How the prevalence of hepatitis B liver protection?
Posted on November 4th, 2009 in liver | No Comments »
China is a big country, but also a hepatitis B power. For hepatitis B patients, disease, torture is not only confined to the physical, social discrimination but also gives them the physical and psychological harm.
They suffer in silence without going through standard treatment, many patients with advanced cirrhosis of the liver into the period of serious complications, and even the development of liver cancer, resulting in early death. In this regard, a press interview with liver disease in Tianjin Institute of Luweisuozhang, asked her to introduce the latest developments related to hepatitis treatment, prevention, liver cirrhosis with severe complications, such as relevant knowledge.
Reporter: Luyuan Zhang, I heard that you are great deal of research on alcoholic liver disease, can tell us about this situation?
Lu Wei: Alcoholic liver is due to the long-term heavy drinking (alcohol)-induced liver injury in diseases. Over the past decade, with the improvement of living standards and social circle expands, the world’s consumption of alcohol soared, due to drinking alcohol, leading to the incidence of liver also showed a rising trend, has become the invisible killer can not be ignored.
Heavy drinking can cause fatty liver, and even alcoholic liver damage. Alcoholic liver will appear a series of symptoms and signs. Mild alcoholic liver occur, such as bloating, fatigue, liver discomfort, anorexia and other common symptoms. In addition to the above-mentioned symptoms of alcohol and adding to the liver, some patients with fever, leukocytosis (mainly an increase in neutrophils), resembles a bacterial infection and other symptoms, and jaundice, hepatomegaly and tenderness, a small number of spleen enlargement, looking gloomy, ascites, edema, spider angioma and a series of symptoms. Mild fatty liver more asymptomatic, moderate and severe fatty liver can present the above-mentioned symptoms, the small number of patients have low-grade fever, diarrhea, limb numbness, tremor, sexual dysfunction and so on. Alcoholic cirrhosis is a more serious alcohol liver disease. If the above symptoms, should go to hospital for examination, so as not to delay treatment.
Alcohol prevention and treatment of alcoholic liver the most effective measures. The treatment of alcohol liver disease, including abstinence, improved nutrition, treatment of liver injury, prevention and treatment in combination with other liver disease, halting or reversing the progress of liver fibrosis and promote liver regeneration, reduce complications and improve quality of life, end-stage liver disease will have to for liver transplantation.
Recently, Tianjin Institute of liver disease research “glucose-based transferrin clinical diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease,” the subject has passed the expert review, Tianjin Public Health Bureau, to leading domestic level.
Reporter: Tianjin Institute for treatment of hepatitis B liver disease what are the characteristics do?
Lu Wei: hepatitis, cirrhosis and liver cancer among there was not only the disease occurrence and development of a causal relationship, but also three completely different diseases. Got hepatitis B do not panic, the vast majority can be treated, and to cirrhosis, liver cancer and only a few. Moreover, liver transplantation is feasible, survival up to 5-30 years. As long as the face of science, attitude adjustment, active treatment, prevent fatigue, periodic inspection, hepatitis B is completely controlled.
Tianjin Institute of Liver Disease has always been adhering to the patient first, quality first, the purpose of, and adhere to the road of integrating Chinese and Western medicine in order to combine Chinese and Western medicine treatment of chronic hepatitis B as a feature, after the efforts of several generations, the Institute absorption, comparison, conclusion, summarizes the ancient and modern Chinese medicine treatment of liver disease and effective prescriptions, developed a series of eight kinds of liver disease treatment drugs, in clinical use has been well received. Such as hepatitis B-1 can effectively inhibit liver fibrosis, reducing Ⅲ, Ⅳ collagen synthesis, is an effective drug prevention and treatment of liver cirrhosis. Hepatitis granules, hepatitis B No. 3, An beads and so on in different aspects of the liver with a JiangMei, back yellow, and hepatoprotective effects.
We developed a “slow liver capsule” as a new drug for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B in 2000 by the State Drug Administration issued a new drug certificate and production approval, and the successful transfer of pharmaceutical companies have been formally put into operation to produce good economic and social benefits.
Reporter: Are you vomiting blood of patients with liver cirrhosis with portal hypertension have any good methods?
Lu Wei: here I would like to remind patients with chronic liver disease should be routine gastroscopy. Cirrhotic portal hypertension in patients with esophageal and gastric mucosa can be combined lesions, severe esophageal varices can occur, easily lead to variceal bleeding, life-threatening. We esophageal varicose vein ligation and endoscopic sclerotherapy for varicose veins of the gastric treatment with injection of tissue glue is completely treatable and prevent upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and thus improve the patient’s quality of life.