Causes, symptoms and treatment of cryptogenic hepatitis

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver caused by bacteria or viruses. The disease can occur as a result of intoxication with alcohol, medicines, and also occur as a result of autoimmune diseases. This disease is mostly amenable to successful treatment if early diagnosis and proper treatment have been made.

But sometimes the course of this disease takes a protracted character( more than 6 months), during which it is impossible to establish the cause and choose the appropriate therapy. In this case, hepatitis is called cryptogenic.

Causes of cryptogenic hepatitis

Cryptogenic hepatitis occurs according to statistics in 10-25% of all chronic inflammatory diseases of the liver. If it lasts more than 6 months and is difficult to treat, then this disease is called chronic cryptogenic hepatitis.

Chronic cryptogenic sooner or later can lead to destructive processes in the liver, and tends to progress, and the transition to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

In order to establish the cause, it is necessary to conduct analyzes for all causes of the disease, and also to establish the degree of its severity and the activity of the process. For the beginning, all viruses that could cause cryptogenic hepatitis( from virus A to F) are excluded. It is also necessary to make tests for Epstein, TSMV, herpes virus.

It is also necessary to exclude as a cause of the disease all the exogenous factors - taking medications, drinking alcohol, and also examining the patient for autoimmune diseases.

The degree of severity is determined by the amount of ALT in the blood( from 3 norms to 10 norms and above).The degree of activity of cryptogenic hepatitis in these cases can be minimal, weakly and moderately expressed, expressed.

Symptoms and signs of the disease

Cryptogenic hepatitis is characterized by the following symptoms:

• Chronic fatigue syndrome.
• Irritability, nervousness, sleep disturbance.
• Decreased appetite.
• Nausea, sometimes vomiting, bitterness in the mouth.
• Severity or pain in the right upper quadrant.
• Bloating and occasional upset of the stool.
• Enlarged liver and spleen.
• Bloating.
• It is rare to have skin itch and discoloration of the skin and sclera.

In case of a disease, the cryptogenic chronic hepatitis during the prognosis will depend on how often the therapy is conducted, the diet and regimen are observed, which involves the exclusion of physical exertion, irradiation, toxic effects of harmful environmental factors. If all these factors are observed, the prognosis of the disease is favorable.

Treatment of

disease In case of a disease, cryptogenic hepatitis treatment includes the following measures:

Compliance with the regime and nature of nutrition. In general, table No. 5 is recommended, which contains boiled products( or steamed), as well as fruits and vegetables, taking into account the usefulness of food. It is not recommended for patients with cryptogenic hepatitis to consume fatty, fried, salted, marinated, spicy food.

The course of medicines includes:

• Detoxication therapy, which includes saline solutions, 5% glucose, hemodez, polydez, polyglukin, rheopolyglucin( 200-400 ml twice a day).
• Preparations for the normalization of the gastrointestinal tract. Probiotics, enterosorbents, enzymes are prescribed.
• Hepatoprotectors, whose task is to protect liver cells from the harmful effects of environmental factors.
• Vitaminotherapy and micronutrient intake.

For successful treatment, it is also necessary to administer concomitant diseases, but when taking medications, consider their hepatotoxic effect.

If a diagnosis of chronic cryptogenic is established, folk treatment should include the intake of medicinal herbs that have anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects( calendula, celandine, St. John's wort).

In folk medicine, there are many drugs that have a good antispasmodic and choleretic effect. These include plants such as artichoke, thistle, sporesch, mint, alfalfa. From medicinal herbs you can make decoctions, infusions, make tea.