What reason is liver cirrhosis foot swollen?
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Cirrhosis will not only bring liver damage to patients, but also bring a variety of discomfort symptoms to patients. Clinically, many patients have swollen legs. Their daily diet should be rich in nutrition and easy to digest. They should eat more high protein food appropriately, and they should often eat fruits to supplement vitamins. It should be noted that those with liver coma in the late stage of liver cirrhosis should limit the intake of high protein food. What is the cause of liver cirrhosis with swollen feet? Let's talk about it.
What reason is liver cirrhosis foot swollen?
After edema, patients often suspect that there may be kidney problems. In fact, in addition to kidney disease, there are many causes of edema, including cirrhosis, heart failure and taking some drugs. In addition, physical edema is also very common, prone to women.
Patients with low back pain or chronic arthritis often have edema after taking drugs or injections. For this case of edema, as long as stop taking medicine, give appropriate support therapy can gradually alleviate.
Edema caused by kidney disease is usually accompanied by urination and foam. It is necessary to treat the primary disease to remove edema. It is suggested that patients should go to the regular hospital for examination as soon as possible, and do the screening of heart, liver, kidney and adrenal gland according to the doctor's advice, so as to clarify the etiology and treat as soon as possible.
matters needing attention
1. Pay attention to more rest and avoid strenuous exercise; 2. Keep optimistic attitude, leg swelling and ascites are relatively easy to cure, and establish the confidence to overcome the disease; 3. The daily diet should be rich in nutrition and easy to digest, eat more high protein food appropriately, and often eat fruits to supplement vitamins. It should be noted that the intake of high protein food should be limited in patients with liver coma in the late stage of liver cirrhosis, so as not to aggravate the disease; 4. Limit the intake of salt and water when there is ascites, and adjust the intake of salt according to the situation. If you have no experience, you should consult a hepatologist; 5. Patients with advanced liver cirrhosis often have varicose veins of upper digestive tract. It is necessary to avoid hard and spiny food, so as not to damage varicose veins and cause bleeding;