What is good to eat after vomiting in the early stages of cirrhosis?

Written by Wu Hai Wu
Gastroenterology
Updated on May 04, 2025
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In the early stages of cirrhosis, after vomiting, one should eat light and easily digestible food. It's necessary to avoid spicy and stimulating food or rough, hard-to-digest food. Meanwhile, patients with cirrhosis should quit smoking and drinking alcohol, and also avoid drinking strong tea, coffee, etc. Once cirrhosis is discovered in a patient, targeted treatment should be administered, and comprehensive tests like color ultrasound and gastroscopy are needed to ascertain whether there are complications caused by cirrhosis, such as ascites or ruptured esophagogastric varices causing bleeding, among others.

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