12 Signs of Liver disease
Liver disease is a
condition which is affecting over 25% of people worldwide and this number is
growing at a rapid rate. Most people believe that liver disease comes only from
drinking too much alcohol.
1. Eating too many sweetened,
sugary or processed foods and drinks.
2.
Consuming
too many Omega-6 vegetable oils and fast foods.
3. Using painkillers too often like acetaminophen or ibuprofen.
4. Viruses can cause hepatitis and damage in the liver.
5. Having too much elemental iron in the body.
6. Environmental toxins like pesticides,
plastic, petroleum etc.
If
you would like to find out if there are problems with your liver, watch this
video until the end as we will also be exploring some natural home treatments
to clean the liver and prevent the damage from getting worse.
1. Pale stools. The first symptom of
liver problem is pale stools. If you have fatty
liver or liver disease bile stops flowing through the
bile ducts and hence the stool becomes pale or clay colored. It may
float on the toilet water.
2. Poor night vision.
Indicates Retinol/vit A deficiency. Improper fat digestion prevents absorption
of Vit A which helps the rod cells in the retina to
adapt to the different levels of light. Congested gall
bladder can also cause dried out, sore, irritated and gritty eyes.
3. Swollen right foot. When the blood is not
flowing normally through your liver, it becomes swollen and put pressure on the
portal vein. This causes water to accumulate in
the legs or feet. When you press your finger into the
swollen area, it may leave an indentation.
4. White eyelid growths.
White or yellowish growth around your eyelids is
a tell tale sign of liver disease. These are small pockets of cholesterol deposits that build up under the skin,
because the liver is not breaking down the cholesterol properly.
5. Right sided pressure.
Feeling of pain/pressure on the right side of your rib
cage, especially after you eat.
Bile become sludge and clogs the bile duct which
causes the pain. This can also put pressure on the phrenic nerve and causes
pain around the right shoulder.
6. Purple /red spots. When your liver is
congested, inflamed or damaged, it produces less proteins that are needed for
normal blood clotting. You can bruise easily and red/purple bumps which appear as rashes on the skin.
Usually seen in the lower limbs or arms. Its caused by the poor blood
circulation triggered by liver disease/ diabetes.
7. Cracked heels. Your body uses Vit B3 (Niacin) to keep your skin cells strong,smooth
and moisterised to prevent it from becoming damaged. If you have liver disease,
your body uses up its Vit B3 stores to help repair the damage. This leaves less
of nutrient available for other jobs causing the skin on the soles of your feet
and heels to start cracking. This can be overcome by loading Vit B3 and fixing
the root cause of the problem, fatty liver disease.
8. Itchy hand/feet. Constant urge to
scratch the palms of your hands and soles of your feet.
This condition is caused by the build-up of bile acids
under the skin because the liver
is not filtering them out properly and this causes histamines to build up in
the blood causing itching.
9. White/clubbed nails. If your fingers turn
white losing their pink colour, or they become rounded, clubbed or bulbous
appearance. This indicates there’s some serious liver damage or other
underlying health condition which is preventing oxygen from reaching the nail matrix.
10. Dark urine. Your liver has the job
of breaking down old red blood cells which contain that yellowish pigment
called bilirubin. If your liver or the gladder becomes damaged, this pigments begins to build up inside the
body and then it can be flushed through the urine causing your urine to have a very strong dark, orange, amber, brown or
cola colour because your liver isn’t breaking down the pigment normally.
This can also be caused by certain medication that weakens your liver like antibiotics, sleeping pills or birth control pills.
11. Yellow skin. When your liver is not
working properly and filtering this bilirubin from the blood, the pigment can
also start to change the colour of your skin (Jaundice). It indicates some
serious damages to the liver like hepatitis, cirrhosis,
some drug or medication poisoning.
12. Spider veins. It look like small red dots with spider like extensions of blood vessels
that appear on the skin. These blood vessels are damaged because your
liver is not doing its job in filtering out all excess
oestrogen. High oestrogen weakens the blood vessels and the veins
causing them dilate and they become visible on the skin.
Investigation: Ultrasound scan and liver function tests.
Liver is the one of
the organs in the body that can completely heal and regenerate.
1. Clean up your diet by cutting back on sugary, starchy and maida based foods like bread, biscuits,
sweets, ketchup, pancakes, pasta, soda
drinks etc. A fatty or damaged
liver is sensitive to alcohol and fruit juices.
2. Eat lots of bitter, sulphur rich foods like leafy greens, radish, broccoli, garlic, kale, cabbage,
sprouts, mushrooms, foods high in sulfer helps to strip away fat from
your liver by boosting Glutathione levels and
helping to detoxify poisons .
3. Drink one cup of organic black
coffee brewed at home with a little turmeric in
it. The polyphenols in the coffee and phytonutrients in the turmeric reduce
scar tissue formation in the liver and they also help to repair the damage
caused by alcohol, drugs or excess fruit juice. Drink at
least 1 litre of fresh water to thin out the blood, help the liver to produce
bile and breakdown any fatty deposits. You can also add
lime juice in this to improve the filtration of toxins in the liver.
4.
Liver
cleansing spices: Ginger, cinnamon, turmeric, അടയ്ക്കാമണിയൻ (Indian globe thisle), green tea and
cloves.
5. Eat all your food (calories) in a 6-10 hour
window, allow 14-16 hours to
fast each day. It will help to improve the health of your liver by lowering
inflammation and increasing insulin like growth factor,
a hormone that prevents fat from accumulating in the liver. Fasting also
stimulates autophagy where your liver recycles
old damaged cells and proteins to regenerate new healthy liver cells.
6. Stop eating all the inflammatory seed oils corn,
cotton seed, canola, soya oil, margarine etc.
7. Start eating anti-inflammatory fats like virgin coconut oil in your own home cooked recipes.
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