What are symptoms of liver damage?!
Question: Usually the liver develops inflammation inside of it causing it to increase in size.
This causes tiredness and depending on
what caused this to occur, maybe
nausea and fever will develop. They do
not consider this to be damage as yet,
as with medication and stopping the
cause will help the liver cells to heal.
However, once this inflammation isn't
treated and if the cause is something
that can be eliminated...it progresses
to the death of the liver cells and that
is when major symptoms will appear.
The liver is a very quiet organ, as far
as damage is concerned. Someone can
walk around for years not even knowing
they have anything wrong with their liver.
The symptom start to develop when the
liver isn't able to do the functions it once
did to keep the body functioning well.
The very first sign that usually shows up
is Jaundice: the yellowing of the whites of
the eyes and skin. It also causes the
urine to darken and the stool to become
pale in color. You can see this best in
outside lighting as inside lighting can mask
it. Itching is another side effect.
It can proceed to developing spider like
veins on the chest, neck and shoulders.
Red palms of the hand and soles of the feet.
As the condition worsens, the patient
develops fluid build up in the abdomen,
known as ascites...caused because the
liver isn't able to make a protein, known
as albumin, which normally keeps the
fluid in our vascular system but now it
seeps out and collects in the abdomen.
Another type of fluid also occurs because
of the high sodium build up in the body,
known as edema. It usually causes swelling
of the legs and feet.
Then there is a condition known as encephalopathy, when the liver isn't able
to convert ammonia, which is a by product
of proteins, into urea to be disposed of.
This ammonia goes into the brain and
causes the patient confusion. As the
ammonia increases, the patient can go
into a coma.
There is also varies. In this case, because
blood can no longer flow well into the liver,
it backs up into vessels that normally does
not handle this amount of fluid and cause
increased pressure. This is known as
portal hypertension. These vessels can
become weak in spots and balloon outward.
They usually find this in the esophagus,
rectum, or belly button area and they can
break open and cause internal bleeding...
which is an emergency situation.
It would be hard to list all the symptoms of
liver damage...so I am posting a link so
you can read more about it:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases...
I hope this helps you.
Answers: Usually the liver develops inflammation inside of it causing it to increase in size.
This causes tiredness and depending on
what caused this to occur, maybe
nausea and fever will develop. They do
not consider this to be damage as yet,
as with medication and stopping the
cause will help the liver cells to heal.
However, once this inflammation isn't
treated and if the cause is something
that can be eliminated...it progresses
to the death of the liver cells and that
is when major symptoms will appear.
The liver is a very quiet organ, as far
as damage is concerned. Someone can
walk around for years not even knowing
they have anything wrong with their liver.
The symptom start to develop when the
liver isn't able to do the functions it once
did to keep the body functioning well.
The very first sign that usually shows up
is Jaundice: the yellowing of the whites of
the eyes and skin. It also causes the
urine to darken and the stool to become
pale in color. You can see this best in
outside lighting as inside lighting can mask
it. Itching is another side effect.
It can proceed to developing spider like
veins on the chest, neck and shoulders.
Red palms of the hand and soles of the feet.
As the condition worsens, the patient
develops fluid build up in the abdomen,
known as ascites...caused because the
liver isn't able to make a protein, known
as albumin, which normally keeps the
fluid in our vascular system but now it
seeps out and collects in the abdomen.
Another type of fluid also occurs because
of the high sodium build up in the body,
known as edema. It usually causes swelling
of the legs and feet.
Then there is a condition known as encephalopathy, when the liver isn't able
to convert ammonia, which is a by product
of proteins, into urea to be disposed of.
This ammonia goes into the brain and
causes the patient confusion. As the
ammonia increases, the patient can go
into a coma.
There is also varies. In this case, because
blood can no longer flow well into the liver,
it backs up into vessels that normally does
not handle this amount of fluid and cause
increased pressure. This is known as
portal hypertension. These vessels can
become weak in spots and balloon outward.
They usually find this in the esophagus,
rectum, or belly button area and they can
break open and cause internal bleeding...
which is an emergency situation.
It would be hard to list all the symptoms of
liver damage...so I am posting a link so
you can read more about it:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases...
I hope this helps you.
jaundice, weight loss, abnornal blood count,
and a impaired or high sed rate to name a few
turning yellow is a biggy! so is a huge ol belly full of fluid!
jaundice. swollen liver.
tiredness change of skin color