How to keep healthy in winter for patients with chronic liver disease? 1, prevent drinking
In the cold winter, many people will warm up by drinking hard liquor, and then eat it mixed with spicy and greasy food. Although the taste is refreshing for a while, it will cause unexpected damage to the liver. 90% of alcohol entering the body is metabolized in the liver, and alcohol can immediately act on liver cells, making them turn or shrink, thus aggravating the disease. Therefore, patients with liver cirrhosis need to ensure that they do not touch alcohol in winter.
2. Eat more hot and humid food.
In order to keep warm in cold winter, you should eat more hot and humid foods, such as melon, sweet almond, red dates or chestnuts, and try to avoid spicy foods such as leeks, fragrant lai, garlic and ginger slices. You can also eat more vegetables, fruits and beans, such as red raisins, carrots, tremella, pure honey, small red beans and tomatoes. It can achieve the actual effect of moistening lung, relieving cough and nourishing yin, and improve liver function.
Don't overeat and eat barbecue.
Generally everyone has a good appetite in winter, but don't overeat. You should only eat for 7-8 minutes every meal to prevent barbecue. You can eat more foods containing protein in winter, such as eggs, dairy products and lean pork. , can increase your resistance and immunity, and is conducive to the repair and reconstruction of liver cells.
4. Eat less high-fat food
The combination of high-fat diet will promote the accumulation of human fat around the liver, endanger the production of liver glycogen, and thus reduce liver function. Adults' daily intake of vegetable oil should not exceed 25mL, so as to avoid eating fatty, greasy and cholesterol-rich foods. Many people like to eat mala Tang or string incense in winter, but it will damage the gastric mucosa and esophageal mucosa, especially those with chronic hepatitis and esophageal varices. After eating mala Tang, it may cause massive bleeding in the digestive tract, which is serious and life-threatening.
5. Ensure adequate sleep quality.
Poor rest or staying up late often will reduce the immune ability, promote the dysfunction of green plants, endanger the repair of liver cells, and then cause liver fire, so sleep at least 7~8 hours a day to prevent staying up late often.
6. Keep the circulation of indoor air items.
Don't close the doors and windows in winter. We must ensure indoor air quality, commodity circulation and indoor ventilation on time. At the same time, we should also take good care of ourselves to prevent colds from attacking the body, especially the abdominal cavity, the top of our head and our feet.
7. Maintain a stable mood
There are many extreme weather and changeable temperatures in winter, which will do harm to everyone's physiology and psychology. Therefore, we must adjust our mental state, actively discourage all kinds of negative emotional stimuli, keep a calm mind, and laugh when things happen. In addition, we should communicate with our good friends and take part in outdoor sports to vent our emotions.
Warm reminder
In the cold winter, many patients with liver cirrhosis don't want to go to the hospital for medical treatment, so they go to the pharmacy to buy medicine independently, which not only delays the best treatment time, but also produces drug resistance because of indiscriminate medication, which improves the difficulty coefficient of diagnosis and treatment. Patients with liver cirrhosis need to maintain a stable lifestyle, take medicine strictly according to the doctor's advice, don't use tonics or health care products indiscriminately, and don't believe in simple folk remedies and ancestral secret recipes. Patients with ascites due to liver cirrhosis should not eat too many dried fruits and greasy foods in winter, such as peanuts and sunflower seeds. The above food is not smooth, greasy and a little hard, and it is very easy to cut varicose veins, thus causing massive bleeding in the digestive tract.