The best foods for a healthy liver

The liver every day coming into contact with a hazardous toxins to be removed from our bodies. Our central laboratory has many other functions such as the synthesis of proteins, hormones and blood coagulation factors. The liver is also a storehouse of vitamins and iron. The human body is the perfection of nature, but sometimes needs our help. 

This is a list of foods that will keep your liver healthy.
For the health of the liver, but also the entire body, you need to eat fruits and vegetables, such as bananas, tomatoes, plums and grapes. Try to eat a few almonds daily. Provide your body enough water.

For detoxification of the liver are the best fresh juices of carrot, beetroot, radicchio and dandelion.
Artichoke, milk thistle and burdock contains plenty of silymarin and inulin which are grat for the liver. When inflammation of the liver as a drug used milk thistle extract. Artichoke contains cynarin which is great for people who have fatty liver. The above cynarin and caffeic acid, which are found in the artichokes are extremely strong hepatoprotective effect. 

Artichoke is the best choice for a healthy liver. 


Inulin is a fiber which helps bowel movement, which is very important for optimal liver function, because each constipation or constipation, a potential danger to the liver. In addition, inulin is a natural probiotic, or food that aids the function of the good intestinal bacteria. Encouraging their growth and development and preventing the growth and development of pathogenic bacteria, inulin is often added probiotics in fermented dairy products, which can be found in stores. 

Garlic is a natural antibiotic. It has powerful antibacterial and antiviral effect, reduces the harmful cholesterol in the blood. Garlic contains sulfur compounds that assist in detoxification of heavy metals. Olive oil and garlic are the guarantee for good health. 


Fruits that are rich in pectin, such as apples and pears, effectively lowers cholesterol. Pectins are, in fact, binding of the bile acid and thus helps knockdown values ​​and decreasing liver cholesterol. Day in the body to enter about 25 g of ballast substances, therefore need to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables such as plums, citrus, legumes, oats, rice, cabbage and cauliflower. Legumes such as peas and beans are a rich source of the amino acid arginine, which helps detoxify ammonia. Ammonia occurs in our bodies daily protein breakdown and liver effectively removes him. 

Green vegetables are a source of chlorophyll, great cleaners of your  liver.  Chlorophyll has antioxidant effect and protects against cancer. Very useful for liver consuming juice thistle. Silymarin from thistle has a beneficial effect on the liver. For thousands of years, the thistle is used for liver protection. 
Silymarin is effective in liver damage caused by alcohol and drugs, with gallstones and fungal diseases. It has strong anti-inflammatory effect. 


These are the foods that yout liver likes:

• fruits (without limitation)
• vegetables (cooking, use olive oil)
• low-fat vegetable soup
• cheese of skimmed milk
• eggs (maximum of 3 per week)
• poultry, chicken, turkey and veal
• fish
• olive oil
• honey (chestnut)
• homemade jams without additives or preservatives
• Teas (burdock, sage, mint, fruit and vegetables)

In addition to the dietary changes you can use: 

• B vitamins,  who restored the liver
• Vitamin C, which neutralize toxins and act as an antioxidant
• lecithin and phospholipids to prevent the storage of fat in the liver
• pollen and propolis, protect the liver from alcohol and neutralize free radicals
• silymarin

How to keep your liver healthy?

The liver is a central laboratory in our body. It is the organ which  through the majority of poison, which she eliminate in a magical way, professionally  removed, in order to live. It has a great ability to repair itself when is damaged and has a high capacity for regeneration. 

Our liver is overworked with the many daily duties: producing proteins, clotting factors, preserves vitamins and iron, liver is  involved in the digestion of food, metabolise fat, eliminate toxins and other harmful substances accidentally or intentionally into our body. The liver is also involved in the regulation of blood sugar and participates in the maintenance of optimal amounts of hormones in our body. 

We are often ruthless, to our liver, and she so carefully guard our health, even when we sleep it is hard at work. Symptoms of liver damage are the most common: chronic fatigue, insomnia, depression, headaches, itchy skin, yellow skin, migraines, mood swings, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, flatulence, loss of appetite, and in advanced stages of yellowing of the skin, swelling of legs and abdomen. 

Save your liver, discard bad habits, alcohol, coffee, drugs, fatty and fried foods, cigarettes and similar poisons. Eat olive oil, pumpkin oil, and fruits and vegetables without pesticides. 

There are certain foods that take care of your liver, even when it is quite corrupt: These are cheese, yogurt, beets, whey, cranberries, blueberries and artichokes. 

Dandelion, Licorice, Milk Thistle, gentian and tincture of white mallow are great friends of your liver, in small doses, of course. In life  anything should not be exaggerated. 
Remember that our body is perfect, in the most cases our body has the ability to regenerate and recover when damaged, but remember everything has its limits! 
Have a  nice day my friends! 

