What should liver cancer patients eat? What is the best diet for advanced liver cancer patients?

Many liver cancer patients experience pain in the liver area, so they think that pain in the liver area is liver cancer. Is this true? Is pain in the liver area an early symptom of liver cancer?

Tumor experts say that liver cancer patients may experience pain in the liver area, but pain in the liver area does not necessarily mean liver cancer. Clinically, the following diseases can also cause pain in the liver area:

1. Depression: Depression can also cause pain in the liver area. Many hepatitis B virus carriers have normal liver function, but always feel discomfort and pain in the liver area. This situation is considered to be a psychological suggestion of the patient or a non-specific liver disease indicator.

2. Liver disease: Cirrhosis, hepatitis or fatty liver may also cause pain in the liver area. The liver may swell to varying degrees, which may cause the liver capsule to over-expand and stretch, causing pain or discomfort. Some people may still occasionally feel pain in the liver area after acute hepatitis is cured or turns into chronic hepatitis.

3. Liver cancer: Due to the growth of tumors, liver cancer patients compress the liver capsule or healthy tissues. The pain is mostly intermittent or continuous dull pain, and stabbing pain may also occur.

4. Organ and tissue lesions near the liver area: Organ lesions near the liver area can also cause discomfort and pain in the liver area, such as cholecystitis, gallstones, etc.

Dietary care to prevent liver cancer:

1. Do not pollute drinking water. Drinking water with chemicals can easily cause cancer. Tap water is not necessarily clean. There are water tanks on the roofs of buildings with more than 5 floors. The water tanks should be cleaned by a dedicated person. It is best to perform secondary disinfection. The water tank body should also use chemicals that will not pollute water.

2. Appropriate selenium supplementation. For people with low selenium levels, selenium-enriched yeast, selenium polysaccharides, and selenium-enriched salts can be used to supplement selenium and increase blood selenium levels.

3. Reduce the intake of nitrosamines and quit smoking and drinking. Smoking and drinking are also bad for fatty liver. Drinking wine, beer, and a small amount of alcohol can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. In fact, this is not true. Alcohol is harmful to the human body. The gastric mucosa in the stomach has a protective effect on the human body. Alcohol can digest the gastric mucosa, injure the cells of the stomach, and the toxic substances in the food are easily absorbed by the stomach. This can easily cause alcoholic hepatitis, reduce the immune function of the liver and the whole body, and damage the detoxification function of the liver. This is why people who drink have poor detoxification function and are prone to alcoholic cirrhosis, and some cirrhosis will turn into liver cancer.

4. Prevent hepatitis. Using hepatitis vaccines to prevent hepatitis and thus liver cancer has become one of the most promising ways to prevent liver cancer. Not only should children be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine when they are born, but adults who have not been vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine and have not had hepatitis can also be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine. However, it is estimated that it will take decades to see the effect. In addition to the hepatitis B vaccine, attention should also be paid to the control of other transmission routes, such as diet, surgery, blood transfusion, injection, acupuncture and hairdressing.

What is the best diet for patients with advanced liver cancer?

1. Food should be easy to digest

In the late stage of liver cancer, special attention should be paid to providing easily digestible food. The food must include a certain amount of staple food, such as wheat flour, corn, sweet potato, millet, etc.; vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, rapeseed, lettuce, cauliflower, kiwi, orange, strawberry, etc.; meat, soy products, as well as milk and dairy products.

Because liver cancer patients have difficulty digesting and absorbing fat, especially in the late stage of liver cancer, they should pay attention to not eating too much fat in their diet. Foods such as fatty meat, fried foods, dried fruits, sausages, etc. should be avoided. A low-fat diet can not only alleviate the digestive tract symptoms of liver cancer patients, such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, etc., but also less fat in the diet can also reduce the degree of pain in the liver area to a certain extent.

As the disease progresses, patients may experience bleeding symptoms such as upper gastrointestinal bleeding, nose bleeding, subcutaneous ecchymosis, etc. When there is upper gastrointestinal bleeding, attention should be paid to scientific diet.

2. Diet for jaundice and ascites

Patients with advanced liver cancer often have symptoms and signs such as severe jaundice, indigestion, ascites, and severe pain in the liver area. Therefore, in the diet arrangement for advanced liver cancer, we should try to make some food that the patient likes. In addition to the above foods that should be avoided, various nutritious and easily digestible foods can be given. Professor Wang said: The key to the diet arrangement for advanced liver cancer is to choose a diet that suits the patient's taste and has the effect of increasing appetite. In the process of preparing meals, we must do everything possible to supplement the patient's nutrition and enhance his resistance so that he can accept treatments such as chemical drugs, radiation or surgery.

Most patients with advanced liver cancer have liver damage, so they should eat a light, easily digestible diet and avoid eating too much high-protein, high-fat food. This is because high-protein, high-fat food will increase the burden on the liver and kidneys, and may even induce hepatic encephalopathy (the liver's detoxification ability decreases, excessive protein decomposition produces a large amount of ammonia that accumulates in the blood, enters the brain, and causes the patient to have mental symptoms or even coma and death).

As for what to eat best for advanced liver cancer patients, everyone who has been sick has their own opinions. Everyone's nutritional status, immunity, and medical condition are different. If you can go to a nutrition consultation clinic first and discuss with a nutritionist, you can develop a complete plan based on your personal situation, which will be best for you.