Things to note during gallstone illness

Gallstones are a common disease at present. Gallstone patients not only suffer from cholesterol and gallbladder pain, but also suffer from physical and mental fatigue and loss of appetite. Gallstone patients can prevent and stabilize their condition by changing their smoking and drinking habits, ensuring regular diet and increasing dietary nutrition, so as to prevent the condition from worsening due to certain inattentions during the treatment process.

Patients with gallstones should pay attention to the following points in their diet:

1. Prohibition of alcohol and alcoholic beverages

2. Eat regularly and have a good breakfast

3. Low cholesterol diet. Excessive cholesterol intake can increase the metabolism and cleansing burden of the liver and gallbladder, and cause excess cholesterol to crystallize, accumulate and precipitate on the gallbladder wall, thereby forming stones. Therefore, you should reduce your cholesterol intake, especially at night, and avoid eating high-cholesterol foods such as eggs (especially egg yolks), fatty meat, seafood, scaleless fish, animal offal and other foods.

Other dietary considerations for gallstones:

1. It is advisable to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and low-fat, low-cholesterol foods such as: mushrooms, fungus, celery, bean sprouts, kelp, lotus root, fish, rabbit meat, chicken, fresh beans, etc.

2. It is advisable to eat more dry beans and their products.

3. It is advisable to use vegetable oil instead of animal oil.

4. Eat less spicy food such as peppers and raw garlic

5. It is advisable to use cooking methods such as boiling, steaming, braising, stir-frying, mixing, blanching and stewing, and do not use cooking methods such as frying, deep-frying, roasting and smoking.