Early symptoms of cirrhosis

The early symptoms of cirrhosis patients include fatigue, physical decline, abdominal distension, and often accompanied by constipation and diarrhea. When you find that your body shows these symptoms, you should go to the hospital for further diagnosis.

1. Systemic symptoms: mainly fatigue, easy tiredness, and physical loss. A small number of patients may experience facial pigmentation.

2. Symptoms of chronic indigestion: decreased appetite, abdominal distension or accompanied by constipation, diarrhea or dull pain in the liver area, which is more obvious after fatigue.

3. Thin and dark face. More than one-third of patients with chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis have darker skin on their face and around their eyes than before the disease. This is due to decreased liver function, which leads to increased melanin production.

4. Early symptoms of cirrhosis may also include breast swelling and testicular shrinkage. The liver plays an important role in the balance of sex hormones in the human blood. Since the early symptoms of cirrhosis are increased estrogen and decreased androgen, men may experience enlarged and tender breasts and testicular atrophy. For women, sex hormones are disrupted during cirrhosis, and the early symptoms of cirrhosis can also cause menstrual disorders, breast shrinkage, and sparse pubic hair.

5. Spider nevi may be seen in a few cases of early symptoms of cirrhosis, and the liver may be mildly to moderately enlarged, which is more common in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis and is generally painless. The spleen may be normal or slightly enlarged.

Up to now, Western medicine still has no specific drugs to treat liver cirrhosis, and traditional Chinese medicine treatment of liver cirrhosis is still the mainstream trend. Traditional Chinese medicine can inhibit or even reverse early-stage liver cirrhosis. The key lies in whether it can be treated promptly and effectively.