Liver cancer is a very serious disease, and many friends are very afraid of suffering from liver cancer. Liver cancer has a great impact on people's health, so we should pay attention to preventing liver cancer in our daily lives. If we find that we have symptoms of liver cancer, we must seek medical treatment in time. So what are the causes of liver cancer? What should you pay attention to in your liver cancer diet?
1. What are the causes of liver cancer?
1. One of the causes of liver cancer is unclean drinking water. To prevent liver cancer, we need to improve drinking water conditions. It has been reported in the news that many mountainous areas contain a large amount of carcinogens due to lack of water and low water quality in mountainous areas. As a result, every person who exists has liver cancer. This is the Liver Cancer Village.
2. There are other methods to prevent liver cancer, such as monitoring high-risk groups.
3. Hepatitis B is an important cause of liver cancer.
4. People with a long-term history of alcoholism and clinical manifestations of chronic liver disease, as well as patients with diagnosed liver cirrhosis, are all high-risk groups for late-stage liver cancer. Such people should preferably not go to public places. to avoid spreading the disease to people close to you.
2. What should be paid attention to in the diet of liver cancer
The dietary principles for liver cancer patients are: low fat, high protein, easy to digest, eat less fried foods, and avoid irritating and plant fiber Eat more food to avoid causing esophageal or gastric vein rupture and bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis; liver cancer patients should eat regularly, quantitatively, and eat small meals frequently to reduce the burden on the gastrointestinal tract; they should keep their stools smooth. If liver cancer patients are constipated, You can eat fiber-rich foods or drink some intestinal-friendly honey. What should we pay attention to in the diet for liver cancer?
The liver function of patients with liver cancer is poor, which easily affects nearby tissues and organs, and is easy to cause indigestion. Therefore, the diet for liver cancer should avoid rough, hard and crude fiber foods. Patients should pay special attention to their diet. Food should be soft, rotten, and easy to digest. Green vegetables must be chopped and boiled before they can be eaten. In addition, you should chew your food slowly, and those with esophageal varicose veins should avoid foods with bone spurs such as chicken, fish, and ribs.
Liver cancer patients should avoid eating spicy and irritating foods such as peppers, mustard, and peppercorns. Spicy and irritating foods: Spicy and irritating foods can easily irritate the gastric mucosa and induce gastrointestinal reactions. Alcohol is mainly metabolized and detoxified by the liver. However, in liver cancer, the liver function is weak, and its metabolism and detoxification functions are no longer as good as before. Drinking alcohol at this time will only increase the burden on the liver and worsen the condition, so patients with liver cancer should avoid drinking alcohol.
It is also necessary to adjust the diet according to the actual situation of the patient. Patients with fever should drink more water to facilitate the dissipation of heat; patients with liver cancer who vomit frequently should fast temporarily to avoid food irritating the stomach and increasing the The frequency of vomiting consumes energy; for liver cancer patients with ascites, sodium intake should be limited and a low-salt or no-salt diet should be given.
Only by recognizing the factors that lead to liver cancer can we take corresponding preventive measures to avoid or minimize the occurrence of these factors and stay away from the disease. Finally, I wish you good health.
3. What are the dangers of liver cancer?
1. Gastrointestinal symptoms: decreased appetite, fullness in the upper abdomen after meals. Warmth, indigestion, nausea, diarrhea, etc. are common digestive tract symptoms of liver cancer.
2. Acute abdomen: rupture of cancer nodules usually causes pain in the liver area. There is obvious tenderness in the liver area during physical examination, which is a symptom of liver capsule irritation. After the cancer nodule ruptures, some patients present with acute abdominal pain, accompanied by symptoms of peritoneal irritation, which can easily be misdiagnosed as acute peritonitis. Abdominal pain caused by rupture of cancerous nodules is usually accompanied by a drop in blood pressure or even shock, which is different from general acute peritonitis.
3. Symptoms of acute abdominal pain: After the cancer nodule ruptures, some patients present with acute abdominal pain, accompanied by symptoms of peritoneal irritation, which can easily be misdiagnosed as acute peritonitis. Abdominal pain caused by rupture of cancerous nodules is usually accompanied by a drop in blood pressure or even shock. This is a relatively obvious harm caused by liver cancer to the human body.
4. Lower limb edema in the middle and late stages of liver cancer: Patients with liver cancer accompanied by ascites often have lower limb edema. In mild cases, it occurs in the ankles, and in severe cases, it can spread to the entire lower limbs. The main reason is that ascites compresses the veins of the lower limbs or is blocked by tumor thrombus, which blocks venous return. Mild edema can also be caused by low plasma albumin.
5. Bleeding tendency in late stage of liver cancer: Patients with liver cancer often have bleeding tendency such as gum bleeding and subcutaneous ecchymosis.
Gastrointestinal bleeding is also common, mainly due to esophageal and gastric varices caused by portal hypertension. In fact, gastrointestinal bleeding is also one of the main causes of death in patients with advanced liver cancer.