Patient's question:
My uncle had been experiencing constant dizziness for a while. Besides abdominal pain, he also ate very little. Even when I prepared light meals for him, he couldn't eat them and always felt nauseous and like vomiting. I accompanied him to the hospital for a check-up, and the result was liver cirrhosis. Now, when he craves many spicy dishes, he doesn't know that he needs to avoid certain foods due to his condition.Doctor's answer:
Because patients with cirrhosis are relatively picky about their daily diet and prone to anorexia and aversion to greasy foods, it is important to pay attention to avoiding strongly seasoned foods, high-purine foods, fried, stir-fried, and grilled meats, etc., to prevent increasing the pressure on the digestive system of cirrhosis patients.Consuming high-purine foods; since purine metabolism is carried out in the liver, its metabolites, uric acid, are excreted by the kidneys. Both the decomposition and metabolism of purines require the heart to supply a sufficient amount of blood. However, in cirrhosis, the functions of the heart, liver, and kidneys are all weakened. Increasing the pressure on these three organs necessitates avoiding high-purine foods, such as pork liver, pork kidneys, spinach, soybeans, peas, and cowpeas.