The liver is the most important detoxification and metabolic organ of the human body, and there are more than 500 kinds of biotransformation processes that occur inside the liver.
However, the liver is not indestructible, and there are many factors in life that can lead to liver damage, such as various viral infections, unhealthy diets and living habits, etc., which will damage liver cells and promote chronic liver disease.
Because the liver's own compensatory capacity is very strong and there is no internal nerve distribution, patients basically have no typical symptoms in the early stage of liver disease.
In particular, more serious liver diseases, such as cirrhosis, cancer, etc., patients may not have any symptoms in the early stage, and when the disease is serious and the symptoms are obvious, the patient has already missed the best time for diagnosis and treatment.
So the question is, what are the manifestations that may be liver disease to find its own signal?
1. Progressive fatigue and fatigue
The liver is a place for the synthesis, storage and conversion of nutrients, and there are many essential substances that need to be synthesized or stored in the liver, including cholinesterase, apolipoproteins, fat-soluble vitamins and so on.
When liver function continues to decline, the production of cholinesterase will decrease, while glucose metabolism disorders, vitamin E and vitamin B deficiency, coupled with insufficient protein production, which will lead to neuro-muscle conduction dysfunction, muscle swelling, fatigue and fatigue and other symptoms, which is also one of the common symptoms of hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer patients;
2. Decreased appetite
The liver is not only a place for the conversion and storage of nutrients, but also the bile secreted by the liver also plays a role in neutralizing stomach acid and assisting digestion and absorption. When liver function is destroyed, patients may have symptoms similar to gastrointestinal diseases, the most common symptoms are decreased appetite, anglophilia, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Especially after eating a lot of greasy food, patients will have obvious indigestion, and sometimes it may be accompanied by fat malabsorption and stealaxative diarrhea;
3. Pain in the liver area
If liver disease is combined with problems such as hematogeniture and liver deformation, it may lead to pain in the liver area. This pain is manifested by paroxysmal eruptions in the right or middle upper quadrant, persistent dull pain, and distension.
However, this pain sensation is not emitted by the liver itself, but the liver is involved in a membrane covered by the surface, which is clinically called the liver envelope, because there is an appropriate amount of nerve distribution on the liver envelope, so it causes the patient to have pain in the liver area;
4. Jaundice
No matter what kind of liver disease, as long as it destroys the function of liver cells, it may cause jaundice. Because the orange-yellow substance "bilirubin" produced by the internal metabolism of the human body needs to be metabolized in the liver and participates in the production of bile.
When bilirubin metabolism is impaired and bile cannot be discharged smoothly, a large amount of bilirubin will accumulate and swim in the blood, resulting in abnormal yellow staining of the patient's facial skin, sclera, mucosa and other areas. At the same time, patients may also have a number of abnormal symptoms such as deepening the color of urine and clay color of stool.
If you have the above four manifestations in the near future, especially if there is an inexplicable gastrointestinal abnormality, liver pain or jaundice, this may be a signal of the arrival of liver disease, and the patient should seek medical attention in time for examination, which includes liver function screening, liver imaging tests, etc.
Once liver disease is diagnosed, aggressive treatment is necessary to avoid the irreversible severity of the disease.