What is toxic liver damage, factors and causes of its formation
The liver is the main purification system of the human body. Every day almost 2 thousand liters of blood pass through it, which is filtered from toxins approximately 300 - 400 times. Unfortunately, against some toxic substances the liver is powerless and after destruction by them it collapses, losing its functions. And without the proper medical process, pathology covers not only the liver, but the entire body. Such toxic liver damage is otherwise referred to as hepatosis, toxic hepatitis, and the like.
Under the influence of negative factors, violations in the work of the liver of varying severity and, as a result, violations of the proper functioning of the liver develop.
The causes of toxins on the liver
The most dangerous toxins for baking are hepatotropic toxic substances such as benzene, chlorinated hydrocarbons, aldehydes, amines, alcohols, white phosphorus, as well as hemolytic poisonous substances - acetic essence, copper sulfate, glycols - oxalic acid,salts of heavy metals. The listed substances damage not only the liver, but also the kidneys with the simultaneous formation of the deficiency of these organs.
Causes of toxic effects on the liver can also be: alcoholic beverages, psychotropic substances, antibiotic drugs.
What are the symptoms of liver toxicity?
Mail all toxic lesions of this organ are asymptomatic or they can be difficult to distinguish from other liver pathologies.
External symptoms of toxic liver damage are almost always absent, but at the same time violations are established in the conduct of instrumental and laboratory diagnostics.
It is important to understand that the same damaging substances can be the cause of various variants and forms of toxic damage to the liver.
Symptomatic disease combines several syndromes at once - that is, stable sets of symptoms that are realized together or separately.
It is not less important to understand the fact that the severity of the course and the frequency of manifestation depends on the type of liver damage, for example, with cirrhosis, when dying of liver tissue begins and the formation of nodes from scar tissue, the damage is more intense and causes more serious consequences.
- Cytolysis syndrome - manifested by increased permeability of liver cells surface from mild lesions to complete destruction of the membrane and even of the cells themselves.
- Cholestatic syndrome - manifested by a decrease in the penetration of bile into the duodenum - into the first section of the small intestine. This syndrome is much less common than the first, and its signs are:
- Jaundice - dyeing of the skin, mucous surface, biological fluids - saliva, tear fluid - in a yellow tint.
- Lightening of the shade of feces.
- Darkening of the color of urine.
- Increased liver size.
- Itching of the skin.
- Dyspeptic syndrome - a violation of the digestive system, manifested by a worsening of appetite, nausea with vomiting, bloating, pain in the area next to the navel.
- Increase in size and moderate increase in liver density.
- Pain in the subcostal area on the right side.
- Hepatergy or otherwise liver encephalopathy is a syndrome that manifests itself as a result of severe renal failure. It is characterized by neuropsychic disorders such as drowsiness, irritability, lack of interest in loved ones, etc., bad breath, possible onset of the hepatic coma, that is, a deeper loss of consciousness with a simultaneous lack of response to external stimuli such as sound, light and others.
How effective treatment is carried out after the defeat of
Treatment of toxic liver damage initially involves taking against intoxication therapy, which is administered on an individual basis in accordance with the severity of the poisoning. Already with the first suspicions of the development of pathology, it will be necessary to exclude the influence on the body of toxins of medicines, alcohol or plant poisons.
As with the development of other liver pathologies, toxic liver poisoning requires a strict diet - the exclusion from the diet of margarine, fat, soups in rich broth, fatty meat, sausage, cream, canned goods, sour cream, hot cheese, hard-boiled eggs,legumes, sorrel, garlic, radish and radish, salted, fermented products, chocolate, baked pastry and ice cream.
In addition, special treatment of poisoning with the appointment of hepatoprotectors and antioxidants, such as vitamin E and others, is organized. With toxic damage by alcoholic beverages, pathogenetic and additional etiogenetic therapies can be carried out.
Toxic liver diseases are a common problem. Despite the complex names of toxins, for poisoning it is not necessary to work in harmful production. Currently, the most dangerous factors of damage are food products, which contain unknown components, as well as medications with a dubious reputation with a large list of side effects.
In this regard, for the purpose of prevention, it is important to be very cautious and, as far as possible, take only natural medicines and well-proven drugs after the expert's recommendations and carefully study the instructions for use. Cheap, but unknown drugs can be questionable and only cause irreparable harm to human health, the correction of which will take much more time and effort.
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