Tumors of the liver

Liver tumors can be non-cancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant). Cancer tumors can occur in the liver and can spread to the liver (metastasize) from other parts of the body. Cancer that occurs in the liver is called primary liver cancer, cancer that arises elsewhere in the body is called metastatic cancer. The vast majority of cancers are metastatic liver tumors. 

Non-cancerous liver tumors are relatively common but usually cause no symptoms. Most of them can detect when people do for some other reason, a search-imaging such as ultrasound, computed tomogranja (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, some of these tumors leads to an increase in liver or bleeding into the abdominal cavity. Liver function is usually normal and blood tests show normal or only mildly elevated levels of liver enzymes.

Hepatocellular adenoma

Hepatocellular adenoma is a common non-cancerous tumor of the liver.

Hepatocellular adenomas occur mainly in women of childbearing age, probably because oral contraceptives increase the risk of this type of neoplasm. These tumors usually cause no symptoms, so most of them remain undetected.

There was rarely an adenoma suddenly bursts and bleeds into the abdominal cavity, which requires an urgent surgical procedure. Adenomas that cause oral contraceptives often disappear when a woman stops taking the drug.In extremely rare cases, an adenoma can become cancerous tumor.

Hemangioma

Hemangion a non-cancerous liver tumor composed of clusters of abnormal blood vessels.

It is estimated that 1% - 5% of adults have small liver hemangiomas that cause no symptoms. These tumors are usually discovered only if the person happens to be subjected to search UZ-mail or CT. Not require treatment. In young children a large hemangioma sometimes cause symptoms that are detected, such as widespread (diffuse) clotting and heart failure. May require surgery.

HEPATO

Hepatotoxicity (hepatocellular carcinoma) is cancer that begins in cells of the liver.

Hepatoma are the most common type of cancer that originates in the liver (primary liver cancer). In some areas of Africa and Southeast Asia hepatoma are even more common than metastatic liver cancer and highlight the cause of death. In these areas there is a high prevalence of chronic infection with hepatitis B, which increases the risk of hepatoma in more than 100 times.

Chronic infection with hepatitis C also increases the risk of hepatoma. Finally some substances that cause cancer (carcinogens) created hepatoma. In subtropical areas in which the hepatoma tissue, food is often contaminated with carcinogens called aflatoxins, substances produced by certain types of fungi.

In North America, Europe and other regions of the world, in which the hepatoma rare, most people with hepatoma were alcoholics with liver cirrhosis, long-term. Additional types of cirrhosis are also associated with hepatoma, although in conjunction with primary biliary cirrhosis risk is lower than with other types of cirrhosis.

Fibrolamelarni carcinoma is a rare type of hepatoma, which usually affects young adults. It is not caused by the preceding cirrhosis, hepatitis B or C or other known risk factors.

Symptoms

Usually the first symptoms of hepatoma abdominal pain, weight loss and large clusters that can be felt in the upper abdomen. Another possibility is that a person who has long had cirrhosis may unexpectedly become sick. It is a common fever. Sometimes the first symptoms of acute abdominal pain and shock caused by rupture or bleeding of the tumor.

Diagnosis

In people with hepatoma are typically elevated levels of alpha-fetoprotein levels. Sometimes blood tests show low levels of glucose or high levels of calcium, lipid, or an increased number of red blood cells.

Initially, the symptoms do not give the key to diagnosis. However, once the liver is increased enough to be felt, the doctor may suspect the diagnosis, especially if a person has long-term cirrhosis. Sometimes the doctor may hear loud sounds (hepatic noises) and the sounds of reefs (friction due to rubbing or crepitation) stethoscope placed over the liver.

Ultrasound and CT of the abdomen above can sometimes detect cancer that has not yet caused symptoms. In some countries where hepatitis B virus is common, such as Japan, ultrasound is used for the examinations for the purpose of sifting (screening, screening) infection in people with liver cancer. Hepatic arteriography (Elo made after the hepatic artery radiokonstrastne injectable substances) may indicate the hepatoma. Arteriography of the liver is especially useful prior to surgical removal of hepatoma, because it shows the surgeon the exact accommodation blood vessels of the liver.

A liver biopsy can confirm the diagnosis. The risk of bleeding or other injuries in liver biopsies are generally low.

Prognosis and treatment

Usually the prognosis for people with hepatoma weak, because the tumor is detected too late. Sometimes people with small tumors recovered after the tumor is surgically removed.

