How to eat in the late stage of liver cancer? Five major dietary taboos for liver cancer should be noted

Liver cancer is a malignant tumor of the liver. It is a common and frequently occurring surgical disease. Malignant liver tumors can be divided into two categories: primary and secondary. Primary malignant liver tumors originate from the epithelial or mesenchymal tissue of the liver. The former is called primary liver cancer, which is a highly prevalent and extremely harmful malignant tumor in my country; the latter is called sarcoma, which is relatively rare compared with primary liver cancer. Secondary or metastatic liver cancer refers to malignant tumors originating from multiple organs throughout the body that invade the liver. It is generally common in liver metastases of malignant tumors in organs such as the stomach, bile duct, pancreas, colorectum, ovary, uterus, lung, and breast.

How should you pay attention to your diet in the late stage of liver cancer?

1. Pay attention to energy supplement: Liver cancer patients consume a lot of energy, so they must ensure adequate nutrition. The simplest way to measure the nutritional status of patients is whether they can maintain their weight. To maintain a normal weight, the best way is to maintain a balanced diet, requiring patients to eat more fresh vegetables, and half of them should be green leafy vegetables.

2. Fat intake: A high-fat diet will affect and aggravate the condition, while a low-fat diet can alleviate symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal distension in liver cancer patients.

3. Liver cancer patients should supplement more vitamins: Vitamin A, C, E, K, etc. have certain auxiliary anti-tumor effects.

4. Diet after bleeding in the late stage of liver cancer: After the bleeding stops, you can generally choose a diet prepared with sweetened milk, eggs, lotus root powder, vegetable juice, soy milk, etc., and add some staple foods containing salt.

Five dietary taboos for liver cancer

1. Moldy food: Aflatoxin in moldy food is a liver cancer-causing substance. The shortest time it takes to cause cancer is only 24 weeks. Therefore, food should be properly stored and discarded immediately once it is moldy, especially soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, etc., which must not be eaten. In addition, peanut oil should not be stored for a long time. If it is found to have a rancid smell, it should not be eaten. Otherwise, it will not only taste bad, but more importantly, it will cause cancer.

2. Pickles: Pickles, pickles, salted fish and other pickles are refreshing and appetizing. As the weather gets hotter, people lose their appetite and prefer to eat pickles with rice. However, pickles contain a large amount of nitrosamines, which have been shown to be related to liver cancer. It is best not to eat them or eat less. And remember, you must pickle them thoroughly before eating.

3. Drinking: Long-term drinking will cause alcohol to digest the gastric mucosa. Once the gastric cells are injured, the toxic substances in the food will be easily absorbed by the stomach, which can easily cause alcoholic hepatitis, damage the liver's detoxification function, and even cause alcoholic cirrhosis, which is a risk factor for liver cancer. If moldy peanuts are used as a snack, the possibility of inducing liver cancer will be greater. Dr. Dong recommends that adult men should not drink more than 2 cups of alcohol per day, and women should not drink more than 1 cup.

4. Spoiled animal and vegetable oils: Stale oils contain the chemical component malondialdehyde, which can generate polymers and react with proteins and DNA in the human body, causing the protein structure to mutate, causing the cells with mutated proteins to lose their normal functions and transform into early cancer cells. In addition, malondialdehyde polymers can hinder the replication of DNA and accelerate the aging process of people. Therefore, animal and vegetable oils should not be stored for too long, and oils that have deteriorated and have a rancid smell should not be eaten. Foods fried with rancid oils not only taste bad, but more importantly, they can cause cancer and shorten people's lifespan.

5. Spicy food: People with liver cancer should be careful not to eat spicy and irritating food, because it will cause great stimulation to the body. Because patients with primary liver cancer are prone to portal vein cancer thrombus, causing portal hypertension, esophageal and gastric varices, once the diet is improper, it may cause upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients, endangering their lives. In addition, we also want to remind everyone: patients with primary liver cancer must pay attention to food hygiene. Unclean food can cause intestinal infection, which may eventually induce serious complications that endanger life.