1, attention to alcoholic hepatitis.
If you have been diagnosed with alcoholic fatty liver, you must always pay attention. This disease is relatively common in the west. In Europe and America, the probability of death due to cirrhosis due to drinking accounts for the top five causes of death, and it has shown a downward trend in recent years. In China, with the rapid economic development this year, more and more people are suffering from alcoholic hepatitis.
The incidence of alcoholic hepatitis is increasing year by year, and many patients are in their forties. The results of this survey show that we should pay attention to the consequences of excessive drinking as soon as possible and reduce daily drinking.
Patients with alcoholic hepatitis often have the problems of vitamin deficiency and protein calorie deficiency. The change of nutritional status is closely related to the prevention of alcoholic hepatitis. Therefore, nutritional support therapy is absolutely effective in improving the prognosis of alcoholic hepatitis. For the treatment of alcoholic hepatitis, the first thing is to give up drinking as soon as possible. Only abstinence can cure it.
Long-term drinking can easily lead to malnutrition. Patients need to eat high-energy and high-protein foods to supplement nutrition. Patients should also strictly control the intake of fat, and the calories of fat should account for 15%-20% of the total calories, not more. We should pay attention to the details of diet and follow the health guidelines in our life.
2. The harm of alcoholic hepatitis.
1, which affects the absorption of nutrients.
The liver is the largest digestive gland in human body, and the liver of alcoholic hepatitis has been seriously damaged. Therefore, colleagues of alcoholic hepatitis will not only destroy liver cells, but also affect the body's synthesis and absorption of protein and vitamins, which will eventually lead to malnutrition, emaciation, fatigue and fatigue.
2. Damage to the liver
Patients with alcoholic fatty liver will eventually develop steatohepatitis, liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and primary liver cancer with fatty infiltration, inflammation and hepatocyte necrosis if they are not actively treated.
3, the immune system is reduced and it is easy to be infected.
Due to malnutrition and various complications in the course of alcoholic hepatitis, patients with alcoholic hepatitis have low immunity and are prone to infectious diseases, such as lung infection and bacterial spontaneous peritonitis.
4, gastrointestinal bleeding
If alcoholic hepatitis is not controlled and treated in time, it will cause portal hypertension, which may lead to upper gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms, ulcer or esophageal varices bleeding, and even shock and other critical situations.
5. Life-threatening
Alcoholic hepatitis is harmful to the body in many ways, whether it is upper gastrointestinal bleeding caused by alcohol, electrolyte disorder, acid-base metabolism imbalance and secondary infection caused by alcoholic hepatitis, if it is not treated promptly and effectively, it will be life-threatening and have a high mortality rate.