Second primary liver cancer

• cholangio cancer that arises from the lining of bile ducts in the liver or bile ducts. In the Orient, infestation of parasitic worms called the liver, may be partly responsible for this cancer. People with long-term ulcerative colitis and sclerosing cholangitis occasionally develop cholangio.

• hepatoblastoma is one of the more common cancers in young children. Sometimes it occurs in older children and can produce hormones called gonadotropins, which results in an early (premature) puberty. Hepatoblastoma is usually detected because of the general deterioration of health and large clusters (formation) in the upper right abdomen.

• angiosarcoma is a rare cancer that occurs in blood vessels of the liver. Angiosarcoma can arise from exposure to vinyl chloride in the workplace.

Diagnosis and Treatment

Holangiokarcinomi, hepatoblastoma and angiosarkomi can be diagnosed only by biopsy of the liver with a needle to take a sample of liver tissue for examination under a microscope.

Usually the treatment is of little value, and most people die within a few months since the discovery of the tumor.However, if cancer is detected very early, the tumor can be surgically removed with the hope of long-term survival.

METASTATIC LIVER CANCER

Metastatic liver cancer is cancer that has spread to the liver from elsewhere in the body.

Metastatic liver cancer most commonly occurs in the lung, breast, colon, pancreas and stomach. Can affect the liver and leukemia and other blood cell cancers such as lymphoma. Sometimes the discovery of metastatic liver tumors first indication that a person has cancer.

Symptoms

Often the first symptoms include weight loss and poor appetite. Typically, the liver is enlarged and hard, and may be sensitive to the touch. There may be an increased body temperature. Sometimes the enlarged spleen, especially if the cancer comes from the pancreas. Abdominal cavity can be expanded due to the presence of free fluid, a condition called ascites.

Initially there is mild jaundice or until the cancer is not clogged bile ducts. For weeks before his death, jaundice becomes stronger. A person can also become confused and sleepy with an accumulation of toxins in the brain, a condition called hepatic encephalopathy. ®

Diagnosis

In later stages of the disease, the doctor can usually diagnose metastatic liver cancer rather easily, but the diagnosis is difficult in the early stages. Cancer may indicate U.S., CT and MRI, but these imaging results can not always detect small tumors or to distinguish tumor from liver and other abnormalities.

Tumors often cause poor liver function that can detect a blood test.

Liver biopsy confirmed the diagnosis in 75% of cases. A biopsy can be performed under control with a chance to get to the cancerous tissue was higher. Another way of taking a biopsy sample is laparoscopy (fiber optic viewing tube that is inserted into the abdominal wall).

Leukemia is usually diagnosed based on results of blood tests and bone marrow. Typically, liver biopsy is not needed.

Treatment

Depending on the type (type) of cancer, cancer drugs can temporarily reduce the tumor and prolong life, but they do not cure cancer. Drugs against cancer can be injected into the hepatic artery, which then dispatches a high concentration of drugs directly into cancer cells in the liver. This technique will likely reduce the tumor and produce fewer side effects, but has not been proven to prolong life. Radiation therapy of the liver can sometimes reduce the severe pain, but brings little improvement.

If the liver is found in only one tumor, the surgeon can remove it, especially if it stems from colon cancer. However, not all experts believe such an operation worth taking.

For most people with varicose cancer, all the doctor can do is relieve the symptoms,

Laboratory tests in liver disease

Laboratories can conduct various tests that assist physicians in evaluating disorders of the liver, gallbladder and biliary system. Among the most important group of blood tests known as liver function tests. Depending on the problem of patients who are suspected, the doctor may request an image search, such as ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The doctor may take a sample of liver tissue under a microscope for the search, the procedure is called a liver biopsy. 

Laboratory tests of liver function

Liver function tests are done on blood samples. Most of the tests determines the level of enzymes or other substances in the blood, and thus to diagnose liver problems. One of the tests determined the blood clotting time.

TEST The test may indicate what

Alkaline phosphatase enzyme that is produced in the liver, bone, and placenta. Released when

damage or activity, such as bone growth and pregnancy.

Obstacle in water gall, liver damage and some types of cancer.

ALT enzyme that is produced in the liver and released into the blood when the liver

damaged cells.

Damage to liver cells (as in hepatitis).

AST enzyme that is released into the blood when the damaged liver, heart, muscles or

brain.

Damage to the liver, heart, muscle or brain.

Bilirubin integral component of bile that is produced in the liver.

Obstacle to the flow of bile, liver damage, a breakdown of red blood cells (one of which is made of bilirubin).

GGT enzyme produced by the liver, pancreas and kidneys, and is present in the blood when

these organs were damaged.

Organ damage, drug toxicity, alcohol abuse, pancreatic disease.

LDH enzyme found in blood when certain organs are damaged.

