Contents:
- Medical Video: Fatty Liver Disease
- Try to avoid alcohol and smoking
- Have a healthy diet
- Stay away from dangerous drugs
- Change your daily habits to improve your health
- Having sex with protection
- Don't share personal items
Medical Video: Fatty Liver Disease
In addition to doctor's care for liver disease, your lifestyle is also an important part of your treatment process. It is important to evaluate how you treat your body and heart. In the first year your body becomes very sensitive. So how should you change your lifestyle to improve your health?
Try to avoid alcohol and smoking
Whether you drink alcohol or smoke, it is best to avoid both of these to ensure the healing of your heart. Alcohol and smoking can make the heart work harder to filter your blood. Sometimes it can be too heavy to be handled by your liver, causing liver damage. For a healthy lifestyle, you should try not to get rid of alcohol and smoking from your lifestyle.
Have a healthy diet
People with liver disease tend to be at high risk for high blood pressure, so the most important change in your diet is reducing your salt intake. You must choose foods that are low in sodium and reduce the amount of salt when you cook. Excess salt can cause your body to retain fluid, causing swelling in the stomach and legs. You must eat vegetables and fruit to get vitamins and minerals to increase your body's immunity. Some types of liver disease can cause malnutrition and muscle loss, so you also need protein. You can choose lean protein such as nuts, poultry or fish. But remember to avoid raw seafood and other raw meat. Because it can increase the risk of infection such as listeria.
Stay away from dangerous drugs
Apart from the medication prescribed by your doctor, you should avoid using additional drugs. Some drugs may be dangerous if you have liver damage. So, you must use over-the-counter or herbal supplements very carefully. Liver damage makes it harder for you to process drugs. For this reason, ask your doctor before using drugs, including non-prescription drugs and herbal supplements and tell your doctor or pharmacist about what medicines you are taking.
Change your daily habits to improve your health
Changing harmful habits to improve your overall health can help you prevent and overcome symptoms of liver disease. Quitting smoking and doing daily exercise combined with taking a multivitamin (recommended by a doctor) are good examples. Don't use iron supplements unless your doctor recommends that.
In addition, having good dental health can reduce dental problems that will cause infection. You should know that you have been vaccinated, including Influenza vaccine, hepatitis A and hepatitis B and pneumococci. Don't forget to ask your doctor how often you have to be vaccinated.
Having sex with protection
Safe sex will help you reduce the risk of getting hepatitis. Hepatitis B and hepatitis C can be transmitted sexually so having unprotected sex can increase the risk of hepatitis B and C. Ask your doctor about hepatitis vaccination and the best way to protect yourself and your partner.
Don't share personal items
Don't use needles, razors, toothbrushes or other personal items to avoid the risk of transmitting liver disease to others and vice versa. Remember, don't share your personal belongings, rather this means that you are someone who is selfish but this is an action to protect the people you love and protect yourself.
Only a few small changes in your habits can make your life healthier. If you are a healthy person, you also need to have some lifestyle changes because preventive medicine is the key to a healthy and longer life.
