Liver is the largest internal solid organs and one of the most important organs in human body. Liver functions in changing digested foods into nutrients or biomolecules for metabolism and contribute to the entire body. Liver is the storage for fat-soluble vitamin, minerals, and exceeding glucose from carbohydrate, converting to glycogen, for body’s critical needs. Moreover, liver regulates chemical levels in blood and excretes the product called Bile and removes toxins from blood. Bile will be stored at gallbladder functioning in digesting fats and foods in guts, small intestine.
Diseases in Liver
- Fatty liver disease is caused by build-up of fats. The beginning stage may cause no harms, but it can cause liver damage gradually leading to cirrhosis if fatty liver condition has not been treated accurately. Causes of fatty liver disease are consuming fats, sugar, and carbohydrate exceeding required amounts, so these biomolecules are not used up resulting in liver converting and storing them.
- Cirrhosis resulted from chronic alcoholism, Hepatitis B and C, and fatty liver disease increases liver cancer risks.
- Liver cancer resulted from cirrhosis in stage I may not indicate signs or symptoms which is difficult to detect. The symptoms and signs most often appear when liver cancer is developed into severe stages, for example, right upper quadrant pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, and jaundice. Therefore, to prevent severe stages of liver cancer is to often get medical checkups or examinations.
Liver diseases symptoms
- Jaundice
- Fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite
- Abdominal cramps
- Inadequate body’s immune system
How to maintain healthy liver
- Have proper diet.
- Prevent high-fat diet.
- Prevent alcohol consumption and smoking.
- Enough sleep
- Frequently exercises.
- Prevent unnecessary medicines and herbal medicines consumption.
- Vaccinate Hepatitis A and B vaccines.
- Annually medical checkups to examine liver functions.
To detect and notice the abnormality of liver is difficult since liver diseases in beginning stage do not indicate signs or symptoms until they are developed into severe stages. Therefore, annually medical checkup resolves this condition because liver functions and conditions will be examined to prevent any unexpected severe diseases and provide early medication and treatments for early detection. V Precision provides liver medical examination program by using Fibro Scan. Fibro Scan functions in detecting liver fibrosis and amount of fat without inflicting damages on patients. Once any abnormalities are detected, these diseases could be treated beforehand to prevent fetal complications. Please do not disregard and prolong any symptoms and diseases to the severe stages for belated treatments and medications.
