The liver plays a vital role in the body due to its powerful functions of metabolism, detoxification, synthesis, and secretion and digestion.
Uncontrolled drinking, drug abuse, high-fat and high-calorie diet, excessive**, bad mood and staying up late will harm the liver, and it is easy to induce fatty liver or alcoholic liver, viral hepatitis, etc. There are so many liver diseases, how to make a clear diagnosis.
How to diagnose liver disease?
1. Alcoholic liver.
Aspartate aminotransferase less than 400 units and alanine aminotransferase greater than 2 units should be highly suspicious for alcoholic liver disease. If the ratio of the two is more than 3, it may also be alcoholic liver disease.
2. Viral hepatitis.
Regardless of the type of acute hepatitis virus, liver function tests are elevated, so serum antibodies should be checked in patients with hepatitis A, B, and hepatitis C, D, and E. In addition, other viruses can also cause hepatitis, such as cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus.
3. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Mildly elevated aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase levels should raise suspicion for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Unlike alcoholic liver disease, the aspartate aminotransferase level in this patient is higher than alanine aminotransferase, which rarely exceeds 300 units.
4. Autoimmune hepatitis.
Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic disease characterized by persistent hepatocellular inflammation and necrosis, which can progress to cirrhosis or liver cancer in severe cases. Autoimmune hepatitis is common in women and presents with elevated liver function tests for no apparent reason. The diagnosis is confirmed by characteristic serological markers, such as anti-smooth muscle antibodies and antinuclear antibodies.
5. Drug-induced liver injury.
A variety of drugs can cause drug-induced liver damage, including antiepileptic drugs, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antituberculosis drugs, and statins, as well as antibiotics, traditional Chinese herbal medicines, and biologics. The disease needs to be discontinued to determine whether liver biochemical markers can be recovered.
6. Wilson disease.
Wilson disease is an autosomal recessive disorder with a low incidence characterized by excessive copper deposits in the liver, brain, and other tissues, which can induce hepatic, neurological, and psychiatric manifestations, including hepatosplenomegaly, acute liver failure, cirrhosis, and abnormal liver enzymes.
Patients with persistently elevated alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase should have a serum ceruloplasmin test to screen for the disease.
Different liver diseases have different characteristics and diagnostic methods, but their common points are early detection, early diagnosis and early **. Protect your liver in daily life and get vaccinated against hepatitis B and hepatitis A as soon as possible. Maintain a regular schedule and get enough sleep every day to promote the repair and regeneration of damaged cells, and go to the hospital regularly for liver check-ups.
How to nourish the liver and protect the liver of office workers.
Resting on time every day, standardizing work and rest, and developing good living habits are the things that are really beneficial to the liver. Because rest can reduce physical exertion, reduce the breakdown of glycogen and protein, and the production of lactic acid, reducing the burden on the liver.
It is worth noting that waiting until the body feels tired before resting, this passive rest can actually have a bad effect on the liver. Because at this time, the metabolic wastes in the body have accumulated too much, and the wastes that need to be metabolized by the liver have also accumulated too much, and the burden on the liver has increased a lot.
We know that 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. is the time for liver detoxification, usually this time when the liver meridian is the most vigorous, if you can enter a deep sleep state at this time, the blood can flow smoothly into the liver, and the normal work of the liver can be guaranteed.
Every day from 1 pm to 5 pm is the weakest time for the liver, so it is best for office workers to arrange their hard work in the morning, and in the afternoon they should take the initiative to find time to rest, and it is best to rest for 5 minutes every 1 hour of work, which can reduce liver loss and will also be beneficial to physical health.