How to use drugs to not hurt the liver
Many people around, a little unwell, cold, cough or something, usually go to the pharmacy to buy some medicine, but some people, their own indiscriminate eating tonic, diet pills, but it is easy to unknowingly their own liver is bad. The right approach is to always see a doctor and follow medical advice to take medication, do not listen to hearsay, take drugs or eat herbal remedies. For example, female hormones, although menopausal women take them to improve the risk of avoiding malignant tumors such as breast cancer, but also hepatotoxicity, but if you do not take them, you have to endure the pain and inconvenience of menopausal syndrome such as palpitations, hot flashes, difficulty sleeping; therefore, to eat or not to eat drugs, the person concerned needs to think carefully and refer to the doctor’s professional advice.
Relevant information shows that
There are more than 200 kinds of drugs in 11 categories that can cause damage to the liver to varying degrees. If the body is not short of a certain nutrition and nourishes it indiscriminately, it will certainly increase the burden on the liver, especially those non-natural synthetic nutrients, which can harm the liver if taken indiscriminately instead.
Do not take drugs that are not necessary, especially if you have a bad liver, you should avoid or reduce taking drugs. Whenever you feel strange after taking medication, often with fever, chills, urticaria-like or measles-like rash, itching, joint pain or swollen lymph nodes, you should get a blood test as soon as possible, because once the drug-induced hepatotoxicity usually appears clinical symptoms, see if the GOT and GPT indices are elevated. If you are taking anti-mycotic drugs and other drugs that can easily damage your liver, and if your liver is not functioning well, you should have regular blood tests to follow up.
Chinese herbal medicines are prone to acute drug-related liver injury
According to the survey, at present, 94, 8% of acute drug-related liver injury in China for drug etiology. The clinical signs of patients with drug-related liver injury are complex. 1142 cases of acute drug-related liver injury patients, jaundice accounted for 51%, clinical allergic symptoms accounted for 25%, a history of liver disease accounted for 17, 9%, a history of drug adverse effects accounted for 6%; biochemical typing found, hepatocellular type 885 cases, cholestasis type 198 cases, mixed type 59 cases.
A wide range of drugs that induce drug-related liver injury was investigated, showing that 245 cases (21,5%) were caused by anti-tuberculosis drugs, 242 cases (21,2%) by Chinese patent medicines or herbal medicines, 99 cases (8,7%) by antibiotics, 98 cases (8,67%) by antithyroid drugs, 82 cases (7,16%) by antitumor drugs, 76 cases (6,7%) by immunomodulatory drugs, and 59 cases by other drugs. (6,7%), and other drugs caused 300 cases (26,2%). The researchers concluded that anti-tuberculosis drugs and proprietary Chinese medicines or herbal medicines may be the main causative agents of acute drug-related liver injury in China. Drugs can cause liver cell damage can also lead to a variety of manifestations, which can result in acute liver failure, acute hepatitis, chronic hepatitis, biochemical abnormalities, cholestatic hepatitis, fatty liver, lipid peroxidation, sarcoidosis, and vascular damage.
Daily use of drugs need to be careful
After the occurrence of drug-related liver injury, whether the drug should be stopped or not, as each person’s condition is different, should be judged by the doctor according to the profession. Generally speaking, under the control of a doctor, liver failure and other adverse consequences will not occur. Generally, most patients can recover by stopping the suspected drug in time, and only very few drug-related liver diseases occur with severe hepatitis or evolve into cirrhosis. However, if the patient is taking herbal medicines, it is difficult to confirm exactly which drug or drugs caused liver damage, and sometimes even the patient himself does not know which kinds of herbal medicines are contained in the prescription, so it is impossible to determine the drug that caused liver damage.
There are several types of liver-protective drugs sold on the market today, one of which is amino acids or other nutritional ingredients, the other is naturally extracted, and the others are chemically synthesized. These drugs may not be harmful to the human body. But drugs from unknown sources should be especially careful, may cause liver toxicity, and even violent explosive hepatitis.
To avoid drug injury ten rules
1, do not take random drugs.
2, do not take unknown herbal remedies, Chinese medicine and health food.
3, do not casually increase the dose of drugs.
4, do not mix Chinese and Western medicines taken together.
5.Do not take medicine together with alcohol, milk, tea or coffee.
6.Don’t give half or reduced doses of adult medication to children.
7, do not use expired drugs.
8, do not be greedy for cheap to buy unknown Western medicine.
9, take the medicine after the body does not feel well to quickly seek medical attention.
10, the liver is not good to take drugs to be careful.