What causes liver failure

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summary

Liver failure is a more common situation, it seems not a serious disease, but not timely treatment is likely to lead to other more serious situation. When the human liver appears serious damage, it may lead to liver failure, acute liver failure is caused by serious liver damage. Once the human liver failure occurs, the various functions of the liver will immediately appear obstacles. For example, the detoxification function of the liver and the synthesis and excretion function of the liver will be greatly affected. And when acute liver failure occurs, the body's coagulation mechanism will appear obstacles, at this time the body will appear acute jaundice, and may lead to hepatic encephalopathy and ascites and other phenomena.

What causes liver failure

First, the main cause of acute liver failure in our country may be hepatitis virus, especially hepatitis B, which is the most common cause in our country. Second, it may also be some drug-induced hepatitis. Another person who drinks heavily for a long time may also have acute liver failure.

Second: in fact, acute liver failure is sometimes called fulminant liver failure, which can be caused by hepatitis A, hepatitis B and other hepatitis. Some other drugs, such as paracetamol or Antongding, can only cause acute liver failure. In addition, acute liver failure can also be caused by mushroom poisoning or stinky rice noodles poisoning.

Third: if a person has severe hypoxic liver damage, he is likely to have acute liver failure. At this time, not only the liver will fail, but also the heart and kidney may fail. Some patients with acute liver failure may have Wilson's disease.

matters needing attention

The early stage of acute liver failure can make people feel extremely weak, and there will be obvious symptoms of anorexia, followed by severe vomiting and diarrhea. Therefore, when acute liver failure occurs, especially on the premise of knowing that they have liver disease, we must be vigilant and go to the hospital for treatment in time.