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Food ... And patients with liver disease

Food ... And patients with liver disease

Food is made up of proteins and fats, and carbohydrates (the primary energy source for humans), vitamins and minerals .. And vitamins are two types: type dissolves in water, such as vitamin B, and the other dissolves in fat, such as vitamin A, D, E, K, and vitamin K is especially important in the process of configuring blood clot, and minerals such as magnesium (important in interactions energy), copper, chromium and selenium ( important to oxidized glutathione), iodine, iron, manganese and zinc (important for different enzymes in the body for the various vital processes).


Signs of nutritional deficiency is common among patients with liver disease for the following reasons:
Lack of quantity and quality of food, and lack of food stocks different in the body and increase the need for food and also a lack of bile salts and food intolerance, which contain fat and vitamins dissolved in fat in addition to the lack of blood proteins, which result in a leak of water in the wall of the small intestine and thus the inability intestine to absorb food.
And also leads vitamin K deficiency bleeding due this shortfall to the inability to absorption (responds to inject vitamin K), and the inability to synthesis (not responding for injection), and the lack of quantitative must be taken of the vitamin in food (this can be offset for i saliva mouth ).He notes in patients with chronic liver disease and a lack of weight and muscle atrophy due to the use of the body and its dependence on muscle proteins in the synthesis of the energy needed for life as a result of lack of albumin and glucose in the body. Therefore the patient should eat 1 gram protein per day and it should be noted that red meat contains 20% by weight protein
Are advised to strengthen patient liver diet by adding calcium, vitamin A, D, E, K and fat food


Change some of the concepts related to patients with liver disease diet:
For acute hepatitisYou should eat all the foods that the patient can be dealt with without the hassles, and foods that contain adequate amounts of protein and carbohydrates is a healthy food and the importance of eating large amounts of honey and sugars.
For chronic hepatitisThere are no contraindications to eat proteins and patients should be encouraged to eat plant and animal proteins with food contains other important elements.

In patients with liver disease in general should be given to power and green vegetables incomplete Alzbek (congratulate × congratulate) and fruit where research has demonstrated the presence of antioxidants in these foods that help the body fight diseases of the liver, food is made of a large amount of vegetables and fruit, and a little fat can reduces the incidence of liver tumors, as well as it is preferable to use olive oil and the lack of fungi which may secrete a substance aflatoxin, which may help to hepatic tumor incidence.
· Fast fat, alcohol and frequent salt wake.

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