Your liver works hard to keep you healthy, but long-term damage can lead to “cirrhosis”
Did you know that Cirrhosis silently scars your liver?.
Learn what causes it, the warning signs, and how to protect your liver before it's too late!
A thread
Did you know that Cirrhosis silently scars your liver?.
Learn what causes it, the warning signs, and how to protect your liver before it's too late!
A thread
WHAT IS LIVER CIRRHOSIS?
It is a serious condition where the liver gets damaged over a long period and forms scar tissue.
This scarring replaces healthy liver cells, making it harder for the liver to do its job.
Your liver plays a vital role in your body, breaking down food, filtering toxins, and helping with digestion.
When it gets scarred, it struggles to perform these functions. 🙂↕️
It is a serious condition where the liver gets damaged over a long period and forms scar tissue.
This scarring replaces healthy liver cells, making it harder for the liver to do its job.
Your liver plays a vital role in your body, breaking down food, filtering toxins, and helping with digestion.
When it gets scarred, it struggles to perform these functions. 🙂↕️
✍🏽 WHAT CAUSES CIRRHOSIS?
- Drinking alcohol heavily over many years is one of the top causes. The liver gets overwhelmed trying to process it, leading to damage.
- Hepatitis B and C cause long-term inflammation in the liver, eventually resulting in cirrhosis.l
- fat builds up in the liver, usually due to obesity, diabetes, or high cholesterol, leading to damage similar to what alcohol causes
- Drinking alcohol heavily over many years is one of the top causes. The liver gets overwhelmed trying to process it, leading to damage.
- Hepatitis B and C cause long-term inflammation in the liver, eventually resulting in cirrhosis.l
- fat builds up in the liver, usually due to obesity, diabetes, or high cholesterol, leading to damage similar to what alcohol causes
✍🏽 SYMPTOMS TO WATCH OUT FOR
- you might not notice anything at first because the liver can still work despite the damage
- feeling exhausted all the time, even if you’re resting enough
- yellow skin and eyes
- fluid starts to build up in your abdomen (ascites) and legs (edema), they become swollen
- you might bruise or bleed easily.
- you might not notice anything at first because the liver can still work despite the damage
- feeling exhausted all the time, even if you’re resting enough
- yellow skin and eyes
- fluid starts to build up in your abdomen (ascites) and legs (edema), they become swollen
- you might bruise or bleed easily.
✍🏽 CIRRHOSIS HAVE TWO STAGES
1. Compensated: where the liver is damaged but can still do its job well enough, and you might not have many symptoms
2. Decompensated: where the liver is severely scarred and can't keep up with its functions
1. Compensated: where the liver is damaged but can still do its job well enough, and you might not have many symptoms
2. Decompensated: where the liver is severely scarred and can't keep up with its functions
✍🏽 IT CAN BECOME COMPLICATED
The liver’s scarring increases pressure in the blood vessels around it, which can cause them to swell and burst
When the liver can no longer perform its functions, it leads to liver failure
People with cirrhosis are at a higher risk of developing liver cancer
The liver’s scarring increases pressure in the blood vessels around it, which can cause them to swell and burst
When the liver can no longer perform its functions, it leads to liver failure
People with cirrhosis are at a higher risk of developing liver cancer
✍🏽 HOW IS IT DIAGNOSED?
Blood tests to check liver function and rule out infections like hepatitis.
Imaging tests like ultrasounds, CT scans, or MRIs to see the extent of liver damage.
Liver biopsy
Blood tests to check liver function and rule out infections like hepatitis.
Imaging tests like ultrasounds, CT scans, or MRIs to see the extent of liver damage.
Liver biopsy
✍🏽 MANAGING AND TREATING LIVER CIRRHOSIS
- Avoiding alcohol completely and managing underlying conditions like hepatitis or fatty liver disease are crucial.
- Medications are used to control symptoms like fluid buildup, bleeding, and infections
- For people with advanced cirrhosis, a liver transplant may be the only option
- Avoiding alcohol completely and managing underlying conditions like hepatitis or fatty liver disease are crucial.
- Medications are used to control symptoms like fluid buildup, bleeding, and infections
- For people with advanced cirrhosis, a liver transplant may be the only option
Focus here now:
✍🏽 HOW TO PREVENT LIVER CIRRHOSIS
- If you drink, keep it moderate. Excessive drinking over years is a major risk for cirrhosis. If possible, avoid alcohol totally
- Protect yourself from hepatitis B by getting vaccinated. Also, practice safe habits to avoid contracting hepatitis C.
- Maintaining a balanced diet and staying active can help prevent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, because it is becoming common lately
✍🏽 HOW TO PREVENT LIVER CIRRHOSIS
- If you drink, keep it moderate. Excessive drinking over years is a major risk for cirrhosis. If possible, avoid alcohol totally
- Protect yourself from hepatitis B by getting vaccinated. Also, practice safe habits to avoid contracting hepatitis C.
- Maintaining a balanced diet and staying active can help prevent non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, because it is becoming common lately
Protecting your liver is key to preventing cirrhosis, small changes in your lifestyle today can make a big difference tomorrow
The focus of this thread is your lifestyle and how it optimizing it could help your liver
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The focus of this thread is your lifestyle and how it optimizing it could help your liver
For similar health threads follow me @OGreat6
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