"Yellow-faced woman", this is an adjective that almost every woman hates. After all, my face turned yellow due to long-term hard work for the family, but in the end I got such a title.
But has anyone ever thought that has yellowed may not be a normal thing, but is sick because your liver is ?
In fact, not only women will have yellow faces, but men's faces will also turn yellow. The reason may be because of poor liver.
As an important organ in the human body, the liver has different pain nerve distribution from other organs, but is located in the liver envelope part. If the patient is sick, the parenchymal lesions in the liver will not directly affect the liver capsule, so many early pains cannot be conveyed, resulting in the best time for treatment of liver disease.
But liver disease can actually "be on the face". Although the pain cannot be conveyed, it will be reflected on the face. Yellowing face is the most common manifestation of liver disease. As for why liver disease makes your face turn yellow? Let’s explain it to you below.
Why does my face turn yellow if I have liver disease?
The "face" prophet of liver disease, this statement is widely circulated among the people.
In fact, this statement has some truth. Many liver diseases will manifest on the face after causing liver damage.
For example, if the patient shows such symptoms on his face, he should be alert. If you want to know why your face turns yellow after getting liver disease, you must first understand what functions the liver has.
Liver function is mainly based on metabolic function . Usually, is involved in the human body's process of metabolizing vitamins, hormones and water . In addition, it also has the function of to secrete and excrete bile, detoxify function, and regulate in the blood system of .
and liver disease will make your face turn yellow because the bile is blocked from being excreted, which accumulates in the bile tract , which makes the bilirubin in the blood unable to be excreted from the body and accumulates in the human body, causing the bilirubin content in to be too high in .
If you have liver disease, not only will your face turn yellow (this symptom is clinically called jaundice ), but also will show symptoms such as yellow eyes, yellow skin throughout the body, and yellow urine .
The jaundice symptoms related to liver disease are mainly divided into three types, including obstructive jaundice (cholestasis jaundice), congenital non-hemolytic jaundice, and hepatocyte jaundice .
, and obstructive jaundice can be divided into extrahepatic obstruction, intrahepatic obstruction and intrahepatic cholestasis , respectively, due to cholelithiasis , inflammation, tumor, etc.; intrahepatic bile duct stones , tumor, cholangitis , etc.; viral hepatitis , drug-induced liver damage and other diseases.
Congenital non-hemolytic jaundice is caused by the congenital enzyme defect of in , which leads to disorders in hepatocytes in , which generally shows the characteristics of elevated non-binding bilirubin. Hepatocyte jaundice is caused by diseases such as infection, cirrhosis, , alcoholic liver disease, and drug-induced liver damage.
Therefore, once the patient develops jaundice symptoms such as yellow complexion, he should go to the hospital for treatment in time. By judging the specific cause of the disease, the liver disease can be treated as soon as possible. In addition to this, there are three other "face-hungry" symptoms caused by liver diseases, which need to be taken seriously by patients.
There are three other symptoms of "face-up" which may be that the liver is calling for help
If the patient's liver is damaged, in addition to the typical symptoms of jaundice, it may also have black complexion, spider nevus , prone to acne, acne and other symptoms. If these symptoms occur, it often means that the patient's liver disease is relatively serious.
First of all, the complexion is dark , which is one of the common symptoms of patients with chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and other patients.
Because the patient's liver function is abnormal, the human body's endocrine hormone level will be disordered, which will affect the metabolism of the body's pigment. increases the tyrosinase level in the skin , and increases the melanin content .
Melanin cannot be excreted from the body and accumulates on the skin, which will make dark, dark, and darker around the lips. Some may also form chloasma and other skin problems on the patient's face. Melanin accumulation around the eyes is particularly obvious, very similar to panda eye , which may also be caused by liver disease.
Let’s talk about spider nevus, which is one of the typical manifestations of cirrhosis.
is called a spider's nevus because it looks very much like a spider, with a mole raised on the surface of the skin in the center, extending out some branches similar to spider's feet, but this is actually just the dilation of the peripheral artery and capillaries of the skin of .
The formation of spider nevi is related to the patient's liver loss . After the patient's liver function is reduced, the level of inactivated estrogen in the liver will increase, which will cause the peripheral artery and capillaries to dilate to form spider nevi. It usually appears on 's face, neck, trunk, and other body parts.
Finally, there is acne growth, which may also be caused by liver disease.
Many patients have these symptoms and think that they are not doing their facial cleansing properly, but in fact, this is very likely because the patient's liver function is damaged.
After the liver function of patients is damaged and decreased, will destroy the corpus luteal hormone balance in the human body . The corpus luteal hormone balance has the effect of promoting sebum secretion of , so sebum secretion will gradually increase, resulting in the skin being more prone to acne and acne.
