Fatty liver: Symptoms due to prevention and treatment

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            Fatty liver: Symptoms due to prevention and treatment

One in every five people in India has a higher fat requirement and one in every 10 people has a fatty liver disease. Therefore, it becomes very important that we understand the importance of this disease and be careful about your health.
Fatty liver: Symptoms due to prevention and treatment

 What is fatty liver disease?

Liver is the second largest organ of our body (the first skin). The weight of the liver is about one and a half kilo and it is an essential part of the body. Its work is to process everything that we eat or drink, as well as filter out many types of harmful substances from our blood.
The food we eat is the process of processing nutrients such as carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals. If the liver does not function properly, the body's metabolic balance is also confused.
Generally, the liver gets repaired by replacing spoiled cells with new liver cells. But when repeatedly damaged, he can not heal himself and in such a way the scar tissue replaces the normal liver tissue. This condition is called Cirrhosis.
However, it is necessary to treat it as soon as it is known or else it can permanently damage the liver if there is a lot of progress.

Symptoms of fatty liver:
Symptoms of fatty liver are not very clear. Often those who have this disease do not know about it. The symptoms associated with it may take many years to come.

  • Tiredness
  • Weight event
  • Not feeling hungry
  • Weakness
  • Nausea
  • Confusion
  • Have trouble concentrating
  • Increase in size of liver
  • Abdominal pain
  • Dark skin patch on your neck or under your arms
NOTE: If you see an increase in these symptoms after drinking alcohol then you may have alcoholic liver disease.

In addition, if fatty liver disease cirrhosis or liver failure is progressing then you may see these symptoms-

  • Increase in the first, the stomach full of fluid
  • Yellowing in skin and eyes
  • Confusion
  • Tendency to bleed more easily
Fatty liver Causes:

 The most common cause of fatty liver is drinking alcohol. However, people who do not drink alcohol can also be fatty liver.
Fatty liver develops when the body makes too much fat or does not metabolize rapidly made fat. If this happens, the excess fat which is collected in the liver cells is collected and thus the person gets fatty liver disease.

NOTE: High fat, high sugar diet can be helpful in fatty liver but this disease can not cause the disease directly.

Apart from Alcoholism, fatty liver may have other causes:
  • obesity
  • Hyperlipidemia, or high levels of blood fat
  • diabetes
  • Genetic
  • Fast weight event
  • Side effects of aspirin, steroids, tamoxifen, etc.
Types of Fatty liver:
There are two major types of fatty liver disease-

  • Nonalcoholic (non-alcoholic - i.e., which is not alcohol)
  • Alcoholic (alcoholic - which means alcohol)
Non-Alcoholic Fatty liver disease:

 Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) occurs when the liver is having trouble breaking down fat, due to which the fat accumulates in the liver tissue. When more than 10% of the total weight of the liver gets fat then it is diagnosed as NAFLD.

Alcoholic Fatty liver disease:

 Alcoholic fatty liver is the initial stage of liver disease related to alcohol. Drinking more alcohol leads to liver saliva and does not break the fat. It is very important to quit alcohol when this happens. Normally, when fat is dropped, more fat is lost within one and a half to two months.
But if alcohol is not left on so much then the person can become cirrhosis and he may die.

Apart from these two major types, fatty liver disease can also be of the following types:

  • Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) / Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
  • Alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) / Alcoholic steatohepatitis
  • Acute fatty liver of pregnancy/fatty liver during pregnancy

Swelling in the liver in NASH and ASH. Fatigue, stomach aches, weight loss are symptoms of it. Generally, 40 to 50 years of age people get this disease.

In very rare cases women may have fatty liver during pregnancy. If this occurs, there may be frequent vomiting, jaundice, and pain in the stomach. Most women get rid of this disease after delivery.

Who is more prone to fatty liver?

  • People who are overweight or who fall into the obese category.
  • People who have Type 2 diabetes.
  • People who drink more alcohol.
  • Those who consume more than the recommended dose of certain types of drugs such as acetaminophen (Tylenol), antidepressants, etc.
  • Pregnant women
  • People whose cholesterol is high.
  • Malnutrition affected people
How Fatty Liver Detects?

  • Physically by examine

If your liver is swollen, then the doctor can detect the increased liver by looking at your stomach. Apart from this, seeing the rest of the symptom, he can reach the conclusion whether you have fatty liver or not.

If you are not feeling hungry or feeling tired, then tell the doctor. Also, if you are taking alcohol or eating any medicines or supplements, give the doctor complete information.

  • Blood test

If the liver enzyme in the Routine blood test more than normal, then you may have fatty liver. However, there may be other reasons for liver enzymes, so confirming fatty liver may also require further investigation.

  • Ultrasound / CT Scan / MRI

The doctor can also tell you for ultrasound, CT scan or MRI. If your liver has an extra fat, then it will appear as a white area in the image.

By these imaging studies, the doctor will know whether your liver is fatty or not, but it will not know how much damage has been reached to the liver.

  • Liver biopsy

The surest way of finding fatty liver is liver biopsy. In this, the doctor removes the tissue of the liver for testing through a needle. From this test, it also comes to know what is the reason for fatty liver.

Treatment of fatty liver:

 There is no specific medicine or surgery to cure fatty liver. Rather the doctor will suggest reducing the risk factors of this disease. Such as-

  • Reduce or stop drinking alcohol
  • Controlling Your Cholesterol
  • Reducing intake of sugar and saturated fatty acids
  • Weight event
  • Controlling Blood Sugar
  • Manual labor
  • Avoid some mines
  • Eat fresh fruits and vegetables
  • Chicken or fish instead of red meat
How Fatal Liver Can Be Fatal?

 Since the symptoms of fatty liver are not very clear, this disease is not detected early. But after getting detected, you can control the disease by taking the right steps.
Mostly fatty liver cases do not change in liver disease because the liver itself is able to repair itself very much. But for this, you have to co-operate with the liver and you will get it when you keep your cholesterol, diabetes, obesity etc. under control.

If you are alcohol then you have to quit drinking or at least reduce your alcohol intake.

But if the fatty liver is not reverse even after doing everything, then it can be transformed into liver disease and cirrhosis.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver is comparatively less dangerous and in most cases, liver does not change in scarring or cirrhosis.

But in the case of alcoholic fatty liver, if there is delay in detecting or being detected, the person continues to consume alcohol. The chances of having liver damage and cirrhosis greatly increase.

Fatty liver prevention

 If you want to avoid fatty liver, then take care of the liver. For which you can do these things-

  • Do not eat alcohol or moderately Moderately means more than 2 drinks per day for men and 1 drink per day for women.
  • If you do not have diabetes, it is very good but if you do not care about it
  • Even if cholesterol is treated properly
  • Exercise for at least 30 minutes daily
  • Keep your Body Mass Index (BMI) correct
          Friends, hopefully, this information related to fatty liver will work for you.

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