Most liver cancers are found in advanced stages
An oncologist once said that most of the patients with cancer within 30 years of age are liver cancer, and liver cancer also causes the most deaths. The main reason is that liver cancer is difficult to detect in the early stage, and when there are clinical symptoms (fatigue, nausea, abdominal distension, pain in the liver area, etc.), the condition has developed to the point of irreversibility.
Because the liver is the only organ in the body that does not have pain nerves, but it has a coating on its surface. The main function of this thin envelope is to protect the liver and separate the liver from other organs. It has no elasticity but contains a small amount of pain nerves. When the liver function is severely damaged and the liver begins to swell and stimulate the capsule, the capsule stimulates the pain sensory nerves due to the pulling, and then the person feels the feeling of hepatic pain. Therefore, there is a sentence to describe this phenomenon in the clinic, "The stomach is a horn, and the liver is a dumb".
"Young Capital" Cannibalize Liver Health
Why did Yao Ce died of liver cancer while his biological mother also suffered from hepatitis B, but nothing happened? This is because not all hepatitis B virus carriers will get liver cancer. Hepatitis B virus does not have any specific symptoms in the human body, and most of it is detected only after physical examination. The active state of hepatitis B virus in the body and the replication state of hepatitis B virus determine the degree of damage to the liver. If the hepatitis B virus has been actively replicating without being treated, the damage to the liver will aggravate silently and eventually become cancerous. For carriers of the virus with a small amount of virus and no replication, the degree of liver damage will be less.
Experts say that compared with patients with hepatitis B, what is more worrying now is that there are ordinary people who do not have viral hepatitis, such as staying up late, alcoholism, obesity, etc., in the eyes of young people, these are "young capital that can be consumed wantonly." "A little bit cannibalize the health of the liver. Studies have shown that people who drink 80 to 160 grams of alcohol a day have a 5 to 25 times higher incidence of alcoholic fatty liver than those who do not drink alcohol. Alcoholic liver to liver cancer only goes through two stages of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, and the later stages will develop faster.
Pregnant mothers with hepatitis B can also give birth to healthy babies
Carriers of hepatitis B virus should go to the hospital for a systematic examination before getting pregnant: liver function tests, hepatitis B DNA testing, liver B-ultrasound, and then choose the right time to get pregnant. At present, the mother-to-child blocking technology of hepatitis B has been quite mature, and the success rate is also very high. The operation is not as complicated as imagined. It is enough to inject hepatitis B immune globulin and hepatitis B vaccine when the baby is born, and then inject hepatitis B vaccine at 1 and 6 months. Data shows that after the above-mentioned combined immunization prevention, the newborn protection rate for pregnant women with three positives can reach more than 97%, and it can reach 100% for pregnant women with small three positives.
Even if you are unfortunately infected with hepatitis B virus, it will be a long time course from continuous damage to the liver to the formation of liver cirrhosis and even liver cancer. The middle may be 10 years or even longer. Therefore, patients with chronic hepatitis B should always pay attention to their physical condition, check liver function regularly, and grasp the status of liver function.
