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Hepatitis or inflammation of the liver is a consequence of the adverse effects on the organ of viruses, drugs, alcoholic beverages and other toxic substances. Although treatment is prescribed based on specific causes, diet for liver inflammation is essential. Usually doctors prescribe table # 5. This diet minimizes the effects of an inflamed liver, improves overall health and stabilizes the functioning of the organ.
General rules of nutrition for an inflamed liver
Diet is an integral part of treatment for pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract and inflamed liver. It is known that the following adverse factors lead to liver disease:
- viral infections that are transmitted by parenteral, fecal-oral routes;
- chronic and acute poisoning, for example, due to the consumption of poisonous mushrooms;
- alcohol intoxication;
- taking certain medications, in particular those related to the group of NSAIDs, antibiotics, COCs, antiviral agents;
- abuse of herbal medicine (cleansing the body with Thai and Chinese herbal supplements);
- obesity, which provokes non-alcoholic steatohepatitis;
- reactive hepatitis due to pancreatitis, cancer, gastric ulcer, as well as duodenal ulcer, gallbladder pathologies.
An inflamed liver that requires dieting can be identified by the following:
- general malaise, weakness;
- loss of appetite, nausea, flatulence;
- pain in the right hypochondrium;
- changes in blood counts;
- increase in organ parameters.
Table number 5 and a special diet for inflamed liver includes a minimum amount of fat. Calorie content is increased by increasing carbohydrates. Compliance with the drinking regime is important. You must drink at least 2 liters of water per day.
The way food is cooked while on a diet is essential. Dishes need to be prepared by baking, stewing, steaming. Steamed and boiled foods are useful. Fruits and vegetables can be eaten raw.
A diet for an inflamed liver means:
- limiting the use of so-called simple carbohydrates, salt and chicken eggs;
- exclusion of strong chemical irritants;
- refusal from smoked and fried foods;
- fractional meals.
What diet is needed for liver inflammation
With an inflamed liver, diet No. 5 is prescribed.The total calorie content per day is 2900 kcal:
- carbohydrates - 450 g;
- proteins - 100 g;
- fats - 90 g.
Allowed Products
If your liver is inflamed, your diet may include:
- chill, okroshka with the addition of yogurt, beetroot soup, nettle cabbage soup, vegetarian borscht, fruit, milk and lean soups (with rice, barley, potatoes, buckwheat, cauliflower, millet);
- beef, veal, young lamb, rabbit (boiled, baked);
- turkey, chicken, game;
- boiled, baked, stewed fish;
- milk porridge, pasta;
- salads with the addition of oil;
- dairy products with a low percentage of fat;
- pies with vegetable and cereal fillings based on uncooked dough;
- fruit salads, vegetables;
- honey;
- compotes, jelly.
Partially restricted products
After consulting with a specialist, you can use dairy sausages, marshmallows, doctor's sausage. Sour cream and butter, raspberries, strawberries, strawberries can be used in small quantities for inflamed liver. Dilute the cherry or apple juice with warm water before pouring it out.
Prohibited foods
With an inflamed liver, exclude:
- okroshka with the addition of kvass, rich broths, for example, meat and fish soups;
- meals and foods that contain significant amounts of cholesterol, such as lard, smoked, fatty or fried meat;
- by-products, which include kidneys;
- goose, duck;
- fatty, smoked or salted fish, as well as caviar;
- raw garlic or onions, radishes, radishes, legumes;
- canned food, sausages;
- cream, salted cheeses, cottage cheese and high-fat milk;
- fried pasties, pies, buns, fresh bread;
- alcoholic, carbonated drinks, black coffee, strong tea.
A diet for an inflamed liver should not contain foods that contain essential oils and oxalic acid, or dishes fried in a large amount of oil.
Recommended menu for the week
Following a diet with an inflamed liver, you can eat in a variety of ways:
- Monday... Breakfast includes bread, low-fat cottage cheese, yoghurt and mild tea. For lunch, prepare cottage cheese casserole, beetroot. Cabbage rolls and savory biscuits are served for dinner.
- Tuesday... Breakfast consists of the following products: tea, oatmeal with honey and grated apple. Lunch includes soup with vegetables and minced chicken meatballs, wheat (yesterday's) bread. For dinner, a glass of milk and an omelet with vegetables are served.
- Wednesday... For breakfast, a two-protein omelet is prepared, which is complemented with oatmeal cookies and green tea. For lunch, you can serve vegetable broth with rice, as well as a steamed cutlet with buckwheat porridge. Dinner includes a glass of kefir and low-fat cottage cheese.
- Thursday... Breakfast is served with oatmeal with cottage cheese, carrot juice. Lunch looks like non-acidic sauerkraut and meatballs with rice. For dinner you can imagine cheesecakes with honey and jelly.
- Friday... Breakfast includes steamed rice with vegetables, tea with honey. Lunch consists of boiled chicken, vegetables and fruit soufflé, and dinner consists of squash pancakes.
- Saturday... As a breakfast, they cook rice in milk, weak tea. For lunch, an omelet is served and apples are baked. Dinner includes vegetable stew and boiled chicken.
- Sunday... The breakfast option includes oatmeal with honey and walnuts, a baked apple. Lunch consists of steamed fish fillets and vegetables. For dinner, they cook a rabbit and stew vegetables.
Recipes for every day with an inflamed liver
The diet for an inflamed liver is simple. The diet maximally relieves the organs of the digestive system and helps to normalize the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
Steamed omelet
To prepare an omelet, you must use the following products:
- 4 eggs;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 apple (unsweetened);
- 1 tablespoon sour cream and vegetable oil;
- cinnamon;
- salt.
The apple is heated in a frying pan greased with vegetable oil after preliminary cleaning and chopping. Beat the eggs with sour cream and add cinnamon and salt. Rub the carrots on a coarse grater, then spread them with apples on a prepared and greased form, pour in the egg mixture.
The omelet is baked in the oven (at 180 ° C) for 20 minutes. You can add honey to the dish before serving.
Vegetable soup
Chopped vegetables and herbs are placed in a saucepan:
- carrot;
- leek;
- dill and parsley;
- a tomato;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 2 bay leaves.
The ingredients are poured into 1.8 liters of water, 1.5 glasses of dry wine (white) or 1 tablespoon of wine vinegar. The amount of salt is 0.5 tsp.
The soup is brought to a boil using medium heat and then reduced to low. The dish is ready when the carrots are softened.
Steamed fish cakes
With an inflamed liver, the diet includes meals from low-fat fish. To prepare cutlets, grind the fillet into minced meat (200 g), and then add the pulp of bread dipped in milk, salt and a small piece of butter. Cutlets are formed from the mass, which are steamed for 20 minutes.
Conclusion
A diet for liver inflammation allows you to eliminate the pathological process and normalize the functioning of the organ. In order not to provoke a deterioration in the condition, prohibited foods should be excluded from the diet. As you feel better, you can gradually incorporate partially approved names in your diet.
