With the increase of health awareness, people nowadays regard physical examinations as a standard for health and take time out of time to go to the hospital for related physical examinations every year. Nowadays, many minor problems that do not show symptoms are gradually becoming well-known to people and have become heart disease. liver cyst is one of them.
In fact, when you see the word "swelling", you are prone to associate it with the tumor and suspect that liver cysts will become cancer. In fact, this disease does not require excessive treatment. The facts are far from what everyone imagines. As long as you pay more attention in daily life, there will generally be no great harm.
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First understand what is a liver cyst?
liver cyst is a place-occupying lesion that appears inside the liver. It is a thin membrane with some cystic lesions formed by liquid. The liver cyst is a benign lesion. It is clinically divided into parasitic and non-parasite liver cysts . Non-parasite liver cysts can also be divided into congenital, inflammatory, traumatic and neoplastic liver cysts.
patients usually have obvious symptoms such as fever, pain, liver large , discomfort at the right upper abdomen, abdominal distension, dull abdominal pain and abdominal mass. simple liver cyst grows slowly, the cyst is small in size, and does not compress adjacent tissues or organs, often without any symptoms or signs. When the cyst grows and pledges its adjacent tissues or organs, corresponding symptoms and manifestations appear.
liver cyst will not become cancerous. Its harm to the human body is mainly related to the size of the liver cyst. The oblique diameter of the right lobe of the normal liver of the human body is 12~14 cm. If the liver cyst is within 5 cm and there are no symptoms of discomfort, it is generally not necessary to deal with it. If the liver cyst is large, especially if there is a 10-cm or 8 cm liver cyst in the liver, it will squeeze the normal liver tissue, causing swelling and pain in the liver area, and even symptoms such as liver area lumps, which seriously affects the quality of life. Although the liver cyst will not become cancerous, active treatment should be carried out to relieve compression.
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What abnormal symptoms will the body be?
Many people are relatively unfamiliar with liver cysts. There are few people infected with this disease around us. Experts say that liver cysts are also very serious injuring the body. If you want to stop it, you must figure out its external manifestations.
. Liver cysts can cause liver pain, sometimes abdominal distension, sometimes cysts suddenly enlarge or secondary infection, which may suddenly exacerbate or have a fever, sometimes mass can be palpated in the upper abdomen, and some patients have symptoms such as abdominal pain, vomiting, jaundice .
2. Patients with stomach compression cysts do not dare to eat normally or have a full meal. When squeezing the heart, heart failure may occur. Some patients must inhale oxygen every day because of the cyst of the left lobe of the liver squeezed to the heart. Moreover, due to heart failure, their physical condition is getting worse and worse.
3. When the cyst is too large, symptoms such as indigestion, nausea, vomiting, discomfort or pain in the upper right abdomen may occur. Surgical windows can be opened to drainage and the cyst wall can be removed. Or after ultrasound-guided puncture drainage, anhydrous alcohol can be injected into harden the cyst wall and the efficacy is satisfactory.
4. A few liver cysts may experience cyst rupture, bleeding in the cyst, infection or rapid growth in the short term, and tend to change malignantly, so all liver cysts need to be regularly examined and observed, and surgical treatment is performed if necessary.
5. Liver cyst refers to the local tissue of the liver that is cystic and has little impact on human health. It has no obvious symptoms when the size is small. It is often found during abdominal ultrasound examination or abdominal surgery and does not require special treatment.
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Will liver cyst worsen into lung cancer? Do I need treatment to avoid future problems? In fact, it is not terrible.
The possibility of liver cysts being cancerous is not high, but prevention must also be strengthened. The harm of liver cysts is quite great, which can easily lead to symptoms of rapid growth, secondary infection or bleeding. Therefore, it is very important to strengthen care and prevention in life to avoid causing greater harm.
. When you are confirmed to have liver cysts, you should do a regular review. As long as there is no change in the liver cyst, you generally do not need treatment, but you must closely follow it up and pay attention to some symptoms of the body, such as whether there is nausea and vomiting, whether there is any pain in the liver area, etc. If all of them appear, you need to check and treat it in time.
2. Patients with liver cysts should eat lighter diets, eat more fruits and vegetables, eat more foods rich in protein, and be sure to consume low-fat foods, high fat, high cholesterol, foods, quit smoking and drinking, do not eat spicy, raw and cold stimulating foods, and reduce the total calories of the diet.
3. Generally speaking, liver cysts are not particularly harmful to people, but they need to be closely observed, regularly reviewed, and scientifically understand liver cysts. This disease should not be overly worried about the liver cysts. This will be detrimental to conditioning and health care.
4. Patients with liver cysts, like other patients with liver disease, should not be overworked. They should pay attention to the combination of work and rest in daily life. When certain symptomatic reactions occur, they should go to the hospital for examination in time and take regular treatment to avoid causing greater harm.
