Diet with hepatitis, its principles and composition of products
Hepatitis is an inflammatory process in the hepatic tissue. Most often there are viral hepatitis A, B, and C. But it is not uncommon to encounter such forms of hepatitis as alcohol and drug. When treating the disease, anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, immunocorrecting, hormonal agents are used. But the most important in the treatment of all kinds of this disease is diet compliance.
Diet for hepatitis
A diet for hepatitis means a complete restructuring of the lifestyle and a person's consciousness. It is very important not only to follow the recommendations in treatment, but also consciously observe the diet. The diet should be gentle, regular, portioned.
Liver itself as a biological filter performs dozens of functions in the human body, so the correct dietary diet recommended by a dietitian doctor will avoid complications and cope with any form of hepatitis. The diet is necessary to relieve the load from the affected liver.
The diet for hepatitis begins with the prohibition of foods that can have a harmful effect on liver tissue. These include:
- Fried food.
- Spicy and spicy food.
- Alcoholic beverages.
- Marinades containing acetic acid.
- Animal fats.
- Uncontrolled independent use of medicines.
- Foods with dyes and sweeteners( carbonated drinks including).
- Sweet.
- Vegetables grown using chemistry.
List of products recommended for use in hepatitis:
- Cereals( cereals, soups).
- Low-fat fish.
- Products from soy.
- Lactic acid products. Low-fat fresh milk and cottage cheese.
- Vegetable soups.
- Fresh fruits( non-acidic).
- Eggs.
- Avocado.
These recommendations can be observed with any type of hepatitis, including alcohol and medicines. Diet after hepatitis A, as the most common type, is observed no less than six months.
Patients often wonder what kind of diet is associated with hepatitis C and are there any differences? The diet for patients with hepatitis C has its own characteristics, since the course of this hepatitis differs from other forms by an erased clinical picture, and often asymptomatic course. Absence of symptoms should not be an indication to the cancellation of the diet.
Recipes for patients with hepatitis C
- Elimination of alcohol, beverages containing caffeine.
- Lightly salted diet( up to 2 grams of table salt per day).
- Exception from the diet of red and fatty meat, fatty fish.
- Exclusion of all canned products and marinades.
- Exclusion of smoked and fried products.
The diet for chronic hepatitis implies the restriction of physical activity, fractional and frequent meals in small portions.
When hepatitis is usually prescribed table number 5 or diet 5. The purpose of diet 5 for hepatitis C is to improve the secretion of bile from the liver and protect the liver from the harmful effects of various foods. With such a diet, the normal protein and carbohydrate content is maintained, and the intake of animal fats is limited.
For a diet in the treatment of hepatitis C, boiled, stewed and baked dishes are recommended, preferably meat and coarse vegetables after cooking through a meat grinder or grater. Soups should only be vegetable, you can with cereals. Milk soups with pasta, vegetarian borsch and beetroot are also recommended. You can not eat fat meat broths, mushroom and fish soups, okroshka and green soup.
Diet in the toxic form of the disease contains lean or fat-free meat, as well as poultry without skin, young lamb, rabbit, low-fat pork, turkey. Patients can cook cabbage rolls, pilaf from boiled meat. Do not eat goose or duck meat, or liver.
Diet in viral form is not much different from other types of diet in this disease. From lactic acid products recommend to use kefir, curdled milk, bold or low-fat cottage cheese, dishes from cottage cheese( vareniki, puddings, casseroles).
The diet includes the use of non-fat and low-fat cheese, as well as sour cream for soup filling. In addition, you can eat an omelet from eggs, and sometimes eggs and soft-boiled eggs. You can not eat steep or fried eggs.
Of pastry products, yesterday's bread, pastries without yeast with cottage cheese, fish or boiled meat, dry biscuits are recommended. From pasta to hepatitis can eat solid varieties of pasta in a boiled form. You can not eat fresh yeast bread and butter, fried dough.
When using cereals, remember that the diet for hepatitis does not contain legumes, as legumes cause bloating and give a load on the liver. This becomes especially relevant for a diet for alcoholic hepatitis.
Vegetables can be used in boiled or raw form. It is useful to use non-acid sauerkraut, but you need to exclude from the diet green onions, garlic, sorrel, radish, radish, mushrooms. From fresh vegetables, you can prepare a salad and season with vegetable oil. Vinaigrettes, salads from seafood, salads from fresh fruit are useful.
When prescribing a diet, cooking recipes are simple. The dishes are mostly either ground, boiled, or steamed. You can make workpieces from low-fat meat( meatballs) and lay them in the freezer. To do this, the meat is scrolled twice through a meat grinder, add dried apricots, milk, egg, salt to taste. Preparation of meatballs does not take long. They are usually cooked in the oven, watering sour cream, or in a double boiler.
Another useful recipe - syrniki with carrots. For this, carrots are rubbed on a grater, add a little vegetable oil, mango and cook a little. Then add the cottage cheese, egg, flour and sugar. You can cook the cheese cakes in the oven.
Before prescribing a diet for drug-induced hepatitis, it is necessary to discover which medication has a toxic effect on the liver. It is necessary not only to find this drug and to exclude it, but also to find it an adequate replacement. It should be remembered that the cancellation of the drug can, on the one hand, improve the liver, and on the other hand, worsen the general condition of the patient.