What is fatty liver cirrhosis?
Cirrhosis is a chronic progressive liver disease caused by a variety of liver-damaging factors such as hepatitis, alcoholism, obesity, fatty liver, drug intoxication, schistosomiasis and other long-term damage to the liver. Clinically, in the early stage, due to strong liver function compensation, there may be no obvious symptoms; in the later stage, there is liver failure and portal hypertension, and often serious complications such as gastrointestinal bleeding, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, secondary infection and carcinoma leading to death.
Cirrhosis is mainly manifested by loss of appetite, weakness, gingival bleeding, liver palms, spider nevus, jaundice, low albumin, splenomegaly, esophagogastric fundic varices, ascites, etc. The combined rate of liver cancer and cirrhosis is as high as 84.6%. The best treatment option for cirrhosis used to be liver transplantation, but the source of liver, expensive price and post-operative rejection renders this method impractical for the general population.
Previously, most cases of cirrhosis in China were mainly caused by viral hepatitis. Repeated attacks of viral hepatitis caused liver damage, which, combined with longer attacks or duration, made liver fibrosis aggravated during the repair process, which, over time, destroyed the normal structure of the liver, changed the morphology of the liver, and hardened the texture of the liver, aggravating liver fibrosis and leading to cirrhosis.
In recent years, with the rapid development of China’s economy, people drink too much alcohol, as well as overeating and other bad lifestyles, fatty liver patients also emerged in large numbers, while people still mistakenly believe that fatty liver is not harmful, in fact, fatty liver has damaged the normal function of the liver, and there is a bigger shadow is approaching, that is – -Fatty liver cirrhosis!
Clinical studies have shown that chronic fatty liver is closely related to liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. Regardless of the etiology of chronic fatty liver, some patients can eventually develop cirrhosis, especially alcoholic fatty liver.
Long-term heavy alcohol consumption first causes fatty liver; if alcohol consumption is still continued, cirrhosis can be caused by alcoholic hepatitis. The minimum time frame for fatty liver caused by heavy drinking is generally about 5 years, and the minimum time frame for cirrhosis is about 10D15 years; however, alcoholic fatty liver or cirrhosis can occur in some cases with less than the above time frame.
Compared with alcoholic fatty liver, non-alcoholic fatty liver has a lower chance of liver fibrosis and the process is relatively slow. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis must be followed by nonalcoholic steatohepatitis to develop into cirrhosis, i.e., nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is an intermediate stage in the development of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis into cirrhosis.
Previously, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis was thought to be a benign disease with slow progression and little or no cirrhosis or liver failure. However, recent studies have shown that about 1/4 of patients with fatty liver due to severe obesity also have liver fibrosis and 8% have cirrhosis. It has also been found that in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, the lesions can be reversed after weight loss, but if left untreated, some patients eventually develop cirrhosis.
Regardless of the cause of fatty liver, the liver of a patient with fatty liver will be like a storage tank, accumulating too much oil and grease, resulting in the loss of liver metabolic and detoxification functions.
The abnormal liver metabolism function makes more and more fats accumulate, and the fatty liver develops from mild to moderate and severe. The normal physiological state of the body and liver of fatty liver patients has been changed, and it is already difficult to reverse fatty liver with simple diet control and physical exercise.
Fatty liver patients have abnormal fat metabolism, resulting in fatty liver patients with both high triglycerides and elevated transaminases and transthyretin. Fatty liver is a product of dysfunctional fat metabolism in the liver and a pathogenic factor that aggravates liver damage. Long-term hepatocyte degeneration leads to impaired regeneration and necrosis of hepatocytes.
The long-term accumulation of large amounts of fat in liver cells affects their blood supply, oxygen supply and their own metabolism, resulting in massive swelling, inflammatory infiltration and degenerative necrosis of liver cells.
Clinical observation shows that the liver of patients with severe fatty liver is infiltrated by a large amount of fat, resulting in fibroplasia and pseudobullet formation in the liver, liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. Once cirrhosis develops to the decompensated stage, liver coma, liver ascites, gastrointestinal haemorrhage, liver failure, liver and kidney syndrome or secondary liver cancer are very likely to occur, and then it is not far from the end of life.
How to treat liver cirrhosis?
First of all, active prevention and removal of the cause is the most effective measure to prevent liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.
Secondly, we should pay attention to the prevention and treatment of various primary diseases, actively prevent and treat fatty liver, alcoholic liver, chronic hepatitis, various infections, avoid contact and application of substances toxic to the liver, and reduce pathogenic factors.
In the early stage of cirrhosis, maintenance is the main focus to prevent further aggravation of the disease; in the decompensated stage, in addition to liver preservation and restoration of liver function, active prevention and treatment of complications are also required. General treatment principles are as follows.
(1) Reasonable diet and nutrition: It is beneficial to restore liver cell function and stabilize the disease. High quality and high protein, moderate supply of sugar, low-fat diet, high vitamin and trace element-rich food can meet the daily needs of the organism of patients with cirrhosis.
(2) Improving liver function: if there are many abnormal transaminases and bilirubin in liver function, a combination of Chinese and Western medicines can be given according to the treatment principles of hepatitis. Reasonable application of vitamin C, vitamin B, Cordyceps, ginseng, geranium, zedoary and other drugs.
(3) Anti-hepatic fibrosis treatment: apply Astragalus, Salvia, colchicine, hepatocyte growth promoter and other drugs to treat liver fibrosis and early hepatic steatosis.
(4) Active prevention and treatment of complications: there are more complications in the decompensated stage of cirrhosis, which can lead to serious consequences. For complications such as esophagogastric fundic varices, ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, and co-infections, effective methods are chosen according to the specific conditions of the patient.
How to prevent liver cirrhosis?
For hepatitis, fatty liver, alcoholic liver, cirrhosis and other causes of liver cell damage, the protection and repair of liver cells can be done with Clean Nutrition Tablets, which is the first international initiative and successfully developed for people with liver disease.
Clean Nutrition Tablets can provide cirrhotic patients with special amino acids such as cysteine, arginine, glycine, glutamine, etc. and high quality protein, and Clean Nutrition Tablets are rich in B vitamins, vitamin C, vitamin E and trace elements, which can meet the needs of cirrhotic patients for vitamins and trace elements.
Clean Nutrition Tablet adds Cordyceps, Ginseng, Pueraria Mirifica, Licorice, Cassia, Zedoary, Turmeric, Green Tea Polyphenols and other natural ingredients which are effective for liver protection and refined by modern bio-engineering technology. The introduction of clean nutrition tablets without toxicity and side effects brings the best solution for fatty liver treatment and prevention of liver cirrhosis.