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Is garlic the "prompt for life" of liver disease? Advice: Nourish the liver, these 7 kinds of food, please show mercy

The liver is known as the "dumb organ". Because the liver has no "pain nerve", the lesion is not painful or itchy. The liver is very hard work because drugs provide nutrients to the body and expel toxins and waste.

By janePublished 3 years ago 7 min read

The liver is known as the "dumb organ". Because the liver has no "pain nerve", the lesion is not painful or itchy. The liver is very hard work because drugs provide nutrients to the body and expel toxins and waste.

The liver filters your body's blood roughly every three minutes, 20 times an hour, and 480 times a day. However, many people neglect to take care of the liver, which eventually leads to cirrhosis and even liver cancer.

Early signs of liver disease

1, digestive tract manifestations: the most common liver symptoms, such as nausea, aversion to greasy, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.

2, fatigue: liver tissue lesions cause liver cell sugar metabolism disorders, reduce the production and storage of sugar, sugar is the main source of human energy, energy shortage will appear fatigue performance.

3. Dull complexion: Different from the sun-tanned skin, the face is dull and without gloss. Other serious dark circles under the eyes are early symptoms of chronic liver disease patients, most of which are chronic hepatitis B.

4, skin yellowing: in chills, fever, nausea, vomiting, liver pain, extreme fatigue, suddenly appear yellow eyes and skin, indicating acute jaundice hepatitis; If jaundice occurs in patients with chronic hepatitis, the condition is aggravated.

5. Liver discomfort: right upper abdomen and right back discomfort and other symptoms, pain for persistent swelling pain, dull pain or dull pain.

Can liver cancer be "misdiagnosed"?

Liver cancer is generally not misdiagnosed, if diagnosed with liver cancer should promptly cooperate with the doctor for treatment. Liver cancer is a malignant tumor occurring in the liver. The causes of liver cancer are mainly related to chronic infection, cirrhosis, genetic factors, etc. Patients with liver cancer usually have no obvious symptoms in the early stage.

As the tumor continues to increase in size, it will compress the surrounding tissues, causing liver pain and affecting the digestive system, causing nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. Patients with liver cancer can undergo imaging examinations under the guidance of doctors, including ultrasound examination, enhanced CT examination, MRI examination and so on.

The diagnosis of liver cancer can also be made under the guidance of doctors through the comprehensive evaluation of liver cancer marker detection, liver puncture biopsy and other examination results. Liver cancer generally needs to be diagnosed through the above comprehensive examination results, so liver cancer is generally not misdiagnosed.

Patients with liver cancer can be treated with targeted drugs such as Sorafenib toluenesulfonic acid tablets and Envatinib mesylate under the guidance of doctors. Patients eligible for surgery can be treated with liver transplantation.

Is garlic the "prompt for life" of liver disease?

Diagnosed with liver disease, many people understand that the need to actively adjust the diet. The liver is most afraid of harsh foods, so we should eat less spicy foods.

But many people think that ginger or garlic is also a spicy and stimulating condiment, which is very unfriendly to patients with liver disease. Some people even put forward that garlic is the "prompt" of liver disease. Is this statement really credible?

Garlic is just a common food, eating into the body may bring discomfort, but to say that garlic is the death of liver disease, obviously exaggerated description, we do not advocate such a definition.

Garlic is a popular condiment, which contains allicin and allicin to achieve certain antibacterial effects, and also enhance the taste buds.

Garlic although irritant is strong, but as long as a small amount of intake will not bring discomfort to the body, will not promote liver disease.

If you have a strong liver to eat, too much garlic will aggravate the symptoms of physical discomfort, and even make people suffer from nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, so once diagnosed with liver disease, or eat less garlic, but not all can not touch.

Want to protect the liver, it is necessary to actively regulate diet in life to develop good habits, especially the following types of food, I hope you can mouth mercy, may help reduce the risk of liver disease, or even cancer.

Advice: Nourish the liver, these 7 kinds of food, please show mercy

[1] Smoking and drinking

As we all know, drinking hurts the liver, because only 10% of alcohol is excreted from the gastrointestinal tract after entering the human body, and more than 90% is metabolized in the liver. Long-term heavy drinking is more likely to lead to increased burden of liver function, and even induce alcoholic fatty liver cirrhosis and eventually liver cancer.

