The symptom types of cholecystitis are very common clinically, and the incidence rate in our country is very high. Once the symptoms occur, they often cause a lot of pain to the patients, especially the resulting symptoms. It is unbearable for patients. Patients with cholecystitis should pay attention to their diet in daily life, especially the choice of fruits.

What not to eat for cholecystitis

Diet for cholecystitis can play an auxiliary treatment role, but unscientific diet can also affect the condition, especially some taboo foods.

1. Acidic foods: Vinegar, bayberry, hawthorn, lemon and other acidic foods can stimulate the secretion of cholecystin in the stomach and duodenum, causing gallbladder contraction and inducing biliary colic.

2. Food that is too cold or hot: food that is too hot or soup, food that is too cold, such as ice cream, iced drinks, iced coffee, and food just taken out of the refrigerator, will cause biliary tract disease after ingestion. Spasm of the sphincter, causing dull pain or cramping in the gallbladder area. Therefore, patients with gallbladder disease should avoid foods that are too cold or too hot.

3. Sugar: Sugar can stimulate the pancreatic β-cells to secrete insulin. Insulin can increase cholesterol, causing the cholesterol in bile to become supersaturated and promote the formation of gallstones.

4. Spicy and irritating foods: Spicy and irritating foods such as wine, tea, coffee, chili, mustard, pepper, Sichuan pepper, etc. can cause an increase in gastric and duodenal secretions and increase cholecystokinin production. Increased levels can lead to spasm of the bile duct and sphincter, blocking bile discharge and inducing biliary colic, so the above foods should be avoided.

What to eat for cholecystitis

A scientific diet can help us improve the symptoms of cholecystitis, so diet therapy is a very good auxiliary treatment without worrying about side effects.

Patients with cholecystitis should eat a light, easy-to-digest, low-salt and low-fat diet, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, eat less high-cholesterol foods, and avoid raw, cold, spicy, thick and greasy foods.

1. Liver qi stagnation. It is advisable to eat products that soothe the liver and relieve depression, such as radish, kumquat, hawthorn, sword beans, Chinese cabbage, celery, wax gourd, fennel, orange, etc. Dietary prescription: pepper, amomum tripe (pepper, amomum villosum, ginger, jujube, pork tripe).

2. Damp-heat in liver and gallbladder. It is advisable to eat products that can clear away gallbladder and promote dampness, such as plum meat, poria, lotus seeds, seaweed, kelp, etc. Therapeutic Recipe: Money Bamboo Leaf Porridge.

3. Hepatobiliary sepsis. It is advisable to eat products that clear away heat, promote dampness and detoxify, such as mung beans, shepherd's purse, sorghum, celery, amaranth, etc. Therapeutic Recipe: Boil or stir-fry clam meat.

4. Infestation of roundworms. It is advisable to eat ebony plums to help soothe and relieve pain, or eat pumpkin raw.

Fruits that should not be eaten for patients with cholecystitis

1. It is not advisable to eat too much acidic fruits. Acidic fruits such as bayberries, plums, plums, etc. contain acidic substances that are not easily decomposed by oxidation and can easily lead to acidity in the body. Excessive consumption of acid can easily aggravate gallbladder inflammation and induce biliary colic.

2. Patients with cholecystitis should not eat too much persimmons. Persimmons are cold in nature and sticky in nature, causing Qi to sink, which can easily damage the Qi of the liver and gallbladder. In addition, eating persimmons on an empty stomach or after eating crabs can easily cause persimmon stones. Therefore, patients with cholecystitis, gastritis, spleen and stomach deficiency, etc. should not eat it.

3. It is not advisable to eat too much durian.

Although durian has a very good tonic effect, it is hot and stagnant in nature, and can easily produce dampness and help heat. Patients with cholecystitis, especially in the acute stage, have damp and hot stagnant fire. Eating durian is like "adding fuel to the fire", thus causing cholecystitis. Patients should not eat too much durian.