food to avoid Raw eggs or undercooked eggs that do not have the lion stamp (these eggs must be well-cooked). Alternative choices Well-cooked/hard boiled eggs without the lion stamp. Hen eggs with the lion stamp can be eaten raw/runny/undercooked. food to avoid Raw fish such as sushi.
Avoid foods that include raw or undercooked eggs, such as Caesar salad, Hollandaise sauce, some custards, and chocolate mousse. Do not eat soft cheeses, and discard moldy foods. Foods should be well cooked, and they should be served to you hot – not lukewarm.
Most foods and drinks are completely safe for you to take after transplant. Please AVOID grapefruit, pomegranate, pomelo, blood orange, and black licorice, as these can increase the amount of anti- rejection medication in your body and this could harm you.
Consuming large amounts of fructose-rich fruits like raisins, dry fruits can result in inflammation and fatty liver. This is because the sugar present in fruits, known as fructose, can cause abnormal amounts of fat in the blood when consumed in large amounts.
Patients should ideally drink 8-10 glasses of water a day. Limit sugar consumption: One of the side effects of medication prescribed after a liver transplant includes high blood sugar. To avoid this, limit your consumption of sweets and sugars. Avoid cakes, jams, jellies, packaged juices and chocolate.
It is crucial to eat enough calories and protein to help your incision heal and fight infection. Eat small frequent meals throughout the day and include protein with every meal. Good sources include poultry (chicken and turkey), fish, seafood, red meats and yogurt.
Do not eat raw vegetables, eg lettuce. Do not eat cheese made from unpasteurised milk and avoid cheeses with mould.
Foods to avoid after transplant include: Raw seafood like clams, oysters, sushi and ceviche. Raw, rare or undercooked meat, poultry and fish. Raw or undercooked eggs.
To help meet your protein needs, the following foods are recommended: Meats (beef, pork, poultry, turkey, seafood) Fish. Dairy products (mild cheese, yogurt)
All cheese is safe to eat if cooked until piping hot or pasteurised. Hard cheeses are generally a safer option (pasteurised or unpasteurised), e.g. cheddar, red Leicester, edam, gouda, pecorino, parmesan.
Successful transplants should mean that your previous potassium restriction is relaxed. Your dietitian and doctor can further advise you about how to reintroduce high potassium foods, such as bananas, coffee, nuts and chocolate.
Raw food and salads must be avoided. One should also avoid sweets and fruits that have the potential for shooting up the blood sugar. Post-transplant medicines will often raise the blood sugar and insulin will need to be used in the first three months. Smoking is a strict no and so is gutka and tobacco.
Careful attention to medication schedules, lifestyle changes, infection-avoidance techniques are all important ways to prolong one's life after transplantation.
Cruciferous vegetables
If you love broccoli, you're in luck. This cruciferous vegetable — along with cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, and mustard greens — are good for your liver. They are a source of fiber, which supports liver health.
Most patients can return to a normal or near-normal activity and participate in fairly vigorous exercise six to 12 months after successful liver transplant surgery.
Limit high sugar foods and drinks. Avoid high calorie foods with low nutritional value such as doughnuts, candy, cookies, ice cream, and other junk food.
High levels of bacteria have been found in the following foods and it is recommended you avoid these. Unpasteurised cheese, e.g. soft ripened cheeses such as Brie, Camembert and blue vein type cheese such as Stilton and Danish Blue.
Avoid salted, smoked, cured, pickled or canned meat, poultry or fish. Avoid cold cuts, sausage, bacon, hotdogs, anchovies, sardines, ham, regular canned tuna and salmon, breaded fish, regular cheese and cheese spreads, pickles, vinegars, regular peanut butter, and canned soups, all of which are high in salt.
If your liver transplant was due to an alcohol-related disease, you must never drink alcohol again as you risk harming your transplanted liver. This also applies if alcohol was thought to have contributed to your liver disease, even if it was not the main cause.
Liver transplant recipients may drink treated (chlorinated) municipal tap water. If a patient's drinking water comes from a well or questionable source, he or she is advised to boil the water before drinking it: The water should be at a rolling boil for one minute.
Having enough fiber in your daily diet. Drinking low-fat milk or eating other low-fat dairy products, to help maintain enough calcium. Maintaining a low-salt and low-fat diet.
Dairy products (milk, yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese) • Soy products (tofu, soy milk, soybeans) • Nuts, seeds and nut butters (peanut butter, almond butter, etc.) You should have at least one of these protein foods in each meal.