Symptoms and treatment of fatty liver disease

Fatty liver disease is a disease that can threaten human life with unpredictable complications. So to recognize the symptoms of this disease and how to treat it like?
In normal people, the amount of fat in the liver is very low, accounting for only 2-4% of the weight of the liver, including phospholipids, cholesterol, trigyceride, fatty acids.

The symptoms of fatty liver disease

The patient may feel tired, weak activity becomes, body discomfort and nausea. When the examination may show swelling of the liver than normal. In some cases, patients may have jaundice.


The diagnosis of fatty liver

Fatty liver can not cause any significant symptoms, the disease is often only detected when the patient accidentally liver ultrasound for a reason.

It can be diagnosed by ultrasound or MRI, but the method is the most accurate results of the liver biopsy. The doctor will puncture a small needle directly into the liver of patients, then carefully studied liver cells under the microscope. This method is said to be relatively safe and does not cause too much pain to the patient, just a little local anesthetic injection under the skin of patients.

How to treat fatty liver disease

The method provides the most effective in the treatment of fatty liver disease patients required treatment for alcoholism. The fatty liver are to stop drinking immediately knew he was sick, when there were no liver fibrosis and bottles.

Some types of diabetes medications such as Actos, Avandia or lowering blood cholesterol levels (such as lovastatin) may help the body reduce the development of fatty liver disease.

People with fatty liver disease should focus on reduction of body weight if overweight or obese format.

Prevention of fatty liver disease

Please choose a healthy lifestyle, which can help eliminate excess weight or obesity - one of the main causes of fatty liver disease. Persisting the regime lose weight slowly and sustainably.

  Should try to balance diet sensibly, eat less saturated fat and increase fiber content in the diet.

Exercise habits will help in the treatment of fatty liver disease. Please exercise at least 4 times / week. Can perform simple exercises like walking, swimming, gardening to practice the favorite sport (practice mode to suit each person's health status). Absolute alcohol abstinence.

If you are a fatty liver, remember that not so pessimistic, but in life. The disease can completely reverse the situation by maintaining a reasonable diet, exercise and sport and avoid alcohol to help the body get healthy and reverse the disease.