Damage to the liver, lungs or brain and excessive breakdown of red blood cells.

5-nucleotidase enzyme containing only the liver and occurs in the blood when its damage. Obstacle in water or damaged gall bile flow.

Albumin protein generated by the normal liver and released into the blood. One of

Albumin is a task that keeps fluid inside the blood vessels. Liver damage

Alpha-fetoprotein protein generated by the fetal liver and testes.

Severe hepatitis, liver cancer or testicular

Mitochondrial antibodies against mitochondrial antibodies in the blood circulation, the internal component

station

Primary biliary cirrhosis and some autoimmune diseases (such as chronic active hepatitis)

PV or PT time required for blood clotting (coagulation needed for

vitamin K and substances that the liver produces)

Liver damage or poor absorption of vitamin K deficiency caused by gallstones.

Respiratory tests

Respiratory tests measure the ability of the liver to process (metabolize) various drugs. The drug, labeled with radioactive compound, can be given by mouth or vein. The amount of radioactivity in the breath of a person is a measure of the amount of drugs processed by the liver.

UZ

Ultrasound use sound waves to create a picture of the liver, gallbladder and biliary system. The test is better for the detection of structural abnormalities such as tumors, but widespread (diffuse) abnormalities, such as cirrhosis.Cheapest, safest and most sensitive technique for imaging the gallbladder and biliary system.

Use With a doctor can easily detect gallstones in the gall bladder. Ultrasound easily distinguished jaundice caused by a water barrier in the gall of jaundice caused by poor function of liver cells. Type of ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound of vessels, can be used to show blood flow in blood vessels of the liver. The doctor may also use TO as a guide when penetrating needle to obtain tissue samples for biopsy.

Radionuclide (radioisotopic) show

Use of substances containing the radioactive compound is injected into the body, it takes a certain organ.Radioactivity is measured by gamma-camera attached to a computer that creates the image.

Scintigraphy of the liver

This is the kind of display that uses a radionuclide radioactive compound that is absorbed by the liver cells.

Holescintigrafija

This radionuclide is another type of display, uses a radioactive compound that is excreted from the liver into the biliary system, is used to detect acute inflammation of the gallbladder (cholecystitis).

CT (computed tomography)

CT can provide excellent images of the liver and is particularly useful for detecting tumors. It can detect widespread (diffuse) disorders, such as fatty liver and abnormal liver tissue density due to excessive accumulation of iron (hemochromatosis). However, since the CT radiological examinations (X-ray radiation is dangerous) that it is also expensive, not so much used as an ultrasound.

MRI (magnetic resonance)

MRI provides excellent images, similar to those obtained by CT. However, there are drawbacks: more expensive than CT, takes longer than other imaging methods and requires lying in a narrow chamber, which in some people causes claustrophobia.

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography

This is a search for which an endoscope (a flexible viewing tube) is placed in the mouth through the stomach and duodenum (duodenum) and the biliary system. Radiocontrast material is then injected into the bile ducts of the system and make radiographs. In 3% - 5% of the test causes inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis).

Percutaneous cholangiography transhepatična

This method involves the penetration of a long needle through the skin into the liver, followed by injection of radiocontrast agents in one of the liver bile ducts. To specify the doctor may use a needle UZ. Radiographs clearly show biliary system, especially the blockage in the liver.

Operations cholangiography

This method uses a radio-contrast material is visible on the Elo-in. The substance is injected directly into the bile ducts of the system during operation. Rtg then show a clear picture of the bile system.

Plain X-ray

This method can often demonstrate calcified gallstones.

A liver biopsy

A sample of the liver can be obtained during surgery in order to search, but more often gets the penetration of the needle through the skin into the liver. Before the procedure, the patient receives local anesthesia. Accommodation irregular areas where the sample is taken can be ordered with or with-CT. In most medical centers, liver biopsy is performed as an outpatient procedure.

After sampling a person remains in hospital for 3-4 hours, as there is a small risk of complications. The liver can be zaderana and can cause bleeding in the stomach. Bile may leak into the abdomen and lead to inflammation of the abdominal lining (peritonitis). Because bleeding may begin after 15 days, a person needs at that time remain within the hospital up to one hour. In about 2% of people making serious complications and problems of a process is killed 1:10.000. After a liver biopsy is a common mild pain in the upper right abdomen that spreads to the right armpit, and usually relieve analgesics.

In transvenske liver biopsy in the neck vein catheter to put the slips into the heart and placed into one of the hepatic veins coming from the liver. A needle catheter is placed through the vein wall to the liver. This technique is less likely to damage the liver than percutaneous liver biopsy and can be applied even in people who bleed easily.

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.