, in order to control the further development of the disease, what patients can do is to actively seek medical examination, and then take targeted drugs according to the doctor's recommendations, and adjust diet and living habits on the basis of medication treatment.