As the pace of life accelerates, many people often neglect their personal lives for work, and irregular eating habits create opportunities for many diseases, with gallstones being one of them. Gallstones have a significant impact on the human body. If not treated in time, they can not only lead to diseases like cholecystitis but, in severe cases, can even cause gallbladder cancer, endangering the patient's life. Gallstones are mainly caused by unhealthy eating habits, so the diet of gallstone patients requires special attention.
Precautions
1. Pay attention to food and water hygiene. Wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly before eating them raw, then rinse them with boiled or cool water to prevent ingesting roundworms and pesticide residues. Develop a good habit of drinking boiled water instead of unboiled water.
2. Eat more foods rich in vitamins, such as green vegetables, carrots, tomatoes, spinach, and cabbage. Also, eat more fruits like bananas and apples regularly.
3. Use vegetable oil for cooking, and opt for methods like stewing, braising, and steaming for your dishes.
4. Frequently eat lean meats, chicken, fish, walnuts, black fungus, kelp, and seaweed.
5. Eat more foods that promote bile secretion, relax the sphincter of the bile duct, and have a cholagogic effect, such as hawthorn, dark plum, and corn silk (to be steeped in tea and consumed slowly).
Foods to Avoid
1. Foods high in cholesterol, such as animal hearts, livers, brains, intestines, egg yolks, century eggs, roe, and chocolate.
2. High-fat foods, such as fatty meat, lard, and fried foods. Foods with a lot of oil, like rich pastries, should also be avoided, as excessive fat can cause the gallbladder to contract, leading to pain.
3. Overeating during holidays or gatherings with friends and family. Binge eating can stimulate a large amount of bile secretion, and the strong contraction of the gallbladder can cause inflammation of the gallbladder and local colic.
4. Spicy and stimulating condiments, such as chili and pepper.
5. Tobacco, alcohol, and coffee. These stimulating foods can increase stomach acid, cause the gallbladder to contract violently, lead to spasms of the sphincter of Oddi, and make bile difficult to discharge, easily inducing biliary colic.
6. Avoid gas-producing foods: Do not consume foods like sweet potatoes, potatoes, celery, onions, radishes, chives, soybeans, bamboo shoots, garlic, carbonated drinks, and acidic juices, coffee, or cocoa, as they are prone to causing gas.