What does liver disease abdominal distension cause

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My uncle has been suffering from mild abdominal distension for a year, but his diet is not good recently. Why can liver disease patient appear abdominal distension? Now I would like to share my experience after consulting materials.

What does liver disease abdominal distension cause

First, one of the reasons is: insufficient secretion of digestive juice, disturbance of intestinal peristalsis, weakened digestion and absorption function of gastrointestinal tract, excessive fermentation and corruption of food in the digestive tract caused by the proliferation of bacteria, excessive gas production and accumulation in the intestinal cavity, abnormal liver function, poor portal vein blood supply, resulting in the weakening of intestinal smooth muscle tension, etc. Intestinal motility disorder, mesentery and intestinal wall edema, can not normal peristalsis, gas is difficult to discharge from the anus. Therefore, abdominal distension may occur in patients with liver disease.

Second, the second reason is: under normal circumstances, there is a certain amount of gas in the intestine, but it can be absorbed by the blood vessels of the intestinal mucosa, and the gas can be exhaled from the lungs after entering the blood. In this way, the human body needs to exhaust 20 times more gas through the anus. The adult small intestine can absorb 2500 ml of carbon dioxide and 1300 ml of other gases per hour. If the intestinal mucosa is congested, the function of absorbing gases will be significantly reduced, and a large amount of gases will accumulate in the intestine. As a result, abdominal distension in patients with liver disease will become more and more serious.

Third, the third reason is: abdominal distension is mainly caused by liver damage. The virus is constantly replicating in the body. In order to attack the virus, the body's immune system will cause liver damage and abnormal liver function, so that patients with liver disease will have abdominal distension symptoms.

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For patients with liver, abdominal distension is often a sign of deterioration of liver disease, severe abdominal distension such as drum, the more severe liver disease, the more severe gastrointestinal dysfunction, therefore, the liver develops to chronic severe hepatitis stage, often appear intractable abdominal distension. At this time can not delay, should actively accept the doctor according to your specific situation to give symptomatic treatment.