In clinical practice, early cirrhosis may be difficult to detect. However, once changes in liver function, such as elevated transaminases and jaundice appear, it is often not early cirrhosis and must be taken seriously. Among the many liver diseases, cirrhosis is second only to liver cancer. If there is no timely treatment, it will bring a lot of adverse reactions or complications to the patient, and pose a threat to the patient's life safety.

Can cirrhosis be cured?

It used to be thought that cirrhosis is irreversible once it occurs, but now early cirrhosis can be reversed, and special medications can lead to the reversal of liver fibrosis. Cirrhosis is clinically categorized into compensated and decompensated stages.

The compensated stage is when the body is able to fulfill its normal needs even though it has cirrhosis. Loss-of-compensation stage is the advanced stage in the usual sense, which can no longer meet the normal physiological needs of the human body, and the patient will have jaundice, ascites, loss of various nutrients, hypoproteinemia, anemia and other symptoms, and the possibility of healing is relatively low.

What are the treatments for cirrhosis?

The first aspect is the treatment of primary lesions to see what causes them. For example, if the hepatitis B virus is caused by anti-viral treatment, and if hepatitis C is caused by anti-hepatitis C treatment. If complications occur, the corresponding treatment should be carried out, including the treatment of esophageal varices, hypersplenism, ascites.

The other is diet, cirrhosis diet depends on which period of cirrhosis belongs to, whether it is a period of loss of compensation or compensation. When cirrhosis is in the compensatory phase, the diet does not need special attention, less alcohol, pay attention to a healthy diet can be. When it comes to the decompensated stage, because the liver function has been very poor, the patient should be low-fat, high-protein, low-salt diet.

There is hope that cirrhosis can be reversed in its early stages, but if there is no timely intervention, cirrhosis may further develop into liver cancer, which will cause serious and irreversible damage to the body, and the patient's quality of life will be greatly reduced.