Fatty liver hepatosis: risk factors and consequences

If to expose the liver to a long toxic or fat load, then by the age of 40 years fatty liver hepatosis forms. However, today the disease has become "younger".

It affects more and more relatively young people. Since this disease is dangerous for its serious consequences, it is necessary to recognize it in time to start immediate treatment.

Onset of

Disease When functional liver cells begin to degenerate into adipose tissue, a chronic disease develops - fatty degeneration or fatty liver hepatosis. The beginning of this process is painless. Because of the absence of symptoms, doctors usually do not sound an alarm and prescribe phosphoglyph, Essential forte or something like that.

However, the destructive process continues to develop and soon becomes avalanche-like. Trouble begins with other systems and organs that depend on the liver.

This further worsens her work: her body supplies her with blood, the liver is filled with toxins from the intestine. The main symptoms of fatty hepatosis are:

• nausea;
• heaviness in the pit of stomach( in epigastrium) and right hypochondrium;
• aching blunt pain in the same areas;
• flatulence;
• weakness and malaise.

Risk Factors

In everyday life, people do not think about the established habits that turn into risk factors for the disease. Common causes of fatty hepatosis are as follows:

• Foods dry, food from McDonald's with E-supplements overloads the liver with the pancreas.
• If you eat plenty of fresh baked goods containing refined carbohydrates, it breaks the metabolism and, as a result, leads to obesity and diabetes.
• With minimal alcohol consumption, a healthy liver converts it to acetate( a fairly safe substance).But this is the presence of pure alcohol in the drink. Modern alcohol, as a rule, contains poisonous substances.
• Because of the use of synthetic drugs, toxic hepatosis of the liver occurs. Hormonal preparations and tetracycline antibiotics are especially dangerous.
• It's strange, but fatty liver hepatosis can arise from a strict vegetarian diet because of a violation of carbohydrate metabolism as an organism's response to insufficient protein content in the diet.
• With a fixed lifestyle, fluid stagnation occurs in the stomach, veins, gall bladder, which provokes fatty liver hepatosis.

Consequences of fatty hepatosis

Since many organs are associated with liver function, almost everything is destroyed. What is dangerous fatty hepatosis? Here is a short list of consequences:

• Due to incomplete digestion of nutrients, the work of other systems is upset. The resulting stagnation in the gallbladder leads to cholecystitis and the appearance of stones. This overloads the pancreas, provoking pancreatitis. As a consequence, incomplete digestion of food occurs, which overloads the intestines, leading to dysbiosis.
• Deficiency of certain substances( bioflavonoids, quercitin, lecithin, vitamin C) worsens the condition of the heart and blood vessels, provokes an increase in blood pressure and the development of varicose veins. There is a deterioration in visual acuity and skin condition.
• Extra fat is not just superfluous deposits, it is an additional hormonal gland. It, together with a violation of the metabolism of hormones in the liver, provokes in women the formation of tumors in the genital area.
• There is a decrease in immunity, which means, frequent colds, fungal diseases.

How to start treatment

Overweight should be disposed of with daily physical activity. A very important role belongs to the food ration. Nutrition for fatty liver hepatosis assumes a low fat content. In many cases, the correction of diet already leads to the normal process of bile secretion, thereby stopping the development of the disease.

The diet for fatty liver hepatosis prescribes a categorical ban on the consumption of alcohol, fried and fatty dishes, salt restriction. On the day the patient should receive with food not more than 70 g of fat. But without restrictions you can eat foods with carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, pectin. An unlimited amount of liquid is recommended.

In the menu for fatty hepatosis should include boiled, baked or steamed dishes, for example, fish and meat. Meat and concentrated vegetable broths, fatty meat, fish, fresh garlic and onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, radish, beans and, of course, canned, smoked, salted foods are excluded.

Limit fatty sour cream, coffee, carbonated drinks, cocoa. Useful any vegetables in the processed form, especially carrots and cabbage. Also, the ration can include mild cheese, ham, boiled eggs, cereals, dairy products, especially kefir, yogurt, low-fat cottage cheese.

Drug Therapy

If the above measures are not enough, what is the best way to treat fatty hepatosis? According to the doctor's prescription, drugs that affect fat metabolism in the liver are used. To improve the functional state of the liver, the leading place belongs to the complex drug heptral, which promotes cell renewal, stimulating the formation of protein in the liver.

Another leading drug for the treatment of fatty liver hepatosis is Ursofalk( ursosan).It improves biochemical parameters and properties of bile. Many modern drugs for fatty hepatosis improve insulin sensitivity, activate certain liver enzymes, improving the absorption of glucose by tissues( eg, glitazones).

Each patient should remember that drug therapy is carried out under the strict supervision of a physician with an individual approach to each case.
Many believe that fatty hepatosis does not progress. But this is not so.

Approximately half of patients suffer from progressive fibrosis, and at least a sixth of patients with cirrhosis. Moreover, fatty hepatosis of alcoholic nature turns twice as often with cirrhosis of the liver than non-alcoholic hepatosis.