Milk tea increases the risk of fatty liver

The rate of women of childbearing age with fatty liver disease has tripled in the past 10 years. Fatty liver can easily cause serious complications for the fetus, such as premature birth.

Avoid milk tea and fried foods to reduce the risk of fatty liver.

According to the latest studies, about 10% of women of childbearing age have fatty liver disease, and this rate has tripled in the past decade.

Fatty liver is a condition of excess fat accumulation in the liver due to metabolic disorders. In addition, acute fatty liver can occur during pregnancy. The main cause is due to pregnant women eating excess energy, especially from sugar and saturated fat, leading to insulin resistance, uncontrolled weight gain and fat accumulation in the liver.

Milk tea or fruit tea with added sugar, fried foods easily make the body overweight, increasing the risk of fatty liver.

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For example, a pregnant mother has an energy need of 1,600 kcal, but she eats an additional 400 kcal from foods outside of meals such as drinking milk tea or fruit teas with added sugar, fried foods, leading to a total daily energy intake of over 2,000 kcal, then the risk of fatty liver will increase.

In addition, being overweight before pregnancy or having gestational diabetes increases the risk of developing fatty liver during pregnancy.

Pregnant women with fatty liver often feel tired, have pain in the right abdomen and may have mild jaundice and yellowing of the iris (the white part of the eye). This is a sign of liver damage.

Serious risks include: gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage and premature birth. Babies born are at risk of obesity or metabolic disease later in life. Mothers with fatty liver have twice the risk of complications compared to normal mothers.

Appropriate nutrition

There is currently no specific drug to treat fatty liver disease that is safe during pregnancy. Close monitoring is needed to manage complications, especially with acute fatty liver disease that has dangerous signs that threaten the safety of the mother and fetus. At the same time, it is necessary to control blood sugar and blood pressure for the mother.

Pregnant women need to control their diet and have a healthy lifestyle to prevent and limit the progression of fatty liver disease.

Diet to follow: eat enough vegetables, eat 3 - 4 units of vegetables every day (each unit is equivalent to 80 grams (amount of vegetables before cooking); eat 3 - 4 units of fruit every day (each unit is equivalent to 80 grams of peeled fruit, can be eaten immediately). At the same time, do not add sugar to food and drinks.

Protein needs to be eaten 5 - 8 units (each unit is 7 grams of protein)/day, which are healthy proteins such as fish, eggs, chicken, pork, and beef.

Limit salt intake to less than 5 grams (including salt already present in foods). Therefore, limit adding salt when preparing food and pay attention to foods that are already high in salt such as canned and salted foods.

Fat should come from natural sources in plants (such as peanuts, sesame, macadamia nuts, walnuts) or from fish (such as the belly of fish, especially fatty fish like basa fish, catfish...)

At the same time, maintaining a reasonable weight before pregnancy (losing weight before pregnancy if overweight) and doing light, regular exercise (such as swinging your arms in place, walking lightly around the workplace, doing housework, etc.) all help reduce the risk of fatty liver and the harmful effects caused by fatty liver.

Pregnant women should consult doctors and nutritionists and adopt a healthy lifestyle to have a safe and healthy pregnancy.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/tra-sua-lam-tang-nguy-co-gan-nhiem-mo-185251103191201651.htm