Symptoms of liver disease

The liver is a marvelous laboratory of our body. Every day, it performs a number of complex functions. The liver participates in the removal of toxins from our body produces bile, participate in the digestion of food, the deposit of vitamins, protein production and coagulation factors. Liver, with the kidneys is the main organ that protects us from toxic and harmful substances. The liver has great recovery, and unfortunately the symptoms of liver disease usually detected at an advanced stage.

Liver Health
Liver (lat.hepar) is located below the right rib cage, in the right upper abdomen. Is the largest internal organ. It weighs about 1.5 pounds and has a large number of blood vessels, causing all of the injuries of the liver accompanied by massive bleeding. The liver is the organ without which man can not live. Unlike other organs that can not be selfrecovery, the liver has a high capacity for regeneration. Liver health largely depends on the way we live. The fact is that many of us terrorizes her own body toxins, cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, unhealthy and greasy fast food, preservatives.
Special danger to the liver is often taking medications, according to their own choice, without consulting a doctor.

Symptoms of liver disease and occur in a wide variety of different combinations. The most common are fatigue, insomnia, headaches, depression, indigestion, constipation, nausea, bloating, mood changes, stomach pain. The symptoms listed above are not specific only for liver disease, but I can certainly point to the fact that there are problems. Symptoms that are typical of liver disease, unfortunately occurring at an advanced stage. These are the yellowing of the skin (jaundice, icterus), decreased muscle mass, breast enlargement in men (gynecomastia), bad breath, reduced hairiness, bleeding tendency, swollen abdomen, swollen legs, blurred consciousness. The final stage of the liver, liver (hepatic) coma.

Liver failure can be acute and chronic. Most often when the disease does not move from acute to chronic phase, the liver is completely healed. If the disease passes from acute to chronic form, as is often the case with hepatitis B and C, the functional reserve of the liver is slowly depleted, normal liver tissue is converted to scarring (fibrosis), destroy the anatomy of the liver and bloodstream and develop chronic liver failure, usually in the form of cirrhosis.
Cirrhosis of the liver rapidly leads to liver failure and the only solution is a liver transplant, which no one would wish.
Therefore, my friends think of your health, take your liver, amazing lab in our body. 

Symptoms of liver disease

Liver disease is expressed in many different ways. Indicators of liver diseases that are of particular importance as jaundice, cholestasis, increased liver, portal hypertension, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy and liver failure.

Liver disease doctor diagnosed based on symptoms described by patients and physical examination.

The main clinical symptoms of liver disease

Jaundice (icterus)

Enlarged liver (hepatomegaly)

The fluid in the abdomen (ascites)

Confusion because of encephalopathy

Gastrointestinal bleeding due to varices

Portaina hypertension

Skin

• Varicose veins like spider

• Red palms

• ruddy appearance

• Itching

Blood

• Reduced number of red blood cells (anemia)

• Reduced number of white blood cells (leukopenia)

• Reduced number of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia)

• A tendency to bleed (coagulopathy)

Hormones

• High levels of insulin, but the weak response to it

• Cessation of menstruation and decreased fertility (in women)

• Impotence and effeminate appearance (in men)

Heart and blood vessels

• The acceleration of heart rate and amount of blood ejected

• Reduced blood pressure (hypotension)

General symptoms

• Fatigue

• Weakness

• Weight loss

• Poor appetite

• Nausea

• Fever

Icterus

(Jaundice)

• Introduction • Symptoms • Diagnosis and Treatment

Introduction

Jaundice is a yellow discoloration of the skin and scleral (white of the eye) caused by abnormally high levels of bile pigment bilirubin in the blood stream.

Old or damaged red blood cells (erythrocytes) from the circulation largely removes the spleen. During this procedure, hemoglobin, red blood cells of which carries oxygen, is decomposed into

bilirubin. Bilirubin is transferred to the liver and excreted into the intestine as a component of bile. If the excretion of bilirubin is disabled, the excess bilirubin passes into the bloodstream, which results in the formation of jaundice.

High levels of bilirubin in the blood may be due to inflammation or other abnormalities of liver cells, which prevents the excretion of bilirubin in the bile. Alternatively, bile ducts outside the liver may be blocked gallstone or tumor. Less frequently high levels of bilirubin may result from destruction of a large number of red blood cells, as sometimes occurs in newborns with jaundice.

In Gilbert's syndrome, the bilirubin level was slightly elevated, but usually not enough to cause jaundice. It is sometimes hereditary condition usually discovered during a routine search results (screening) of liver function, the state has no other symptoms or causes problems.

Symptoms

In jaundice the skin and whites of the eyes yellow. The urine is often dark because of bilirubin excretion by the kidneys. There are also other symptoms depending on the cause of jaundice, for example. liver inflammation (hepatitis) can cause loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and fever. Stopping the bile can cause symptoms of cholestasis.

Diagnosis and Treatment

To determine the cause of jaundice doctor uses laboratory tests and imaging tests. If the problem is the disease of the liver, for example. viral hepatitis, jaundice will usually disappear as the state of liver repair. If the problem is in the common bile duct occlusion, it is usually as quickly as possible to do surgery or endoscopy (a procedure using flexible tubes to observe the surgical connections) to be blocked bile path to reopen.