It is estimated that there are more than 500 chemical reactions in the liver. Once the structure of the liver changes, it will bring trouble and affect other functions of the body.
The liver is extremely important to human health. If there is something wrong with the liver, the body will also send out some abnormal signals. Pay attention to the liver when the following symptoms appear.
Pain in the right upper abdomen
When there is a problem with the liver, no matter whether it is hepatitis B carriers or chronic hepatitis B, many patients will have symptoms of pain in the right upper abdomen, because the position of the right upper abdomen may be pain in the liver area.
If it is hepatitis, it is mostly dull pain, not serious, and it may happen all the time, whether it is day or night. In addition to the liver, there are lungs, gallbladder and colon in the right upper abdomen, so the pain in the right upper abdomen may also be caused by other diseases.
In fact, our liver is a silent organ, and it is not easy to have painful symptoms under normal circumstances, so when there are painful symptoms in the liver area, it is best to check it as soon as possible.
Jaundice: yellow eyes and dull complexion.
When we say yellow eyes, we mean yellow sclera. This is because when the liver is seriously damaged, the bilirubin level in the body will rise, so jaundice will occur. At this time, the patient's sclera will turn yellow, that is:
The original white part of the eye turns yellow, which looks as if the eye is yellow; The principle of skin yellowing is the same as sclera yellowing. If hepatitis patients develop cirrhosis, their faces will become dull.
This kind of face is usually called liver face. When it appears, it often indicates the possibility of serious liver disease, perhaps cirrhosis.
Ordinary patients with chronic hepatitis B usually do not have jaundice, so there will be no obvious symptoms of yellow eyes or skin, while acute hepatitis B or bile duct obstruction is prone to jaundice.
Palm turns red.
In fact, the palm turns red, which is often called the liver palm. More common in patients with liver cirrhosis. It means that after suffering from liver cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis, the skin at the thenar of the little finger and thumb appears flaky congestion symptoms, or there are red patches and spots, which will turn white after pressing. One of the important signs of liver cirrhosis and chronic hepatitis is the liver palm.
insomnia and have many dreams
Many patients with liver injury will wake up with insomnia, dreaminess, listlessness and other symptoms. Chinese medicine has the saying that "the liver governs the soul". People can't sleep well if their souls are not there.
Decreased vision
Good eyesight depends on the nutrition of liver and blood. If the yin and blood in the liver are insufficient, it will lead to dry eyes, even blurred vision and decreased vision.
If the liver meridian is damp and hot, there will be symptoms such as tears and eye edema. In addition, when the liver fire is too strong, there will be symptoms such as excessive gum and red eyes.
In our life, many people have done some behaviors that hurt the liver unintentionally. Deng, director of hepatobiliary and pancreatic oncology department of Chongqing Cancer Hospital, mentioned:
Lack of sleep, excessive drinking, overeating, viral hepatitis and drug abuse are the "killers" that affect the health of the liver. Over time, it is easy to cause liver function damage and even develop into liver cancer.
To protect the liver, we should develop good living habits, drink less, smoke more, exercise more, stay up late less, and have regular physical examinations. Besides, if you want a healthy liver, you should stay away from these four foods:
High fat food
Professor Zhu, deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Hepatology Committee, believes that the liver is the hub for transporting fat in the human body. Some fat after digestion and absorption will enter the liver and then be converted into body fat for storage.
When you are hungry, the stored body fat will be transported to the liver for decomposition. If you eat too much high-fat food, fat metabolism is prone to disorder, leading to fat accumulation in the liver and fatty liver. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce high-fat foods and fried and fried foods.
Uncooked food
Studies have found that half-baked food often carries a lot of bacteria, liver flukes and so on. It is easy to cause dysentery, acute gastroenteritis and other diseases, and even aggravate liver disease and induce liver coma, so you should cook the food thoroughly before eating.
Mildew food
Studies have found that moldy food contaminated by mold can produce carcinogenic mycotoxins, such as aflatoxin, which is extremely harmful to the liver and easily induces liver cancer.
The foods most susceptible to mold contamination are corn, peanuts, rice and peanut oil. If the food is moldy, it must be discarded and cannot be eaten. You can't eat any more if you remove the moldy part.
alcohol
After alcohol enters the human body, most of it will be metabolized in the liver. As the main component of alcohol, it will be oxidized into acetaldehyde after entering liver cells. Both acetaldehyde and ethanol can directly stimulate liver cells, causing fatty degeneration and even necrosis of liver cells.
Therefore, long-term heavy drinking is easy to cause alcoholic liver disease. If the liver is damaged, many functions of the body will also be affected, such as metabolism, detoxification, filtration, immunity, blood coagulation, bile production and excretion.
In summer, because of the hot weather, people are easily upset and their liver is easily damaged by mood swings. So, how can we protect the liver in summer?
Press the point of protecting liver.
Massage the point of protecting the liver can directly protect the liver. The liver-protecting point is located at the midpoint between the breasts. Put your hands together and press Zhongwan point up and down for 30 times, which can stimulate thymus, enhance immunity and relax qi.
In addition, Zusanli point is also a common point for protecting the liver. You can tap Zusanli with your fist and nourish your liver.
Do liver protection exercise
Hold a thigh root tightly with both hands, then rub it down to the ankle with a little force, and then rub it up to the leg root. Or you can directly knead the calf, hold one side of the calf with the palms of your hands, and then rotate and knead.
Close your eyes.
Eyes are connected with the liver, which controls eyes and stores blood, so nourishing eyes can nourish the liver. Fix a big object in the distance first; As a goal, the eyeball goes from left to right, then to the bottom, and finally to the left, completing a big circle.
Don't move your head when you do it, but move your eyes. After turning 10, turning 10 in the opposite direction can effectively improve vision and relieve eye fatigue, so closing your eyes when your eyes are tired can achieve the effect of nourishing the liver.
As an important organ of human body, we must pay attention to protect the liver, pay attention to the abnormal signals sent by the liver, and check the health of the liver regularly.
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