Prolonged pruritus is a warning sign of liver disease

Diets high in chemicals, colorants, food contaminated with mold ., unsafe sex contribute to increasing liver diseases.

The liver is one of the most important organs in the body, taking over 500 different functions. Liver diseases often go silently, with no symptoms except serious injury, so it is difficult to detect at an early stage. If not monitored, timely treatment of liver diseases will lead to irreversible severe liver function, cirrhosis, liver cancer and possibly death.

Master, doctor Le Thi Tuyet Phuong, Head of Department of Internal Medicine, 115 People's Hospital said that most of liver disease is caused by bad habits such as alcohol, beer, cigarettes, unsafe food, ways unhealthy living.

Some signs of liver function impairment and liver disease warning

- Excessive weight gain or weight loss cannot explain the cause.

- Sleep disorders, memory disorders, drowsiness, coma .

- Fatigue often.

- Loss of sexual desire, impaired sexual ability.

- Pruritus lasts and spreads.

In severe stage, there are often signs of jaundice, yellow eyes, dark urine, abdominal pain, vomiting, loss of appetite, vomiting of blood, black or bloody bowel movements, abnormal big belly .

Using food with mold will harm the liver.(Illustration)

In order to help detoxify the liver, restore and enhance liver function, in diet and daily life, it is necessary to avoid liver damage agents such as:

- Drink lots of alcohol.

- Unbalanced diet: high in fat, low in fiber.

- Regular use of unsafe foods (many chemicals, colorants, food contaminated with mold .).

- Use the drug not as directed by the doctor.

- Polluted habitat, smoking .

- Acts to increase the risk of liver disease infection: unsafe injections, unsafe sex .

- Obesity, malnutrition.

Need to strengthen liver protection agents:

- Exercise, strengthen health, control body weight.

- Periodic examination and examination, especially for those with risk factors (hepatitis B and C infection, heavy alcohol consumption, families with liver disease and obesity).

- Appropriate diet: low fat, avoid excess protein, sweetener, do not eat too much food prepared in fried, burnt, spicy and chemical .

- Eat plenty of cereals, greens, fresh fruits containing fiber.

- Stay away from stimulants that contain high alcohol content, especially alcohol. Alcohol is the "enemy" that damages liver functions.

- Hepatitis B vaccine if there are no contraindications, vaccination helps avoid 90% risk of infection for children and adults.