What symptom is fatty liver?

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Fatty liver refers to the excessive accumulation of fat in liver cells caused by various reasons. It is a common pathological change of liver, rather than an independent disease. Fatty liver disease is seriously threatening the health of Chinese people. It is the second largest liver disease after viral hepatitis. The incidence rate is rising. What is the symptom of fatty liver? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

What symptom is fatty liver?

Fatty liver is generally divided into alcoholic fatty liver and non-alcoholic fatty liver. According to the extent of liver involvement, steatosis can be divided into three types: mild, moderate and severe. Generally, when the fat content exceeds 5% - 10% of the liver weight, it is considered as mild fatty liver, more than 10% - 25% is moderate fatty liver, and more than 25% is severe fatty liver.

The clinical manifestations of fatty liver are various, mild fatty liver is mostly asymptomatic, and more patients are found accidentally in physical examination. Fatigue is the most common symptom in patients with fatty liver, but it has no correlation with the severity of histological injury. Moderate and severe fatty liver has similar symptoms to chronic hepatitis, including loss of appetite, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, liver area or right upper abdominal pain, etc.

When there is too much fat deposition in the liver, it can make the liver capsule expand and the liver ligament stretch, and cause severe pain or tenderness in the right upper abdomen, fever, and increase of white blood cell count. It is misdiagnosed as acute abdomen and laparotomy is performed. In addition, fatty liver patients often have glossitis, angular stomatitis, skin ecchymosis, limb numbness, limb paresthesia and other peripheral neuritis changes. A few patients can also have gastrointestinal bleeding, gingival bleeding, epistaxis and so on.

matters needing attention

The three meals a day should be reasonably allocated to achieve the balance of nutrition, and sufficient protein can remove the fat in the liver. Abstinence, smoking cessation, eat less too greasy food, control fat intake, especially to avoid animal fat intake.