When a patient visits a doctor every day, the doctor first looks at the appearance and preliminarily judges whether there is a disease. In traditional Chinese medicine, the internal disease can be seen through the appearance of "looking". In Western medicine, the disease is first observed through "vision". And looking at liver disease through facial expression is the most important way in daily life.
Let's take a look at the function of the liver in order to understand which functional changes will be caused if the liver is significantly damaged.
The liver is the largest solid organ in our body. It accounts for about 1/50 of our body weight and weighs about 1200-1500g. Therefore, seeing such a high proportion of it, we can see that its function is important for importance of the human body.
It is vividly called a "chemical factory" of the human body, which plays the role of metabolizing and synthesizing the three nutrients of sugar, fat and protein in the human body; it can also secrete and synthesize bile to participate in digestion; Relieve endogenous and exogenous toxins, avoid the human body from being invaded by toxins; give the human body the necessary coagulation factor to participate in hemostasis; at the same time, it also has functions such as immunity.
Therefore, the liver has these powerful functions. Although the liver has a strong self-healing function, if it is continuously damaged, once the liver is damaged significantly, especially when liver failure occurs, it will show liver dysfunction, and the human body will also showing many symptoms.
is displayed on the face, mainly with these characteristics.
First of all, when we see this topic, we may first think of the symptom of " liver disease face ".
At this point, the face looks dark, dull, dry and inelastic. Some people describe the color as "bronze", which is more typical of facial expressions.
The formation of the face of liver disease is mainly related to the disturbance of the body's hormone metabolism caused by liver damage, resulting in melanosis.
Furthermore, the eye circles turn black.
In fact, this is also a type of face with liver disease, mainly due to the obvious melanin pigmentation around the eye circles, which is more obvious than other parts of the face.
This is also related to melanin pigmentation caused by the hormone metabolism disorder caused by liver disease, but the skin around the eyelids is more prone to this situation.
Furthermore, the lips are dark purple.
Dark purple on the lips is often regarded as cyanosis manifestations of hypoxia, but for patients with chronic liver disease, dark purple on the lips may also appear. At this time, the patient is not caused by hypoxia, so there will be no obvious symptoms such as wheezing.
Furthermore, the skin is yellow.
This yellow color does not mean that our skin is yellow, but a relatively dark yellow color, which is medically called jaundice. In severe cases, the iris of the eyes is yellow, and the skin is often itchy.
This is caused by the bilirubin carrying barrier caused by liver disease.
Furthermore, the nose and mouth are prone to bleeding.
When the secretion of coagulation factors by the liver decreases, it will cause bleeding in the oral mucosa, gums, and nasal mucosa, and the hemostasis will be slowed down during bleeding. These symptoms are not typical, only the symptoms of nose and mouth bleeding, mostly caused by other reasons. So you need to look at it together with other symptoms.
Furthermore, spider mole appears on the face.
Similarly, when the liver function declines, the inactivation of estrogen is reduced, and the capillaries are dilated. The is shaped like a small dot with radial capillaries around it, like a spider, so it is called "spider mole". Mainly occurs in the face, neck, chest and so on.
Therefore, when liver damage is obvious, it will bring physical discomfort, and many symptoms will appear on the face. And when the liver is damaged, there will also be some systemic manifestations, such as listlessness, loss of appetite, upper abdominal pain, physical weakness, weight loss, indigestion and so on.
In fact, when the liver damage is obvious, the manifestations are mostly systemic, not just in one aspect.
For symptoms manifested on the face, if you suspect that there is a liver problem, you should do relevant tests in time, such as checking liver function, color Doppler ultrasound, abdominal CT, etc. Symptoms brought by relevant examinations are the most important basis for diagnosis. And many times only through the performance outside, sometimes not very typical.
For the liver, we must protect it every day. Although the liver has a strong self-healing ability, once the damage to the liver is greater than the self-healing ability of the liver, obvious damage will occur. Serious damage to health. Therefore, we must do a good job of protecting the liver every day.
For example, for hepatitis patients, do a good job in daily management, test liver function immediately, and apply antiviral drugs under the guidance of a doctor if necessary. For people who do not have hepatitis B and , they must also take precautions to avoid infection with hepatitis B.
Furthermore, for the liver, be sure not to drink excessively for a long time, especially not to drink too much, because the damage of alcohol to the liver is obvious.
Furthermore, do not use drugs indiscriminately.
It is a three-part drug. Many drugs are metabolized in the liver. Many drugs are hepatotoxic and will aggravate liver damage. Therefore, it is necessary to take medicines safely every day, under the guidance of doctors, and do not use them arbitrarily.
Furthermore, eat regularly and avoid overeating.
Also pay attention to the daily diet, to eat regularly, avoid overeating, avoid long-term high-fat diet, avoid long-term high-cholesterol diet, appropriate balanced diet, light diet, avoid fatty liver , which damages liver function.
Furthermore, avoid long-term anger on a daily basis.
For the liver, anger damages the liver, and long-term bad emotions bring damage to the liver. So you have to manage your emotions on a daily basis.
Furthermore, obese people need to lose weight.
For obese people, most of them have obvious fatty liver, which will put a burden on the liver. It will also aggravate liver damage, so avoid obesity every day, and obese people should pay attention to losing weight.
To sum up, when the liver is obviously damaged, it will bring discomfort to the whole body, and there will also be some superficial symptoms on the face. It is necessary to detect the changes brought about by the liver every day, and seek medical attention in time if necessary, and the prevention of the liver is the most important.
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