Liver damage is not a matter of a day or two. If the body 'complains' in these 4 ways, please don't delay
Many types of hepatitis may go through the stage of liver cirrhosis. At this time, the patient's liver has been severely damaged. Nursing work is required during the period. If you still ignore it, you will develop into a more serious liver disease in just a few years. In the end, your precious body may be damaged. They will all be tossed out of shape. Patients with liver cirrhosis should pay more attention to their own symptoms. When there are 4 phenomena, they need to be hospitalized.
- A change in mind
Sudden changes in the patient's mood, such as becoming very excited, irritable, unclear speech, abnormal behavior, insomnia, memory and comprehension decline, which are symptoms of hepatic coma. His calculation ability is weakened, he can't answer questions correctly, he is in a trance, and he even appears insane. Once you find the above symptoms, you need to seek medical attention immediately. As long as you enter the coma period, it will increase the difficulty of treatment.
- Bleeding tendency
Patients with cirrhosis are often accompanied by bleeding, which can be directly observed by the naked eye if there are ecchymosis on the skin, mucous gums, and nose bleeding. However, gastrointestinal bleeding is not easy to be found. If the fecal occult blood is positive, it means that the intestinal bleeding exceeds 5 ml. Finding tarry stools indicates that the amount of bleeding exceeds 50 ml. At this time, you need to seek medical attention immediately, and you may lose your life at any time. The causes of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis are divided into duodenal ulcer and gastric ulcer. It may also be caused by gastric mucosal erosion, gastric fundus varices or esophageal varices. If bleeding from the nose and gums and ecchymosis occur repeatedly in a short period of time, it means that the blood coagulation mechanism is impaired, and you need to go to the hospital for examination immediately.
- Obstinate abdominal distension
Patients with liver cirrhosis have high portal pressure, resulting in gastrointestinal congestion and edema, abnormal secretion of digestive juices, resulting in poor digestion and absorption of food, which is fermented and corrupted in the intestinal tract, eventually causing abdominal distension. If the bloating problem still does not improve after adjusting the diet and taking digestive aids, you need to seek medical treatment in time. Especially when it is accompanied by decreased urine output, it may be accompanied by hepatic ascites. It is necessary to find out the cause in time and then actively treat it.
- Abdominal pain
Once a patient with liver cirrhosis has abdominal pain, he needs to be hospitalized in time. Various factors can cause abdominal pain, such as portal phlebitis, primary peritonitis, or portal vein thrombosis. Primary peritonitis is the most dangerous, which is one of the causes of death due to liver cirrhosis. one. In addition to abdominal pain, it is also accompanied by abdominal tenderness, nausea and vomiting, and persistent fever.
When patients with liver cirrhosis have the above four symptoms, they should not hesitate to seek medical treatment in time. In addition, when there is a high degree of loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, decreased urine output, and abdominal distension, it means that the remaining normal liver cells have undergone necrosis. In this case, timely medical treatment is also required.