How to treat low-grade fatty liver

Low-grade fatty liver is also a relatively mild type of fatty liver, which only requires good treatment and conditioning. Generally, the condition can get better and be completely cured. During the treatment process, you must actively cooperate with the doctor's opinions and suggestions, develop good eating habits, exercise moderately, quit smoking and drinking, get enough rest, etc. All of these help to improve the condition.

1. Treatment

The treatment of mild fatty liver requires the use of medications while correcting the individual causes of fatty liver and adjusting lifestyle and diet. A comprehensive approach should be used to treat mild fatty liver.

1. General treatment

Including: develop correct eating habits, get rid of bad living habits, and do more aerobic exercise;

2. Medication

For those with blood sugar disorders, improve insulin resistance and control blood sugar; for those with blood lipid metabolism disorders, use lipid-lowering drugs to adjust blood lipids; Western medicine is mainly used, and the side effect is that it can easily cause drug-induced liver damage.

3. Electrophysiological therapy

Therapeutic devices are used to promote fat transport in the liver, while physical therapy only treats the symptoms and does not regulate the disease.

4. Exercise therapy

It is greatly affected by individual physique and environment, and lacks planning continuity. It can play an auxiliary improvement role.

5. Food therapy

Lack of guidance and persistence.

6. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

Mild fatty liver is a simple fatty liver. In order to avoid treatment damage, it is recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine treatment and conditioning, which focuses on correcting lifestyle habits and adjusting dietary structure.

2. Prevention

1. Eat a healthy diet

Pay more attention to your diet: Controlling high-energy, high-sugar, and high-fat diet can effectively prevent fatty liver. Appropriately reduce food intake, especially reduce the intake of fat and sugar, and eat more soy products and foods containing B vitamins. Adjust the dietary structure and advocate a high-protein, high-vitamin, low-sugar and low-fat diet. Effectively prevent the occurrence of fatty liver through diet.

2. Exercise

Keep exercising every day and choose appropriate sports according to your physical condition. Start with a small amount of exercise, and gradually increase the amount of exercise to the appropriate level. Exercise can reduce liver damage and improve liver function, which is beneficial to the normal performance of various liver functions and normal fat metabolism.

3. Avoid drinking alcohol

People who drink excessively should resolutely quit drinking to avoid further damage to the liver caused by alcohol.

Clinical manifestations

1. Loss of appetite, fatigue, discomfort or pain in the liver area

It is a common symptom in patients with liver disease. If patients experience loss of appetite, fatigue, aversion to oil, abdominal distension, dull pain in the liver area, etc., and excluding colds, acute gastritis and other liver diseases, the possibility of fatty liver should be suspected.

2. Nausea and vomiting

If fatty liver is accompanied by liver damage, it may be accompanied by gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, aversion to oil, and upper abdominal distension.

3. Enlarged liver

About 90% of patients with fatty liver have a palpable liver, and 30% have mild liver enlargement. If the liver fat storage accounts for more than 40% of the liver weight, there may be obvious liver enlargement, but it is painless. Although the liver is enlarged, its shape remains normal. If the liver is normal in texture or feels slightly soft when examined, and has a smooth surface and is not tender, the possibility of fatty liver should be considered. However, because fatty liver is soft in texture, it is often difficult to palpate under the abdominal wall even though it is enlarged.

4. Endocrine disorders

The liver is the site where many endocrine hormones are metabolized and inactivated. When fatty liver occurs, male patients may have breast development, testicular atrophy, and impotence, while female patients may have menorrhagia, amenorrhea, and weight loss or gain.