"Cirrhosis" should be heard of by everyone, which is a more serious and potentially fatal disease in chronic liver disease.
However, it is not a lesion that appears independently on the liver, before cirrhosis, the patient already has one or more liver diseases, such as alcoholic hepatitis, viral hepatitis, etc., as the disease continues to develop, eventually causing diffuse liver damage.
After the appearance of cirrhosis, due to the strong compensatory capacity of the liver, there are basically no obvious symptoms in the early stage of cirrhosis.
However, with the continuous development of cirrhosis, there will be obvious liver function damage and portal hypertension in the later stage, which will induce a series of complications, and patients will even die due to gastrointestinal hemorrhage, hepatic encephalopathy, cancer and other problems.
Therefore, once the diagnosis of cirrhosis is confirmed, the patient needs to cooperate with the doctor to actively carry out treatment and start to adjust from the diet, especially the following types of foods, which are not suitable for patients with cirrhosis:
1, high-salt food: the main component of salt is sodium chloride, after entering the body will precipitate sodium ions and chloride ions two components.
In patients who have developed cirrhosis, they may have problems such as portal hypertension and intraperitoneal effusion.
The intake of a large amount of sodium salt will lead to water and sodium imbalance and plasma osmolality imbalance, which is not only not conducive to disease control, but also aggravates the development of the disease.
Therefore, patients with cirrhosis of the liver should strictly control the intake of salt, avoid eating pickled foods or processed meat, and try to keep the original taste of food when cooking, and reduce the addition of condiments;
2, alcoholic beverages: as mentioned at the beginning of the article, cirrhosis is developed from a variety of chronic liver diseases, including alcoholic liver damage.
This is so because the liver is the organ that metabolizes alcohol, and 95% of the alcohol that enters the body is metabolized in the liver.
However, in the process of alcohol metabolism, both ethanol itself and its metabolite acetaldehyde can cause damage to liver cells.
If cirrhosis of the liver has occurred and there is still no abstinence from alcohol, it is undoubtedly aggravating the development of liver damage and even increasing the possibility of cancer;
3. Hard food: Cirrhosis of the liver in the process of continuous development may be accompanied by various complications, especially the impact on the digestive tract, easy to be combined with gastric varicose veins, gastrointestinal congestion and other problems.
If the patient eats too rough and hard food at this time, it is easy to scratch the veins, resulting in bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract.
What is more frightening is that cirrhosis affects the ability of the liver to synthesize coagulation factors, so the coagulation function of patients is often relatively poor, the bleeding is not easy to stop, and there is a risk of blood loss;
4. High-protein foods: After cirrhosis develops to decompensation, doctors usually require patients to strictly limit protein intake.
The reason for this is that after excess protein enters the human body, toxic substances cannot be directly metabolized and discharged from the liver, and a large amount of ammonia is constantly accumulated in the body, which in turn affects the energy metabolism of the brain, and eventually leads to the emergence of hepatic encephalopathy. Therefore, patients should strictly follow the doctor's requirements and limit the intake of protein.
Finally, I would like to remind everyone that going to the stage of cirrhosis is not necessarily an equal to absolute and death. In fact, in the early stages of cirrhosis, if the patient can actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, the disease may also be reversed.
Even if it enters the decompensation period, through treatment, it can effectively prolong the patient's life, so the patient should relax his mentality, and it is most important to cooperate with the treatment.