For patients with liver disease, it is important to follow a strict diet of nutritionally balanced hiking, adequate protein and vitamin intake, and the most important dietary principle should be to control salt intake.
If you have liver disease, why should you control your salt intake? Adhering to salt restriction has 4 functions.
1. Maintain the normal function balance of the body
For patients with liver disease, especially hepatitis B patients, they should eat less foods high in salt in their daily life, such as pickles, pickled fish and other foods.
According to research, when the salt content of the food eaten every day is high, people's salt intake will increase, and the amount of calcium in the excrement will also increase after the food enters the human body and goes through the body's metabolism.
Eating some foods with more salt on a regular basis will gradually increase the daily loss of calcium in the body, which will lead to a serious lack of calcium in the body in the long run, which is easy to cause osteoporosis. In addition, if you have a habit of eating a high-salt diet, it will also have a certain inhibitory effect on the absorption of calcium.
2. To reduce the burden on the liver
The metabolic function of the liver in patients with liver disease itself will decline, because the liver itself is the largest detoxification organ in the human body, and all kinds of toxins stored in the body need to be excreted from the body by relying on the function of the liver.
When the metabolic function of the liver decreases, if more salt is consumed, the liver will convert the salt into excretion and excrete it in the urine, and when the liver is overloaded, it is difficult to urinate, which can easily cause sodium and water retention.
3. To alleviate the condition
There are many types of liver diseases, some people suffer from liver diseases that require a reduction in salt intake in the diet, while others require an increase in salt intake, such as cirrhosis.
Hepatic ascites is a common phenomenon in people with cirrhosis, which is mainly manifested as an imbalance in intracellular and extracellular water metabolism, and once this condition worsens, it will seriously endanger the patient's life.
Under normal circumstances, patients with hepatic ascites have low blood sodium value, can no longer limit the intake of salt, and must appropriately increase the intake of some salt to maintain the sodium in the body within the normal range, so as to promote the body's urination function and relieve the symptoms of excessive ascites.
4. Avoid other complications
Liver disease normally requires strict control of salt intake in the body, usually in patients with severe or advanced liver disease.
Because of advanced liver diseases such as liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, it is easy for patients to have some complications, among which liver ascites is a very serious complication of liver disease, if you are not careful, a little carelessness will endanger the life and health of patients.
If too much salt is ingested and cannot be excreted in time, prolonged accumulation can block the circulatory system, resulting in the formation of ascites with fluid in the cavity.
In summary, patients with liver disease need to strictly control the intake of salt in their daily life, which is also a very important dietary principle for patients with liver disease, and reasonable and healthy eating habits can help improve the condition of patients with liver disease, improve the activity of liver cells, and improve the stability of the liver.