Pumpkin is a seasonal food recently. Cooking porridge with pumpkin, steaming directly, is sweet and soft, and can also produce a strong sense of fullness. So many people like to eat. Aunt Zhang, who lives in the countryside, also harvested a lot of pumpkins. After listening to the doctor's advice that pumpkins can be eaten properly, she didn't care much. She just eats some pumpkins when she is free, and she doesn't feel anything wrong with her health. She just thought it was ordinary coarse grains.

Later, in the next review, the patients chatted with each other, but she found that one patient's liver disease worsened because he often ate pumpkins. Scared her out of eating any more. People with liver disease often eat pumpkins. Is it good or bad? How to eat pumpkin, but liver disease is aggravated?

In the eyes of western medicine, pumpkin is rich in vitamins, zinc and carotene, which can help the human body to relax bowels, improve eyesight and beautify. Patients with liver disease can really eat some pumpkins. Pectin can also help repair gastrointestinal mucosa, promote the body to excrete toxins as soon as possible, and reduce the burden on the stomach. Chinese medicine also believes that pumpkin can tonify the middle energizer, diminish inflammation and relieve pain, and induce diuresis. Patients with liver disease can indeed eat properly.

It stands to reason that it is no big deal for a hepatitis B patient like Aunt Zhang to eat some pumpkins properly. Why do people have problems eating it? After in-depth understanding, the key to the problem was found.

In both cases, patients with liver disease had better eat less pumpkin.

In the first case, when liver disease aggravates and affects liver function, eat less pumpkin.

Pectin and dietary fiber in pumpkin can really help human metabolism and alleviate the absorption of sugar and lipid in intestine. However, if you eat too many pumpkins, you may also eat too much sugar. These sugars will accumulate in the human body and be converted into intrahepatic fat through the liver, which will promote the occurrence of fatty liver.

Moreover, eating too much pumpkin will easily increase the risk of bloating and beriberi, and it will also increase the risk of jaundice because of carotene.

If you have liver ascites, abnormal liver function and other problems, you should still eat less pumpkin, and it is best not to eat pumpkin as a meal.

In the second case, all patients with liver disease should not eat moldy pumpkins and pumpkin seeds.

Pumpkin is a storable food in the north, but it is difficult to eat a big pumpkin at once after cutting. The rest can only be left at home for next time. Once the pumpkin is improperly preserved, or exposed to steam and hot air, it is prone to mildew and rot.

Many people are reluctant to give up small money, so they will cut off the spoiled part with a knife and eat the rest. But from the health point of view, after the pumpkin is moldy or rotten, mold may have appeared inside, which is not only visible to the naked eye, but also the undamaged parts and pumpkin seeds may have been stained with mold.

If you have liver disease, or your liver is not very good, don't eat this pumpkin so as not to increase the metabolic burden of the liver.

In the diet of liver disease, some foods should be eaten as little as possible.

I believe that many people know to give up drinking and stay away from cigarettes, barbecues and other things that may irritate the liver after being diagnosed with liver disease. However, there are still some hidden foods on the table that are not suitable for patients with liver disease. Ignoring them may also affect the treatment of liver diseases and damage the liver.

① Uncooked tomatoes

In the north, there are iron persimmons. The color of this variety is cyan, and some are deep purple. This kind of tomato can be eaten directly. But if you don't understand, you may buy immature tomatoes, which look blue but taste tasteless.

This undercooked tomato may contain solanine. Solanine, a toxic substance, may also exist in improperly germinated potatoes. For patients with liver disease, eating such tomatoes and potatoes often requires the liver to constantly metabolize toxins, which may cause damage to the liver.

② Tremella and auricularia auricula have been soaked for a long time.

Dry goods such as fungus and tremella should be soaked in water before eating, but some people soak their hair one day in advance to save trouble. Soaking in water for a long time is easy to breed bacteria, such as rice yeast acid and aflatoxin, which may cause direct damage to liver cells and even accelerate the development of liver disease.

③ Bitter, moldy and rotten food.

Although it has been repeatedly stressed that food cannot be eaten after deterioration, some people are reluctant to waste it, cutting off the bad parts of food and eating the rest. But what I want to say is that moldy food can't be eaten because there are carcinogens such as aflatoxin.

This substance will not disappear due to high temperature heating, and it is difficult to completely remove this carcinogen by ordinary means. Long-term exposure to this substance, even a small amount, may increase the risk of cancer, directly stimulate the liver, and have a "fatal" impact on patients with liver disease.

The daily diet of patients with liver disease should follow the following principles: eat more fresh fruits and vegetables to promote liver metabolism; Supplementing high-quality protein can provide raw materials for hepatocyte repair and relieve liver disease. Reducing the intake of high-fat and high-salt diet can also reduce the risk of liver disease deterioration and reduce the burden of liver metabolism.