The liver has a strong detoxification function, and therefore, it also has a strong tolerance for toxins and will not be easily transmitted to the brain nerves. To this end, if these three types of symptoms appear on the patient's face, you must pay attention to it and never ignore the "suffering signals" conveyed by the liver. At the same time, measures should be taken to protect the liver in daily life. You may wish to continue reading.
The liver is not good? Teach you four protection measures
According to relevant statistics, as of 2015, there were more than 700 million chronic liver disease patients around the world, of which my country accounted for 2.431 billion . The increase in liver disease patients year by year has become a major problem facing my country in terms of health problems. How to protect the liver? What specific measures can be taken? The answers to these questions urgently need to be popularized among the people.
, quitting alcohol
The liver is easily damaged, which is related to the long-term intake of alcohol by Chinese residents. Alcoholism is one of the main reasons for the high incidence of liver diseases among Chinese residents. Therefore, if you want to protect the liver, must first quit drinking .
Long-term large intake of alcohol will cause the ethanol in the alcohol to acetaldehyde in the liver. The hepatotoxicity and carcinogenicity of acetaldehyde will poison the human liver , causing pathological changes such as liver cells regeneration, fibrosis , and forming alcoholic liver disease .
Alcohol liver disease shows almost no symptoms until the liver is severely damaged. As the degree of liver damage increases, it will gradually show obvious symptoms such as fatigue , loss of appetite, discomfort in the liver, jaundice , etc. If it cannot be discovered in time at this time, the disease worsens to the late stage and alcoholic cirrhosis will form. At this time, liver damage is irreversible. Stopping alcohol can only prevent further damage to the liver.
Therefore, before alcohol causes irreversible damage to the patient's liver, patients should quit drinking in time to avoid the damage caused by alcohol to the liver reaching the threshold ( drink more than 80 ml of per day within two weeks or consume a large amount of alcohol daily for five consecutive years, more than 40 ml of men and more than 20 ml of in women).
. Prevent viral infectionViral infection is also one of the leading factors for the high incidence of liver disease in Chinese residents . Data shows that among the patients with liver inflammation in my country, more than 50% of the patients with viral hepatitis, so prevents viral infection is an important measure to protect the liver .
On clinical medicine , the liver can be divided into five categories of virus infection, namely hepatitis A , hepatitis B, hepatitis C , hepatitis D , and hepatitis E . As the name suggests, it is caused by the liver being infected with hepatitis A virus, hepatitis B virus , hepatitis C virus, hepatitis D virus , and hepatitis E virus.
The clinical manifestations of these five types of viral hepatitis are relatively similar, mostly because has no appetite, fatigue and abnormal liver function . Among them, A and HE is an acute infection, and is transmitted through fecal oral fecal transmission, and the other three s are chronic infection, and is transmitted through blood, maternal and infant and sexual transmission. If patients want to prevent liver infection, they can start with the transmission method and cut off the source of infection.
3, Reasonable diet
The incidence of liver disease among Chinese residents is high, which is also related to unhealthy diet , so a reasonable diet can play an important role in protecting the liver . For example, eating spicy and irritating diets often will attack to increase gastric acid secretion and , which will increase the burden of liver function. For this reason, patients need to maintain a light diet and control the number of times they consume spicy food.
Not only that, maintaining a high-calorie diet with high sugar and high fat for a long time, or maintaining a fully vegetarian diet structure for a long time may cause fatty liver . Faced with a high-calorie diet, the liver of cannot fully metabolize in vitro; while a vegetarian diet may reduce the apolipoprotein in . Therefore, two unhealthy diets may cause fat to accumulate in the body. Therefore, if patients want to protect the liver, they need to maintain a balanced and reasonable diet structure.
4. Ensure adequate sleep
Staying up late is also a major factor that damages the liver . Therefore, ensures sufficient sleep , which is particularly important for protecting liver health.
This is mainly because liver will enter a dormant state in the early morning and start self-healing . At this time, if the human body cannot enter a sleep state, it will hinder the liver's self-repair. This will cause the detoxification function of to begin to decline in , and it will not be able to bear the daily metabolic detoxification work.
Final summary
As a major liver disease country , a large number of liver disease patients have passed away every year. For example, in 2021, the well-known musician Zhao Yingjun and actor Wu Mengda . According to relevant data statistics, for cirrhosis alone, there are about 2.4 million patients who died of liver cancer . It can be seen that liver disease poses an extremely huge threat to Chinese residents.
Therefore, everyone should not only learn to accept the "suffering signals" conveyed by the liver in a timely manner, but also learn to take measures to protect the liver in daily life, and do not wait until the liver is irreversible and then regret it.
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