Is liver inflammation serious?

Once the liver becomes inflamed, we often say that the person has hepatitis. Nowadays, hepatitis has become a relatively common disease in this society and has been plaguing the health of many people. Many people do not have enough understanding of the harmful effects of liver inflammation, which results in neglecting the disease, aggravating the progression of the disease and ultimately causing regret. Therefore, we must take hepatitis very seriously, take a positive attitude to treat it, and avoid delaying the disease.

1. Affects appetite

After suffering from liver disease, patients often feel unwilling to eat and have no appetite. Occasionally, there may be bloating or discomfort, nausea, aversion to greasy food, and fullness after eating.

2. Cirrhosis

Early liver disease is mostly hepatitis, the main cause of which is damage to the human liver caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, chemical poisons, etc. Hepatitis is mainly chronic hepatitis, which is divided into chronic viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, drug-toxic hepatitis, hereditary diseases and other chronic hepatitis of unknown causes according to etiology. In the middle stage, it will generally develop into cirrhosis, and if not treated in time, it will eventually deteriorate into liver cancer.

3. Causes a variety of diseases

The harm of liver disease is not limited to the liver itself, it can also cause many other diseases. Common ones include diabetes, pancreatitis, biliary tract infection, functional renal failure, biliary nephropathy, glomerulonephritis, renal tubular acidosis, hemolytic anemia, regeneration

4. Bleeding bias

The bleeding phenomenon of liver disease is manifested in the decreased liver function, which reduces the synthesis of coagulation factors. It can easily cause bleeding gums, hemorrhoids, gastrointestinal bleeding, etc. in patients with liver disease, and the bleeding is difficult to stop.

5. Hepatic ascites

Ascites usually occurs in the late stage of liver disease or when the condition is extremely serious. For example, the presence of ascites in cirrhosis indicates that the disease has entered the late stage.

6. Whole body

The main manifestations are that the skin surface on the face or other parts of the body is yellower than that of normal people, dry mouth, dry or loose stools, yellow urine, or low fever, physical fatigue, dizziness, tinnitus, sallow and dull complexion, etc. When the bilirubin concentration in the blood continues to increase. Can cause jaundice of the eyes and skin. Due to the excretion disorder of bile acid, the concentration of bile acid in the blood increases and excess bile acid is deposited in the skin. Stimulates peripheral nerves and causes skin itching.

7. Hepatic encephalopathy

What harm does liver disease do to the patient's body? This is a manifestation of liver disease developing to the terminal stage. The symptoms are extremely severe and it is one of the most important causes of death from liver disease.

8. Portal hypertension

Portal hypertension refers to a drop in pressure in the portal venous system. It often causes esophageal varices and is the primary cause of gastrointestinal bleeding.