Liver damage is not a matter of one or two days. If the body 'complains' in these 4 ways, please don't delay
Many hepatitis may go through the stage of cirrhosis. At this time, the patient's liver has been severely damaged, and care needs to be done during the period. If it is still ignored, it will develop into a more serious liver disease in just a few years, and ultimately the precious body may be Will be tossed to the point where it doesn't look like it. Patients with liver cirrhosis should pay more attention to their own symptoms, and hospitalization is required when there are 4 phenomena.
- Changes in mind
Sudden changes in the patient's mood, such as becoming abnormally excited, irritable, slurred speech, abnormal behavior, insomnia, loss of memory and comprehension, are symptoms of hepatic coma. Their computing power is weakened, they cannot answer questions correctly, and they are in a trance or even insanity. Once you find the above symptoms, you need to seek medical attention immediately, as long as you enter the coma, it will increase the difficulty of treatment.
- Bleeding tendency
Patients with cirrhosis are often accompanied by bleeding that can be directly observed with the naked eye if there is ecchymosis on the skin, mucogingival and nose bleeding. However, gastrointestinal bleeding is not easy to be detected. If the fecal occult blood is positive, it means that the intestinal bleeding exceeds 5 ml. The discovery of 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 ulcers and gastric ulcers, and may also be caused by gastric mucosal erosion, gastric varices or esophageal varices. If nose and gum bleeding and skin ecchymosis occur repeatedly within a short period of time, it means that the coagulation mechanism is impaired, and you need to go to the hospital for examination immediately.
- Intractable bloating
Patients with liver cirrhosis have high portal pressure, causing congestion and edema in the gastrointestinal tract, abnormal secretion of digestive juices, resulting in poor digestion and absorption of food, which is fermented and putrefied in the intestines, eventually causing abdominal distension. If the bloating problem still does not improve after adjusting the diet and using digestive aids, you need to seek medical attention in time. Especially when accompanied by decreased urine output, it may be accompanied by hepatic ascites, and the cause should be found out in time, and then actively treated.
- Abdominal pain
If patients with liver cirrhosis have abdominal pain, they should be hospitalized in time. Many factors can cause abdominal pain, such as portal phlebitis, primary peritonitis or portal vein thrombosis, etc., especially primary peritonitis is the most dangerous, which is one of the reasons for the death of liver cirrhosis. one. In addition to abdominal pain, abdominal tenderness, nausea and vomiting, and persistent fever were also present.
Patients with liver cirrhosis should not hesitate to seek medical attention in time when the above four symptoms appear. In addition, when there is a high degree of loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, decreased urine output and abdominal distension, it indicates that the residual normal liver cells are necrotic, and in this case, timely medical treatment is required.