What food should gallstone patients eat?
1. Drinking water regularly and quantitatively can form the habit of drinking water, dilute urine, reduce the concentration of crystals in urine, and flush the urinary tract, which is conducive to preventing the formation of stones and promoting the discharge of urinary stones.
2. Eat more choleretic vegetables, such as green vegetables, bamboo shoots, onions, tomatoes, corn, green peppers, pumpkins, carrots, lotus roots, etc., which have different degrees of stone dissolution. Eating more of these foods is beneficial to prevent the formation of gallstones.
3. Eat breakfast on time. Some people don't eat breakfast. After a night of fasting, bile secretion decreases, while cholesterol content remains unchanged, forming high cholesterol bile, which is easy to form stones in the long run.
4. Eat more foods rich in cellulose. Foods containing more cellulose can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, stimulate bile to flow into intestinal cavity and prevent cholestasis. Foods containing more cellulose include vegetables, fruits and coarse grains.