Early stage cirrhosis has no specific clinical symptoms and signs, no obvious abnormalities in liver function tests, and is in subclinical stage. However, some patients may have the following manifestations.
1. Systemic symptoms: mainly weakness, easy fatigue and loss of physical strength. A few patients may have facial pigmentation.
2. Chronic gastrointestinal symptoms: The main symptoms are loss of appetite, abdominal distension, constipation or diarrhea, and vague pain in the liver area, especially after exertion.
3.Signs: spider hemorrhoids are seen in a few patients, mild or moderate enlargement of the liver, mostly in patients with alcoholic hepatic sclerosis, usually without pressure pain, and normal or mildly enlarged spleen.
Please be alert if you have.
1. You should be highly alert and on guard at all times during the hepatitis epidemic season or area and when there are patients with acute hepatitis at home.
2. A small number of people have flu-like symptoms before the onset of the disease.
3.Sudden onset of fatigue, mental lethargy, and weakness of the knees without any obvious cause.
4.Sudden onset of gastrointestinal symptoms such as loss of appetite, aversion to oil, nausea, vomiting and abdominal distension.
5.Hidden pain, rising pain, stabbing pain or burning sensation in the right rib cage.
6.Yellowing or strong tea color of sclera, skin and urine.
7.Spots on the iris of both eyes are obvious.
8.The palm of the hand is golden yellow, or the entire palm surface has dark red or purple spots.
9.The palms of the hands, especially the large and small fissure parts and the skin of the palm surface of the fingers are congested and red.
10.Significant pressure pain on the palmar surface of the second finger joint of the ring finger of both hands.
11.In the corresponding liver point area of the two auricles, there is a nodular elevation, and when lightly pressing this point, the pain is more obvious than other parts.
12.Dark and lusterless face.
13.Spider nevus can be seen on the skin surface of the whole body.
14.The right jugular vein is angered.
15.The abdomen is bulging, and the upper abdominal wall vein is obviously exposed.
16.Oedema of the lower limbs is obvious, or even the whole body is edematous, and urine is scarce.
17.A history of long-term alcoholism or long-term use of drugs harmful to the liver such as tetracycline, chlorpromazine, sulfonamides and other drugs should be alert to alcoholic hepatitis or drug-related hepatitis.
18.Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma can palpate the uneven surface of liver with nodular sensation and obvious pressure pain.
19.Serious patients have an odor similar to rotten apple in their mouth.