What to eat
Regardless of what you plan, the value of any food is preserved only when baking or boiling, but not when frying. And feeding patients who have liver problems generally should rule out fried foods, since the combination of fried fats can create an increased workload even for the work of a healthy organ. And many patients know that fatty food is not useful, as it is a strong mechanical blow to the liver and gall bladder: too fatty food leads to a strong reduction of the gallbladder and a powerful salvo ejection of bile, and if there are stones, everything can end in hospital bed. The same applies to too acidic, spicy food (pickles, marinades), heavy foods for digestion (shish kebabs, etc.).
First of all, all hepatic patients need to exclude from the diet food with heavy fats. There are a lot of them in pork and mutton fat, as fats are processed by bile, and with liver damage it is not produced enough. As a result, unprocessed metabolic products exacerbate the liver, all of which are often accompanied by various pain symptoms. And here, on the contrary, it is very useful, so it is vegetable oils. Their digestion in the body is much easier, besides they have choleretic effect. However, if a person suffers from urolithiasis, then vegetable oils should also be treated with caution. After all, the consumption of oil in quantities greater than 2-3 spoons at a time, can strengthen and accelerate the movement of stones, which causes colic.
Approximately on the border of harmful and useful for the liver fats are butter and sour cream. They are as neutral as possible. But here again it is important to remember the norm. And you need to avoid different margarines, since they are a product of artificial origin and contribute to creating an additional burden on the liver.
What you can not eat
With various problems with the liver, dishes with garlic, onions, horseradish, mustard, radish, radish are not useful - they contain essential oils that have the strongest irritating effect, cause spasms in the smooth muscles of the liver and attacks of colic. The same effect is also provided by various spices: various peppers, curry, etc. There are harmless, even useful condiments for liver patients - celery, coriander, dill and parsley. But even with them, if you have problems with the liver, you need to be very careful.
The cause of liver diseases is in ourselves
Diseases of the liver occur with irregular, irregular nutrition and when it is overloaded with various harmful substances. And this is not only alcohol, although it certainly leads in this sad list - it can be drugs that you take constantly, or all kinds of varnishes, paints, glue, gasoline, the vapors of which you breathe in the nature of your activity. This is what is contained in cigarettes that you smoke (even if you are a passive smoker - you are damaging the liver). This is a series of toxins that are produced in the tissues of the intestinal patient, and many artificial food additives that enter the body in the process of nutrition. And there are special "fighters" aiming at destroying the niche of the liver - these are various kinds of viral hepatitis and other nonspecific viruses. They are able to destroy the cells of our body, and these decay products are filtered by the same long-suffering liver. The complex of all these influences causes hepatitis (inflammation) and steatosis (accumulation of fat in the hepatic cells).
Steatosis
Such a disease, like steatosis, can occur with an excess of fatty foods, especially animal origin - in this case, fats simply do not have time to completely break down and be recycled, and first they accumulate in the liver cells, and then there are not enough places in them, fill the intercellular space. Most often this process affects people who are overweight. Naturally, such a liver can not work normally, and the pathological process is gaining momentum. There is a sharp increase in cholesterol, blood pressure. With all this, the disease does not give any symptoms, the liver can not hurt, since it almost lacks nerve endings. If you experience discomfort in the right hypochondrium, then it is pain in the gallbladder. It is necessary to immediately consult a gastroenterologist - maybe there is still hope that this very bubble can be cured without surgery. Ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging help to detect steatosis.
Prevention of steatosis consists in eliminating the influence of toxic factors, timely treatment of diabetes mellitus (if any), a properly balanced diet, in the effective fight against chronic diseases of the digestive system. Patients who have been taking hormones for a long time need to take drugs that improve liver function for prevention.
Cirrhosis - "affectionate killer"
Cirrhosis of the liver is the result of diseases such as hepatitis B and C, and in general any negative toxic effects on the liver, for example, alcohol consumption. With cirrhosis, the connective tissue of the liver grows, replacing and replacing the working cells of the liver. This fatal disease progresses slowly: its symptoms appear in humans only a few years after the onset of the pathological process.
In general, the liver has a high capacity for recovery, but with cirrhosis, the blood supply to the liver cells is disturbed by the overgrown connective tissue, and they are no longer able to cope with their functions, as before.
Cirrhosis is diagnosed, as a rule, already with the development of complications. Meanwhile, if the disease is detected at the initial stage, the patient's quality and life expectancy can be significantly increased with the help of qualified medical care.