Low cholesterol may be caused by physiological factors, such as low cholesterol due to insufficient daily intake, which can be supplemented by a high cholesterol diet; it may also be caused by pathologic factors, such as liver disease, hyperthyroidism, etc., which can be treated by medication, surgery, etc., so as to improve the low cholesterol situation.
1. Insufficient daily intake: Low cholesterol will occur when the daily dietary intake of cholesterol is too low. Cholesterol can be replenished by consuming cholesterol-rich foods such as egg yolks and animal offal.
2. Liver disease: such as viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, etc., the function of liver cells is damaged, causing cholesterol synthesis disorder, resulting in low cholesterol. Antiviral drugs such as lamivudine can be applied under doctor’s guidance to treat viral hepatitis, and serious cirrhosis can be treated by liver transplantation under doctor’s advice, so as to improve the situation of low cholesterol.
3. Hyperthyroidism: thyroid hormone secretion increases in hyperthyroidism patients, and thyroid hormone can obviously promote cholesterol decomposition and metabolism, resulting in low cholesterol. Mild hyperthyroidism patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply methimazole and other drugs to treat hyperthyroidism, severe hyperthyroidism or drug treatment is ineffective patients can be recommended by the doctor to carry out thyroidectomy to treat hyperthyroidism, so as to improve the situation of low cholesterol.
Low cholesterol may also be related to long-term use of lipid-lowering drugs such as atorvastatin, tuberculosis, cancer and other serious wasting diseases, so if the patient’s cholesterol is persistently low, should go to the hospital for examination, to clarify the specific causes of the disease, and standardized treatment under the guidance of a professional doctor, in order to avoid adverse consequences.