There are more and more people with liver damage nowadays, most of which are related to long-term drinking, taking medicine, unhealthy eating habits, and long-term staying up late.
Hyperal liver is damaged, it will induce fatty liver, alcohol liver , hepatitis and other diseases. If there is no active treatment, it is likely to develop into cirrhosis or liver cancer . Therefore, whether patients with abnormal liver function should take liver protection medicines should be determined according to their personal actual situation.
What are the misunderstandings about liver protection drugs?
1. Hepatic function is abnormal, take liver protection medicine immediately
Many people will be particularly anxious when they have liver function abnormal during physical examinations, but they do not know that the increase in transaminase index is generally related to liver damage. In this case, active treatment should be carried out under the advice of the doctor.
From a clinical point of view, a decrease in aminotransferase index does not mean that liver health is healthy, so you cannot simply use abnormal liver function as a criterion for liver damage, and you cannot take liver protection medicine immediately.
2. Prevent liver disease, take liver protection medicine
Prevent liver disease is a very important thing, but it is also a completely different approach to prevent liver disease by taking liver protection medicine.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the medicine is three parts toxic", so taking liver-protecting medicines may also have some side effects. Even if some liver-protecting medicines can indeed repair damaged liver, it cannot prevent liver disease . As long as the liver is not damaged or lesions, there is no need to take liver-protecting medicines to prevent liver disease.
3. Patients with liver disease, long-term medication
Liver disease is particularly harmful to physical health, so once you get sick, you should take treatment actively, but not all patients with liver disease need to take medicine for life.
For example, some hepatitis B virus carriers do not need to take liver protection drugs at all when they do not have any discomfort symptoms. They just need to go to the hospital for a regular follow-up examination. If excessive liver protection drugs are taken, it will cause damage to liver .
What are the liver-protecting medicines?
1. Antioxidant
The types of liver protection drugs can be described as diverse. The more common antioxidant liver protection drug is a liver protection drug that can protect liver blood cells and produce antioxidant stress reactions. This drug can effectively prevent free radical damage and can also enhance the antiviral ability of interferon , especially for alcoholic liver and fatty liver, and also has auxiliary therapeutic effects.
2. Anti-inflammatory drugs
There are many types of anti-inflammatory liver-protecting drugs. For example, the glycyrrhizic acid preparation that is more familiar to patients with liver disease, is a liver-protecting drug that can protect liver cells.
There is a very good therapeutic effect for patients with liver disease after taking this drug. However, it is not suitable for patients with hypernatremia or hypokalemia liver disease, otherwise serious harm may occur.
3. Repair drugs
After liver disease occurs, it is easy to cause severe damage to liver cells . In this case, you should actively take drugs that have the effect of repairing liver cell membranes. For example, patients with viral hepatitis and fatty liver can take such drugs under the guidance of a doctor, which cannot have a good repair effect and can also effectively alleviate the harm of liver disease symptoms to the body.
The above introduces some misunderstandings about taking liver-protecting drugs in patients with abnormal liver function, as well as methods for taking liver-protecting drugs correctly.
Strictly speaking, once liver disease occurs, it should be actively treated, but not all patients with liver disease need to take medication for a long time, and there should be more attention to some contraindications when choosing drugs. Only in this way can we avoid entering misunderstandings and posing a great threat to the liver.
