Nowadays, people are more and more concerned about their health and go for regular medical checkups. After the checkup, they will ask to the clinic with the medical report: “Doctor, do you see what is wrong with my high transaminases? Today I will talk about the causes of elevated aminotransferases?
In general, high transaminases indicate inflammation of the liver and possible liver damage, but high transaminases are not always associated with hepatitis. However, high aminotransferases do not always indicate hepatitis. The five tests for hepatitis B and hepatitis C antibodies are the basis for diagnosing hepatitis. So, many patients often ask, “Why do I have abnormal transaminases when I have no history of hepatitis? This is because, in addition to hepatitis, other diseases and non-pathological factors can also cause an increase in transaminases.
I have summarized below the pathological causes of elevated transaminases.
1. hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer.
2. fatty liver.
3, alcoholic hepatitis due to long-term alcohol consumption.
4, drug-related liver injury.
5, cholecystitis, gallstones.
6, heart, brain and kidney diseases can also cause an increase in transaminases.
7, autoimmune hepatitis.
8, during pregnancy, as the month increases the burden on the liver of pregnant women will also increase, thus leading to high transaminases.
9, infectious diseases: cold, pneumonia, etc.
All of the above are pathological causes of elevated aminotransferases, so what are the non-pathological causes? Will the transaminase level of healthy people also increase?
The aminotransferase levels of healthy people may also temporarily exceed the normal range.
1, strenuous exercise, exertion, staying up late.
2.Eating fried things at breakfast before the physical examination, or eating more greasy food recently the examination result may be out of the normal range.
3.If he has been drinking alcohol for a long time, but has now refrained from drinking, his transaminases may also be elevated.
What should patients with abnormal aminotransferases pay attention to in their diet?
Patients with elevated aminotransferases should consume more.
1. fresh vegetables and fruits.
2. fungal foods: such as shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, black fungus, monkey head mushrooms, straw mushrooms, etc.
3, high protein foods: such as fish, soy products, milk.
Because these foods are rich in vitamins or proteins, easy to digest and absorb, improve the body’s immunity, and promote the repair and regeneration of liver cells.
Patients with high transaminases cannot eat food.
1, can not eat spicy and stimulating food.
2, also mentioned earlier that eating fried food will make transaminases rise, so you can not eat fried, high-fat, high-sugar, high-cholesterol food.
3, although patients with high aminotransferase should eat some high-protein food, but can not eat too much high-protein food, because the right amount of high protein is conducive to the repair of the liver and enhance the reserve capacity of the liver, but for patients with high aminotransferase liver function is damaged to a certain extent, consume too much high-protein food, when the liver is not capable of generating blood ammonia in time to change into urea, the body will cause hepatotoxicity or even induce liver coma.
There are many causes of elevated transaminases, so it is important to identify the cause and to confirm the diagnosis of hepatitis through various hospital tests.