What diseases can appear quietly and develop without any specific symptoms? The answer is only four big words: chronic liver disease!
The reason for this is that the liver is a very special organ, although its main function is metabolism and detoxification, but its biotransformation involves multiple systems of the human body, including digestion and absorption, coagulation system, endocrine and so on.
It is precisely because the liver work is very complex, creating a strong compensatory capacity of the liver, and there is no peripheral nerve distribution inside the liver.
Therefore, there are many chronic liver diseases, such as chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis or cancer, etc., which basically have no typical symptoms in the early stage.
Even if there are mild symptoms, it is difficult for patients to associate with liver lesions, and most of them think that they have just developed gastrointestinal diseases, and then neglect to check and treat the liver.
As everyone knows, when the following symptoms come to you, it may be a manifestation of the arrival of liver disease:
1. Epigastric dull pain: although the liver lacks peripheral nerves, around the liver, there are a large number of nerves and receptors distributed, and the envelope covered by the surface of the liver also has nerve distribution, and they are interconnected with the diaphragm nerve, which belongs to the spinal cord sensory nerve innervation.
When the liver has lesions, it may cause hepatitis, hyperemia and swelling, the liver envelope is extremely propped open, and after the tight liver envelope stimulates the nerves, it will produce swelling pain, dull pain and heavy pressure in the right upper abdomen;
2. Loss of appetite: in the advanced stage of liver disease, patients may have gastrointestinal symptoms similar to chronic gastrointestinal diseases;
For example, patients will have worse and worse appetite, especially if they have no interest in greasy food, and patients will also have bloating after meals, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea and other manifestations.
The reason for this is related to the continuous decline in liver function affecting bile secretion, gastrointestinal congestion and other factors, the more serious the liver disease, the more obvious the gastrointestinal symptoms will be;
3. Unexplained nosebleeds: There is a perfect hemolysis and coagulation mechanism in the human body, and the operation of the coagulation system mainly relies on two parts, namely platelets and coagulation factors.
Inside the human body, there are 12 coagulation factors, most of which are actually produced in the liver.
Therefore, when liver function continues to weaken, patients may be accompanied by different degrees of bleeding tendencies, the most common manifestation of which is that patients may have nosebleeds, bleeding gums, purpura, subcutaneous ecchymosis and other symptoms;
4, endocrine abnormalities: the various hormones produced inside the human body, most of which will enter the liver after completing the role, will enter the liver inactivated and decomposed, including estrogen.
When the liver function continues to decline, estrogen inactivation will be impaired, and the patient's adrenal gland and hypothalamus function will also be affected to varying degrees;
It then induces a series of endocrine abnormalities, such as the appearance of liver disease facial features, liver palms, spider moles and other symptoms, all of which are caused by endocrine abnormalities;
5, intraperitoneal effusion: the so-called intraperitoneal effusion, in fact, is commonly known as ascites, it will appear in patients with severe liver disease, such as cirrhosis decompensation period, severe fatty liver, liver cancer in the middle and advanced stages, etc., patients may have abdominal effusion.
Intraperitoneal effusion due to liver disease, also known clinically as hepatic ascites, is closely related to multiple factors such as portal hypertension, hypoproteinemia, and excessive lymph production.
In addition to the above symptoms, liver disease may also be accompanied by jaundice, wasting, progressive fatigue, and fatigue.
If similar symptoms have recently recurred, but you can't find a specific reason, and there is no relief after taking the relevant drugs, this is likely to be the manifestation that liver disease has arrived, and it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time for related examinations.