Don't drink anymore, watch out for alcoholic liver!
In this way, I think many people have heard it at the wine table, and everyone always can't help but persuade them to say a few words in the face of alcoholics.
However, alcoholics do not think so, in their view, alcoholic liver will only find long-term, a large number of alcoholics, or find people with a family history of liver disease, they are not drunk, and they do not drink every day, of course, there will be no alcoholic liver!
But in fact, alcoholic liver does not specifically refer to a liver disease, it refers to a series of liver damage caused by alcoholism.
Even if the amount of alcohol consumed is not much each time, as long as the alcohol is drunk for a long time, alcoholic liver disease may occur, such as fatty liver disease is a common one. If you drink heavily for a long time, you may also have hepatitis, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and even cancer in the future.
If you have always felt that the body has the following five abnormalities in the near future, beware of the sign that alcoholic liver has arrived:
1, fatigue and exhaustion: affected by the inhibition of alcohol, after drinking everyone will always feel physical fatigue and fatigue, the mind is not clear.
However, this feeling is actually very short-lived and can be completely relieved after proper rest.
On the contrary, if you often feel physical fatigue and fatigue recently, after a long period of rest, there is no relief, but the fatigue is becoming more and more obvious, which is the signal of liver damage.
Due to the decline in liver function, it affects cholinesterase production, vitamin E storage, protein synthesis, resulting in muscle-nerve conduction dysfunction, and the body becomes more and more tired;
2, appetite decline: alcohol is indeed to inhibit people's appetite, but it is also a very short process.
If you have not recently drunk alcohol, you are still not interested in food, especially the dislike of eating greasy, high-calorie foods, and there are symptoms such as bloating, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea after eating, which is often related to the decline in liver function.
Because the liver is a link in the digestive system, it is responsible for secreting bile and synthesizing nutrients. Therefore, impaired liver function will first affect digestion, resulting in patients with symptoms similar to chronic gastrointestinal diseases;
3. Pain in the liver area: If alcoholic liver disease has developed to the stage of hepatitis, the liver at this time will often be hyperemic and swollen, and the tissue fluid will exude under the stimulation of inflammation, and the liver cells will gradually necrotic.
These pathological changes will irritate the envelope covering the surface of the liver, causing the liver envelope to be extremely stretched and stretched.
Under the influence of such symptoms, patients may present with persistent or intermittent dull, swelling, tingling, or traction pain in the epigastric region and right quarter ribs, which is clinically called "pain in the liver area";
4. Yellowing of the skin: this is one of the typical signs of jaundice, if there is an inexplicable yellowing of the skin, abnormal yellowing of the sclera and mucous membranes recently, it often means that the liver cells have been seriously damaged;
It is unable to absorb metabolic bilirubin normally, so that a large amount of bilirubin accumulates in the blood and travels with the blood circulation, eventually causing jaundice.
At the same time as the skin color changes, the patient may also have symptoms such as strong brown urine and clay color of stool;
5. Endocrine disorders: After the liver function is seriously impaired, it will also affect the operation of the hypothalamus, adrenal glands and other endocrine glands, and then develop endocrine abnormalities.
A large amount of melanin begins to accumulate on the patient's face, and a liver disease face appears. At the same time, under the influence of estrogen accumulation stimulation, patients may also have symptoms such as liver palms, spider moles, and telangiectasia at the tip of the nose.
All in all, the manifestations of alcoholic liver disease are varied. However, it is not only the presence of symptoms that is a sign of liver damage.
After all, the compensatory capacity of the liver is extremely strong, and in the early stages of liver disease, patients may not have any abnormalities. Therefore, regardless of whether the body has symptoms, long-term alcoholics should immediately quit drinking and seek regular medical attention for liver disease screening.