Starting from the mouth to prevent fatty liver in early
■ The prevalence of fatty liver is steadily rising
As our standard of living rising, more and more “rich man’s disease” appears in the people around us. Little more than moving the work to sit, eat or drink in social activities, so a lot of people, especially middle-aged growing phenomenon of excess nutrients, fatty liver is one of them. According to the data show that the prevalence of fatty liver in climbing, school-age population prevalence of about 10%, whereas in white-collar crowd, there are up to 30% of those suffering from varying degrees of fatty liver.
Under normal circumstances, a healthy adult liver, the liver fat content does not exceed the total weight of 4% to 5%. Because the liver is the body’s “chemical factory” and turn the food we eat into the classification of re-processing of fat in food processing through the liver cells can be turned into energy, support the person’s normal activities. The liver itself is not stored in fat, but if for obesity, malnutrition and other factors could upset the balance of liver fat metabolism, and continuously into the liver, fat can not be effectively addressed and the backlog in the liver cells, liver cells to make ultra-long load of work, the long run, liver problems may occur.
From the clinical point of view, once the liver fat content than normal standard limit of 5%, it can be clinically diagnosed as fatty liver. When the liver weight of its fat content accounted for 5-10% when mild fatty liver, 10-25% moderate fatty liver, 25-50% was severe fatty liver.
■ Fatty liver is a hidden “killers”
The mere existence of an excessive amount of fatty liver is not a serious problem, but as the disease worsened more and more fat cells, liver cells, the normal work will be affected, or even necrosis, so that the surrounding fibrous hyperplasia of the liver cells, a partial liver fibrosis. According to statistics, fatty liver, liver fibrosis into the probability of up to 25%, which has about 2% to 8% of patients developed into a complete whole liver fibrosis, or “cirrhosis.”
In the United States, cirrhosis of the liver in the 45-65 year-olds has been routed to the third cause of death, behind heart disease and cancer. With advanced cirrhosis of the liver will lead to vomiting blood, brain dysfunction, until life-threatening. Fatty liver is hidden in our midst, “killers”, the majority of patients with fatty liver do not have any particular feeling uncomfortable, and only in very rare cases there will be jaundice, nausea, vomiting, pain and other conditions, they are easily overlooked .
■ B super-results are not necessarily accurate
People’s Liberation Army 306 Hospital, Hepatobiliary Surgery Director Zhang’s introduction, according to a medical examination before the B-post, many of whom were doctors had told fatty liver, it would be very nervous. In fact, no need to be so serious, because the B-to make the results of fatty liver is not necessarily accurate diagnosis of fatty liver in addition to B-ultrasound, but also must have a blood lipid examination, including cholesterol and triglycerides increased, otherwise, unable to reach suffering from fatty liver diagnosis. If the lipids in the target is not very high, then most likely have not yet developed into a fatty liver, if still somewhat worried about the suspect got fatty liver, it is best to be holding the test results to identify the doctor.
If fatty liver in early stage, the best treatment is not a medicine, but rather adjust their habits to shut this off. Director Zhang that, for the early fatty liver, it is best to use diet to treat first. First, is not drinking, especially alcohol abuse. Secondly, we must pay attention to low-fat diet in their daily lives, eat less meat, animal fats and fried foods. Again, should increase aerobic exercise, if they can insist on a 40-minute bedtime each day walking, the body will help.
In strict accordance with such a personal demand to live three months later for review, if the situation has been reduced, also reducing blood lipids, then the description of the body problem is caused by bad living habits, the usual attention to correction, we can reduce fatty liver risk. If it still does not change, you can under the guidance of a doctor taking a number of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Fatty liver is a reversible early lesions, as long as early intervention to impose a strong and sustained, we will get rid of fatty liver is entirely possible the long-term trouble.