Smoking can accelerate the progression of liver fibers in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. The total amount of lifetime smoking is closely related to liver inflammation. If smoking and drinking at the same time, more likely to increase the body's metabolic burden, will also lead to more serious liver disease.

[2] Half-cooked food

Studies have found that drunken shrimp, oysters and half-cooked shellfish, often with bacteria and liver fluke parasites, easy to cause acute gastroenteritis, dysentery, may lead to liver disease worsening, and even induce liver coma.

There are a lot of parasites in food. Once they enter the body, they will damage liver function and cause digestive diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to steam and cook food thoroughly before eating.

【3】 Spicy and stimulating food

Today's people taste relatively heavy, like to eat spicy hot pot, spicy Sichuan cuisine, although the feeling is more delicious, but your body has suffered great damage, especially the function of the digestive system.

Spicy stimulating food once ingested, will cause qi deficiency, if suffering from liver disease, will also cause liver injury, more easy to slowly "drag down" the body.

[4] mildew food

Studies have shown that moldy food is often contaminated by mold and produces carcinogenic mycotoxins (such as aflatoxin), which are most harmful to the liver and easily induce liver cancer. In many people's eyes, now that the economic conditions are better, moldy food is far away from us.

It is not advisable for frugal people to remove moldy parts from bread, fruit and other foods and continue eating the rest, as the cytotoxins produced by mold will spread through the food and it is difficult to estimate the extent of the spread by the naked eye.

[5] High-fat foods

The liver is the hub of fat transport. Some of the digested fat goes to the liver, where it is stored as body fat. When hungry, stored body fat is transported to the liver, where it is broken down. Eating too much high-fat greasy food is easy to lead to fat metabolism disorders, so that fat accumulation in the liver to form fatty liver.

In addition to eating less pork belly, fat cattle, fat sheep and other food, eating out, try not to fried, fried, crispy, dry pot, boiled dishes, choose more steamed, boiled, stewed, cold. Ham sausage, bacon, bacon and other processed meat products are also high in fat, try to eat less.

[6] Food containing preservatives

All kinds of convenience food such as instant noodles, sausages, canned food, etc., may be added with preservatives and food coloring, etc. Regular consumption will increase the burden of liver metabolism and detoxification function, especially for patients with poor liver detoxification ability, it will bring adverse effects.

Although people have made many rumors about preservatives, but there are still some people have excessive preservatives, a large amount of intake of the body has no benefit, I hope you can be lenient, don't joke with their health.

[7] Foods containing nitrites

It mainly includes kimchi, pickled pickled cabbage, spoiled leftovers, fermented sour pancakes, salted fish and so on. These foods are rich in nitrates, which, when eaten in large quantities, can be reduced by intestinal bacteria to nitrites, which can be synthesized in the stomach into nitrosamines, a strong chemical carcinogen that can trigger liver cancer.

After food containing nitrite enters the body, it may also react with stomach acid to form strong carcinogenic nitrosamines, which will cause imminent damage to gastric mucosa and increase the risk of cancer.

After removing part of the liver, can you really regenerate?

It can be regenerated by removing part of the liver. The liver has a tremendous regenerative capacity. A large amount of clinical experience has shown that the normal physiological function of the liver can be maintained even if 2/3 of the normal liver is removed, and the weight of the liver before surgery can be gradually restored about 6-8 weeks after removal.

However, due to individual differences, medical conditions, living environment and other objective factors, different people will have different growth rates.

Because of this characteristic of liver, when there are localized lesions in liver, many surgical methods have been derived, such as liver segment, liver lobe, and even extended hemihepatectomy, which can achieve the purpose of radical treatment under the condition of ensuring the safety of patients.

However, prior to liver surgery, liver function should be evaluated to determine whether the extent of excision can be tolerated. Especially for patients with chronic liver disease or cirrhosis, surgical evaluation needs to be more cautious because the regeneration and repair ability of the liver is greatly affected.

The liver is an important organ of the human body. We should develop the habit of loving the liver and protecting the liver at ordinary times. If abnormalities are found, we should go to the hospital in time for diagnosis and treatment under the guidance of professional doctors.

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