Liver diseases are not spoken very often in today's society. It is a quiet killer with many symptoms. Statistically, the liver is rapidly increasing in today's world as a cruel and cruel disease for our eating habits and lifestyle.
Liver disease can be caused by many different circumstances. There are some causes such as drinking alcohol, drug abuse, excessive use of tylenol, hepatitis, obesity, etc.
If it is not treated properly at an early stage, liver disease may kill you. Periodic blood tests can indicate whether the liver is functioning well or not. You should ask your doctor regularly to check your liver function.
Very healthy meals, refraining from drinking, exercise promotes good liver function.
Symptoms vary depending on the type and degree of liver disease. In many cases, there are no symptoms at all, or there may be some or all of these symptoms. Urine is thick, bilirubin value is high, nausea, anorexia, weight loss or weight gain, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain in the upper right part of the abdomen,
Other symptoms are sick emotions, abdominal enlarged blood vessels (portal hypertension), fatigue, or hypoglycemia. Muscle pain and pain, loss of sexual activity, jaundice, pale shade of stool, abdominal distension and swelling.
As you can see, the symptoms of liver disease mimic many other diseases and diseases, and vice versa.
In alcoholic liver disease my husband possesses, there are four stages. Stage 1 is fatty liver, stage 2 is alcoholic hepatitis, stage 3 is liver fibrosis, stage 4 is liver cirrhosis, sometimes liver cancer.
The symptoms of my husband's alcoholic liver disease were initially very subtle. They mimicked influenza, fatigue, drowsiness, heart disease, obesity, muscle pain and weakness during exercise, and cloudiness due to depression.
My husband has been drunk for several years. He quit himself himself after the doctor told him that he had moderate cirrhosis of the liver. The doctor warned that if he did not stop drinking, he could die in a few years. At that time, he was diagnosed with fatty liver, Barrett's esophagus, portal hypertension, and blunted kidney.
Specialists recommended to my husband to lose weight to slow down the disease. From drinking too much alcohol, he went to eat out his favorite food such as hamburgers, cheeseburger, sweets. He seemed to replace his alcoholism with an unhealthy food choice. We now also know that food of his kind will participate in the destruction of the liver.
Now three years later, last week, he received a diagnosis of stage 4 cirrhosis. It came so soon!
He had some of the symptoms in the past few years and I did not know how bad the disease is. He gradually began to gain more weight, he was very swollen in the legs, legs, and abdomen. We just thought that this was due to his poor diet.
Suddenly the symptoms of encephalopathy (swelling of the brain due to brain toxin) occurred several weeks ago, just hospitalized. He was very frightening to see sick very much. He does not remember anything about the first 24 hours going there. He was talking from seriously ill. He failed to be consistent and did not notice that he was not sick. He stayed in a hospital for several days until they stabilized them. Then he came home by medication. It was my responsibility to take care of him even if he was not sharp again.
In the hospital, it was introduced to a new liver specialist as an outpatient. When I saw a specialist, he said he was straight with us, John was now suffering from liver cirrhosis in stage 4 of the liver. He told me that my husband needs to lose 100 pounds in six months to qualify for entering the liver transplant list.
Now he has to strive to lose weight, most of it is water, keeping a special, very strict liver feed. He takes 7 1/2 water pills a day and a large amount of lactulose (a medicine that removes high ammonia level body through the intestines) so that the brain does not swell.
I was inspired by my husband to write such articles as my husband had drunk this terrible ill for years. Warn your friends and loved ones to note the cause of liver disease and its many symptoms.
Regarding these themes, I visit many sites on the Internet.
Here is a couple: http: //www.medicinenet.com/liver_disease/article.htm
http://www.webmd.com/search/search_results/default.aspx?query=liver%20disease&sourceType=undefined
