All of us love our complete social and mental well-being and physical well-being is the main factor that helps in keeping our social and metal balance.
To keep ourselves healthy and fit,
we need to keep organs of our body fit and fine. There are thousands of organs together constructs our body and keeping them in good condition is our primary job. Liver is the largest solid organ of human body, which weighs around 3 pounds.
Liver plays important role in producing blood proteins, bile and cholesterol; maintaining balance of nutrients in our body; storing glycogen and also helps in eradication of harmful materials from our blood. Due to several reasons our liver can affected. Some reasons behind this are like drinking unsafe water, too much alcohol drinking, smoking, not taking adequate vitamins, minerals and protein, etc.
If the liver is not in a condition to execute the essential metabolic and synthetic jobs that keep the human body functioning, several diseases might affect us, our liver might start dysfunction, and we can face several types of problems like abnormal absorption of fats, blood sugar problems, digestive problems, immune disorders, and metabolism problems. Any problem in liver can also leads to the slow degradation of other organs of human body.
Dysfunction of liver causes several types of diseases like alcohol damage, cancer, cirrhosis, drug damage, fatty liver and most importantly hepatitis A, B, C and E. Pale stools, Dark urine, Jaundice, Excessive fatigue, etc are some symptoms of the above-mentioned diseases.
Cirrhosis is also a type of disease that affects human liver. In this, healthy liver tissues are replaced with scar tissues, which affect proper functioning of the liver. Scar tissues also block the proper flow of human blood through human liver, slow the processing of nutrients, drugs, hormones, and naturally produce toxins. The disease also slows the manufacturing of protein and other important substance made by the liver.
Few main causes behind cirrhosis are hepatitis C, fatty liver, chronic viral infections of the liver, blockage of the bile duct and alcohol abuse, etc. Symptoms of cirrhosis of the liver vary with the stage of illness. Loss of appetite, lack of energy, weight loss or sudden weight gain, yellowing of skin or the whites of eyes, swelling in the ankles, legs, and abdomen, etc are some symptoms of the dieses. In addition to the above-mentioned symptoms, doctors can recognize Cirrhosis of leaver through several methods like physical exam, biopsy, surgery and blood tests.
Cirrhosis of the Liver causes several problems in human body, which include Variceal bleeding, Confused thinking, Kidney failure, Diabetes, Changes in blood counts, and reduced oxygen in the blood. Cirrhosis of the liver cannot be cured but it can be stopped or the progress of the disease can be delayed. Depending upon cause of the disease, treatments are used.
