How to Protect Your Liver
Judging by the latest statistics, we find that lots of peoaple suffer from a liver disease.
Before consuming any food or medicine, think that all these pass through the liver, which is able to determine which of the substances ingested are really necessary for the body. It is therefore essential to protect, by taking some simple measures of food hygiene and nutrition and we do some routine annual tests. The liver is a hub for the body and everything that we ingest (chew and swallow) go one way or another in the liver. As such, we must be aware that any medication for a disease or another they reach the liver, which in turn, must do something with it – you need to metabolize them.
How to Protect Your Liver
The liver is considered the “brains” of the digestive system that is able to determine which of the substances ingested are really necessary for the body. If you want to check your liver health, it is necessary to do these tests:
* Bilirubin: Increase in hepatitis, alcoholic fatty liver, cholestatic liver cirrhosis, obstructive jaundice and hemolytic anemia;
* Ammonia: high levels indicate a possible cirrhosis;
* Albumin: in liver diseases have a low concentration;
* ALT: ALT is increasing in the case of hepatitis, cirrhosis, cancer;
* Alkaline phosphatase: in case of obstructive jaundice;
Healthy diet can protect your liver
A healthy diet that consists of liver:
* Fresh food (avoiding freezing);
* Fruits and vegetables according to digestive tolerance;
* Limiting alcohol consumption;
* Avoid excessive consumption of carbonated drinks, fried foods, smoked meat, fatty foods (cheese, meat) and eggs.
Chronic infection with hepatitis B and C is a public health problem worldwide, the real frequency of these infections is very high. Although the two viruses are different mode of action and treatment, both lead development of chronic liver diseases (chronic hepatitis) with their rapid progression, untreated, to cirrhosis and an increased risk of graft liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) or in chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis.
Note!
* Cirrhotic patients without virus or C virus should be vaccinated against the virus B, any further aggression in the liver resulting in more accelerated evolution for major complications (gastrointestinal bleeding, cancer);
* Even if a good period of time does not cause symptoms, chronic hepatitis C is treated with utmost seriousness because of resistance to treatment and evolution of serious disease (cirrhosis and liver cancer).
