What foods should hepatitis B patients avoid?
Many people think that patients with hepatitis B have poor immunity and need to be supplemented with nutrition, so a wide variety of diets are constantly eaten into their stomachs. In fact, patients with hepatitis B are not as nutritious as possible. Patients with hepatitis B have a particular diet. They should eat what they should eat and not eat what they shouldn't. Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has paid great attention to patients' diet, believing that all kinds of foods have different properties of cold and heat, and their smells are different, so they must be chosen because of illness. Then, 1. Avoid foods that are easy to cause allergic reactions in patients with hepatitis B: Most people like to eat seafood such as shrimp and crab with delicious taste and tender meat, but a few people with allergic constitution will have allergic reactions to varying degrees immediately after eating these seafood products, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, flushing, measles, itchy skin and even shock and severe cases. Because the liver is an important organ involved in allergic reactions, liver damage is inevitable. Especially those with original liver disease can aggravate the condition; Or liver disease whose condition has been stabilized may recur again. Therefore, during the onset of hepatitis, seafood should not be eaten. 2. Avoid foods that are easy to aggravate hepatitis B: Each food has different biochemical components, physical and chemical characteristics and pharmacological effects, so it can have different degrees of influence on the body's material metabolism function. For example, patients with acute jaundice hepatitis, if they eat too much greasy food, will cause abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite, etc.: patients with liver disease in recovery period, if they eat too much sugar food, will cause obesity and fatty liver; patients with advanced cirrhosis and severe hepatitis will cause liver coma due to eating a lot of high-protein food; Patients with acidosis, such as a large amount of vinegar, will aggravate their condition; Some patients with liver diseases, after taking tonics such as ginseng, codonopsis pilosula and pilose antler, lead to the increase of alanine aminotransferase or jaundice. Some scholars have analyzed that supplements such as ginseng and codonopsis pilosula can enhance the immune function of cells and stimulate lymphocytes to kill hepatitis virus, but at the same time, they also damage liver cells and cause alanine aminotransferase to increase. Eat less fried and baked food, especially for patients with liver cirrhosis, which can easily lead to hepatic coma or upper gastrointestinal bleeding. 3. Avoid foods that are easy to cause liver damage: It is now clear that the occurrence of liver cancer is related to hepatitis B and C virus infection, aflatoxin and drinking water pollution. There are a lot of aflatoxins in moldy peanuts and corn flour, and more nitrosamines in sauerkraut and pickles. Therefore, eating too much of these foods will easily induce liver cancer, especially those with chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis B virus carriers. Patients with hepatitis should not eat pickled pickles and pickles. Avoid eating preserved eggs: Because lead powder is needed in the production process, frequent eating can easily lead to lead poisoning and calcium deficiency, which will affect the recovery of liver function. Patients with liver cirrhosis have varying degrees of varicose veins due to portal hypertension, mainly esophageal varices, gastric varices and lower esophageal varices. If you don't pay attention to your diet, these veins will easily rupture, cause gastrointestinal bleeding, induce hepatic coma, and even lead to death in severe cases. Therefore, patients with liver cirrhosis should avoid eating hard, prickly or boney meat and vegetables (vegetable food) containing too much plant cellulose (cellulose food), because these foods are easy to hurt varicose veins. In addition, the main component of alcohol is ethanol, which has direct damage to liver cells. Long-term heavy drinking can also cause malnutrition, abnormal metabolism and immune dysfunction, as well as toxic liver injury, such as alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and alcoholic cirrhosis. 4. Avoid foods that tend to reduce the efficacy of certain drugs: Some foods can change or affect the absorption, metabolism and pharmacological effects of drugs after being ingested in the body. For example, calcium, magnesium and iron plasma contained in milk, tofu and other foods can form compounds that are not easily absorbed with tetracycline drugs: scopolamine drugs can relieve vasospasm and improve the microcirculation of the liver, and are commonly used drugs for the treatment of jaundice hepatitis, but tannins in tea can combine with alkaloids in food-like drugs, thus affecting its absorption and reducing its curative effect; Aminopyrine is a commonly used antipyretic, but after ingesting pickles and yellow vegetables with more nitrite, it can combine to form nitrosamines with strong liver cancer-causing ability; In addition, persimmon contains tannic acid, which can combine with iron and affect the absorption of iron. Therefore, people with anemia should not eat persimmon: some foods may also cause diseases when eaten together. For example, citrus contains flavonoids, which can react with sulfoacid in radish to inhibit thyroid function and induce goiter. Therefore, citrus and radish should not eat together. Through the above introduction, I believe that everyone has already understood. Liver disease treatment experts suggest that patients with liver disease should be treated in time so as not to miss the best treatment opportunity. If you have any questions, please consult our experts online.