Nursing measures for hepatic encephalopathy

Hepatic encephalopathy nursing measures mainly include improving eating habits, following doctor's advice, medication, disease monitoring.

1. Improve eating habits

Hepatic encephalopathy patients should reduce protein intake in diet, eat more low-salt, low-fat, high-carbohydrate, digestible food, reasonable healthy diet, maintain nutritional balance.

2. Follow doctor's advice

Hepatic encephalopathy patients should take drugs according to doctor's advice on time and in quantity, do not change medicine or stop medicine without authorization. Common drugs include lactulose, lactitol, intestinal probiotics, etc., which can effectively acidify intestinal tract, reduce ammonia absorption, inhibit intestinal bacterial reproduction, reduce the development of ammonia-producing bacteria, promote the growth of beneficial bacteria in intestinal tract, inhibit the development of harmful bacteria, and promote recovery.

3. Disease monitoring

Hepatic encephalopathy patients should follow doctor's advice to pay close attention to the disease dynamics, pay close attention to the changes in thinking and cognition, and regularly visit doctors, and seek medical treatment in time if abnormal.