Liver Disease Symptoms
August 16th, 2010 | 
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Before you find out more about liver disease symptoms, of course we need to know what is included in liver diseases.
There are many types of liver disease, but some of the most important are:
• viral hepatitis (Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E and G)
• cirrhosis (hardening of the liver)
• liver cancer
• liver disorders caused by alcohol (fatty liver)
• liver disorders in children are:
- Biliary atresia, a condition where the bile duct extending from the liver to the small intestine is too small cross section or none at all
- Alpha 1 – antitrypsin deficiency, a genetic liver disease in children who may be headed into hepatitis and liver cirrhosis
- Alagille’s syndrome, a condition where the bile duct narrowing and worsening, especially in the first year of life
- Galactosemia, a hereditary disease where the body can not tolerate certain sugars in milk. These sugars can expand, causing serious damage to the liver and other organs of the body
- hemorrhagic telangiectasia, a condition in which blood vessels are thin, allowing easy and frequent bleeding from the skin and digestive tract
- Neonatal hepatitis is hepatitis in newborns that occurred in the first few months of birth
- Reye’s syndrome, a condition that causes the spread of fat in the liver. In some cases this condition is associated with aspirin use, particularly those related to chickenpox, influenza or other diseases with fever
- Tyrosinemia, a disorder that causes serious problems with the liver metabolism
- Wilson’s disease, an inherited condition (heredity) that cause the spread of the mineral copper in the liver
Above liver disorders, including mild or severe disease, and the most severe and deadly is a liver cancer. But all of these diseases have the same liver disease symptoms, such as:
- Marked by loss of appetite due to nausea and vomiting. This resulted in a drastic weight loss in short periods of time
- Pain in the upper right abdomen
- Eye, skin and nails yellow (jaundice), indicating a disturbed liver function
- The body becomes sluggish and tired constantly, often arising from a high fever
- Brown urine, such as tea
If you experience liver disease symptoms above, see your doctor, the doctor will soon tell you to do some laboratory examinations to ensure the type of illness. And then doctor will tell you the best liver cancer treatments for you.
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