The liver can be called the largest organ of the entire human body. It is entrusted with a large number of functional tasks, without which the body cannot live. The liver removes toxins, secretes a special secretion and bile, synthesizes many biologically active substances and clearly keeps the energy balance of the entire human body.
It is also important that it is in the liver that red blood cells are born and accumulate, and the blood is filtered. It is the liver that makes of everything that we eat, that we inhale, substances that are important for humans and vital for he alth. The human immune system is constantly under the control of the liver, it takes part in all metabolic processes of the body. So it turns out that the liver is a very important organ, and it is simply necessary to know about its possible problems and diseases. After all, even a small malfunction in the liver can lead to incredible consequences for human he alth.
Liver diseases, photos and medical names
- Primary cancer.
- Liver failure.
- Hymochromatosis.
- Cirrhosis.
- Hepatolenticular dystrophy.
- Various types of hepatitis.
- Hepatosis.- Hepatolienal syndrome.
Liver disease, causes of occurrence
- Drinking alcohol in large quantities.
- Hepatitis and other viral diseases.
- Weak human immune system.
- Metabolic disorders in the body. - Some hereditary diseases.
-Toxic substances, some drugs.
- Inflammation of the pancreas and gallbladder, other diseases, syndromes.
The liver can be harmed by other factors, you can’t list them all, but we can say with confidence that the most common of them is malnutrition. People like to overeat or, on the contrary, eat very rarely, do not include vitamins and other useful substances in the diet.
Alcoholism
This is another common cause, especially in our country, of serious liver disease. There are problems with prolonged, from 10 - 12 years, the use of alcoholic beverages. The disease manifests itself in fatty degeneration, cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis. The early degree of the disease is fatty degeneration, which disappears on its own after giving up alcohol after 2-4 weeks.
Alcoholic hepatitis causes weakness, nausea and vomiting, weight loss, jaundice, pain in the right hypochondrium. The organ is dense and enlarged insize. The final stage is a liver disease called cirrhosis, when there is a pronounced dysfunction, with it there is a high probability of developing cancer. This liver disease is treated with a complete rejection of alcohol, the use of essential phospholipids and corticosteroids, and the late stage of the disease involves organ transplantation.
The average daily dose of pure ethanol, which provokes liver disease, for men is 40-80 g, for women - more than 20 g. One ml of alcohol contains approximately 0.79 g of ethanol. Therefore, the rejection of the alcohol habit, proper nutrition and strict adherence to the doctor's prescriptions become both the prevention of the disease and the way to recover from addiction.
