1, can cirrhosis be contagious?
Whether cirrhosis is contagious depends on the cause. It can be said that there are many causes of liver cirrhosis in clinic, which cannot be generalized. If viral hepatitis causes diffuse damage, proliferation and necrosis of the liver, it is contagious, mainly through blood, vertical transmission from mother to child and sexual transmission.
However, the blood and body fluids of patients with liver cirrhosis may contain different amounts of hepatitis virus and different replication degrees, so it is necessary to determine the infectivity by detecting the hepatitis B virus load. If cirrhosis is caused by alcoholic hepatitis, fatty liver disease, drug-induced liver disease and autoimmune disease, it is not contagious and there is no need to worry about the possibility of infection.
2. How long can cirrhosis live?
1, generally speaking, early cirrhosis and compensatory cirrhosis can be asymptomatic, with symptoms such as loss of appetite, abdominal discomfort, hepatosplenomegaly, liver palm and spider nevus. At this time, active treatment, as long as the right medicine is given, can not only alleviate the condition, but even reverse the recovery, and naturally the life span of normal people is the same.
2. For decompensated cirrhosis, the situation is not so optimistic. In addition to the above symptoms, ascites, edema and low fever may also occur. At this time, even if treatment is carried out, it is impossible to achieve the effect of cure, and it can only delay the development of the disease. The main cause of death in patients with liver cirrhosis is complications. Therefore, taking preventive measures, preventing complications and paying attention to diet aftercare can greatly prolong the life of patients. It can be seen that how long liver cirrhosis can live depends on its own efforts.
3. Dietary therapy for liver cirrhosis
Patients with liver cirrhosis can receive good curative effect when they are actively treated with diet therapy.
(1) Misgurnus anguillicaudatus stewed tofu
Ingredients: 500g loach, 250g tofu.
Method: remove impurities from loach, wash it, add water and salt to stew until it is five-cooked, and add tofu to stew until it is cooked.
Efficacy: diuresis and diuresis; It is effective for ascites due to liver cirrhosis and jaundice.
(2) malt hawthorn beverage
Ingredients: stir-fried malt 15g, stir-fried hawthorn 15g, and brown sugar.
Method: Boil malt and hawthorn with water, remove residue to get juice, and add brown sugar.
Efficacy: invigorating spleen and appetizing, softening and resolving hard mass; It has therapeutic effect on liver cirrhosis and restless sleep.
(3) fennel, dried tangerine peel and eggs
Ingredients: fennel 10g, dried tangerine peel 10g, some eggs.
Methods: Boil the ingredients in water for about 10 minute, break the eggshell, continue to stew for half an hour on low heat, and eat eggs 1 piece, once a day 1 time.
Efficacy: It can warm liver and regulate qi, tonify deficiency and relieve pain. It is suitable for patients with liver cirrhosis with weak constitution and swelling and pain in liver area.
(4) Bamboo Shoot Malan Decoction
Materials: bamboo shoots150g, Malantou 250g.
Methods: Boil the ingredients with water, season, drink soup and spit out dregs, once a day/kloc-0.
Efficacy: Suitable for damp-heat ascites due to liver cirrhosis.
4, patients with liver cirrhosis taboo
1, to avoid fatigue
Chinese medicine believes that blood is distributed in the limbs when people exercise, and blood belongs to the liver when people lie down. Therefore, patients with cirrhosis should rest more. Bed rest can increase the blood supply to the liver, reduce the energy required for liver metabolism, be beneficial to the nutrition and regeneration of liver cells, and promote the stability of diseases. If you can't get enough rest and overwork, your liver cells will be necrotic, which will aggravate your condition.
2, avoid alcohol and tobacco
Patients with liver cirrhosis must avoid alcohol and tobacco. If they continue to smoke and drink, it will easily lead to changes in the condition of liver cirrhosis and endanger their lives. Because alcohol has a direct effect on liver cells, more than 90% of alcohol components need to be metabolized in the liver. After liver cirrhosis, the metabolic capacity of the liver becomes worse, and drinking alcohol will damage liver cells, leading to the deterioration of the disease. In addition, nicotine contained in cigarettes will constrict blood vessels, and smoking will reduce the blood supply to the liver, affect the nutrition of the liver, which is not conducive to the stability of liver cirrhosis.
3. People who eat too much in protein.
Eating more protein in patients with liver cirrhosis can not only increase the content of plasma protein, prevent or reduce the fatty infiltration of liver, but also promote the recovery and regeneration of liver tissue. However, if you eat too much protein for three meals a day, there will be side effects. Because excessive protein produces too much ammonia in the body, the liver can't convert it into non-toxic substances and excrete it, and the final result can lead to hepatic coma.
4. Excessive sugar
During liver cirrhosis, liver cells are seriously damaged, and the function of the liver to store monosaccharides as glycogen and convert some monosaccharides into fat has been significantly reduced. At this time, if patients eat a lot of sugar for a long time, hepatic diabetes and fatty liver will appear, and the treatment of liver cirrhosis will be more difficult.
Step 5 eat spicy food
In liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension will cause portal vein dilatation of lower esophagus, gastric fundus and liver, often accompanied by gastric mucosal erosion and ulcer. If the patient eats spicy food such as pepper again, it will cause gastric mucosal damage and induce upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
6. Excessive salt
The liver of patients with liver cirrhosis destroyed the function of antidiuretic, so the urine volume decreased and salt remained in the body. In addition, the decrease of plasma protein is prone to edema or ascites. Therefore, patients with liver cirrhosis should strictly control the intake of salt.
7. Taking drugs
Due to the decline of liver function in cirrhosis, the detoxification process of drugs in the liver is greatly slowed down, and drugs can accumulate in the body, especially anesthetics and sedatives, which not only have direct toxic effects on the liver, but also induce hepatic coma. Therefore, it is necessary to use drugs as little as possible, and the drugs used must be used only when necessary.
8. Eat hard food
Because of portal hypertension due to liver cirrhosis, the blood vessels at the lower end of esophagus and the bottom of stomach become thicker and thinner. If coarse food is not chewed slowly and swallowed into the stomach, it may puncture or scratch the blood vessels and cause massive bleeding. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is one of the common complications and causes of death in patients with liver cirrhosis, so we must not be careless.
9. Sex life
Patients with liver cirrhosis should try to avoid sexual life, because sexual life consumes energy and physical strength, which will aggravate the deterioration of the disease and is not conducive to the recovery of the disease. If overindulgence, it will also bring great harm to the patients themselves, which may aggravate the condition and even cause liver failure.
10 to avoid pessimism.
In addition to what we often say, rage is easy to damage the liver, and long-term bad mood, depression, sadness and other bad emotions can also cause liver damage. Chinese medicine says that long-term depression and anger can lead to stagnation of liver qi. In western medicine theory, when people are angry, they will secrete a substance called "catecholamine", which will increase the toxins in liver cells. Therefore, in order to protect the liver, patients with liver cirrhosis should gradually develop an optimistic and open-minded attitude, strengthen their confidence in overcoming the disease, and not be pessimistic.