Some friends may have poor liver function for various reasons, such as hepatitis B, frequent drinking, high-fat diet and taking some drugs. But I didn't dare to use drugs indiscriminately, so I went to see a doctor. The doctor can only tell you that some people have been dragging their feet and dragged them into liver disease. In fact, protecting liver not only means eliminating mutagenic factors, but also includes taking measures to improve liver function.
To protect the liver, we must first make clear the reasons why our liver is not good. When the liver is damaged by some pathogenic factors, it will cause the destruction of the morphological structure of the liver and the abnormality of liver function. These factors may include the above hepatotropic virus, heavy drinking, high-fat diet, aflatoxin and so on.
Mild injury, through the compensatory function of the liver, generally will not occur obvious dysfunction; If the damage lasts for a long time and is serious, it will cause obvious abnormal changes in liver function, such as disorder of substance metabolism, decline of detoxification function, obstruction of bile formation and excretion and bleeding tendency, that is, abnormal liver function.
How do you know to what extent your liver is damaged? Serological examination combined with imaging examination can generally confirm the diagnosis, and it can also be confirmed by liver biopsy. Combined with the reasons of your poor liver, you can make more targeted adjustments.
In addition, the onset of liver disease is not untraceable, and the following six manifestations account for more than two, so it is necessary to check the liver function as soon as possible: 1, jaundice, liver injury can not decompose toxins normally, and when it reacts to the skin, symptoms such as yellow complexion and white eyes will appear. 2, ascites, liver function is weakened, the liquid in the abdominal cavity will slowly accumulate, forming ascites. From the outside, the belly looks unusually big and yellow. 3, pain in the right upper abdomen, this position is the liver? Territory? Once it hurts, it is likely that the liver disease is already very serious.
4, short-term weight loss is rapid, liver cells are constantly damaged, and the body will lose appetite, leading to insufficient nutrition and weight loss. 5, abnormal bleeding, abnormal liver function, coagulation function will also have problems, many parts of the body are prone to abnormal bleeding symptoms. 6. Liver lesions of liver palm and spider nevus weaken the inhibitory ability of estrogen, and estrogen accumulates in capillaries, which will cause abnormalities such as liver palm and spider nevus.
Take hepatitis B, fatty liver, liver cirrhosis and so on. For example, briefly introduce the treatment of protecting the liver:
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has strong hepatotropism, and human hepatocytes are its natural reservoir. Therefore, as long as they are found to be HBV positive, some liver cells of these patients have been occupied by HBV virus, regardless of size.
Liver cancer usually takes more than ten years to occur, and after being infected with HBV virus, the time of suffering from liver cancer will be greatly shortened. The risk of HCC in people with chronic HBV infection is 100 times higher than that in normal people. 20% patients with chronic hepatitis B will develop liver cancer.
For patients with hepatitis B, antiviral treatment and liver protection treatment are the most important. Once HBV infection is detected, it is necessary to closely monitor whether the liver function is abnormal and detect the virus activity. And under the guidance of doctors, actively carry out antiviral treatment of hepatitis B, patients need to take drugs for a long time. It usually takes about two years, so you can't stop taking the medicine yourself.
Fatty liver is generally mild to moderate fatty liver and does not need treatment. The best specific medicine is to change lifestyle. Treat severe fatty liver, change lifestyle, and take drugs to protect liver and reduce blood fat. If it is fatty fatty liver, that is, fatty liver mainly caused by obesity, as long as the weight is controlled, the situation of fat infiltrating into the liver can be obviously improved. If it is alcoholic fatty liver, as long as alcohol intake is restricted, transaminase can be reduced to a basically normal level. If it is malnutrition fatty liver, as long as a high-protein diet is given, liver fat can be quickly removed and natural liver function will return to normal.
One more thing: when you have no obvious symptoms at ordinary times, but fatty liver is found in physical examination, you should find the cause as soon as possible and adjust the cause, and most fatty liver can return to normal.
Cirrhosis trilogy of hepatitis B-cirrhosis-liver cancer, in fact, the antecedents of cirrhosis are not only hepatitis B, but also fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver and physical and chemical liver injury. In almost all patients with chronic liver injury, liver fibrosis usually leads to cirrhosis, which is characterized by nodule formation and liver contraction. Active anti-hepatic fibrosis therapy can delay the occurrence of cirrhosis to some extent, and even reverse early cirrhosis. Because this process of becoming cirrhosis is long and easy to be ignored, we should be positive. Don't wait until the late stage of liver cirrhosis, bleeding, edema, ascites and other problems, to treat. By this time, it was already late.
Other ways to protect the liver The liver is in the human body, just like a bank, responsible for managing the circulation of the three major currencies (gas, blood and water). Emotion, sleep, diet and even drugs will affect the excretion function of the liver.
Therefore, in addition to eliminating the inducement, there are many ways to protect the liver, such as diet, exercise, taking liver-protecting drugs and so on. Either way, it boils down to three aspects: 1, reducing the burden on the liver, 2, increasing liver nutrition, and 3, improving liver blood supply.
1, reducing the burden on the liver is the most important. Don't put too much burden on the liver. Don't drink, eat more high-protein and high-fat foods. If the liver is damaged or even the liver function is not complete, we should pay more attention to it. The liver has powerful compensation and repair functions, but it won't last long. 2. Nutrition supply should keep up. Here is not a high-protein diet, but it is best to have amino acids, inosine and other substances, which are necessary for liver cell repair. Cucumber, celery, spinach, cauliflower and kelp can be eaten often, which is good for the liver. Because B vitamins and vitamin D directly or indirectly participate in the metabolic process of the liver, vitamin C and vitamin E can resist the oxidation of the liver and maintain the vitality of liver cells. 3. Don't stay up late and exercise properly. Staying up late is usually more serious, especially for people who have liver disease. Staying up late will make their viruses more active or put their bodies in a more dangerous state.
If liver-protecting drugs can protect the liver from jaundice, reduce enzymes and detoxify the liver, then liver-protecting health products can indirectly protect the liver by providing nutrients for liver repair. So from this perspective, why spend those wasted money?
Myrrh doctor, licensed pharmacist, senior nutritionist, protect life and health, refuse fake health preservation, and personally care for a healthy you!