Brother Wang is 40 years old this year. Everyone at this age is old and young. He is no exception. In order to make money, he goes out to work on the construction site every year, while his wife takes care of the elderly and children at home.
The days on the construction site were tough, but he made video calls every day, and when he saw the smiling faces of his family members, he felt that all his fatigue had vanished.
In the past few months, Brother Wang often feels that he has no energy and his shoulders hurt, but doing this kind of work is exhausting and often bumping Touch, so he didn’t take it seriously, and no one thought that this was a “warning signal” from the disease.
That day, he was welding steel bars as usual, but suddenly a sharp pain came from his abdomen. Before he knew it, he fainted. The workers realized that something was wrong and rushed him to the hospital.
After a number of examinations, the doctor gave a bad news. It turned out that a 3 cm tumor grew on the left side of Brother Wang’s liver, which can be confirmed to be liver cancer.
“Lunch turns poisonous”? Health Organization Statement: Eating one bite is equivalent to scraping the liver with a steel ball. Throw it away as soon as possible.
It turns out that Brother Wang is a northerner and loves pasta, so he buys a lot of noodles and cooks them at noon every day. eat.
However, the air flow in the dormitory of the construction site is not good. Some noodles have been left for a long time, and they will grow white hair and deteriorate, but he is reluctant to throw them away.
The doctor pointed out that even if the noodles are only mildly mildewed, a large amount of aflatoxin (AFT) is produced, which is very resistant to high temperature and has a certain Carcinogenicity will directly lead to liver cell damage, liver function decline, and liver cancer may occur in severe cases.
Extended: Why do we often say that liver disease is “silent” when it comes?
80% of liver cancer patients, like Brother Wang, did not go to the hospital for examination until they entered the middle and late stages of liver cancer, which has already delayed the best time for treatment.
The reason can be roughly divided into two points. First, the pain-sensing nerves of the liver are underdeveloped. In the early stage of the disease, the pain transmitted from the liver area is not obvious, and some people do not feel pain.
Secondly, the liver has a certain compensatory function. Even if some liver cells have been damaged, they can maintain normal operation. The symptoms are usually very weak, so it is difficult to attract people’s attention.
The doctor reminds that if you have frequent abdominal pain and diarrhea for a period of time; dry and itchy eyes, blurred vision; body bruising, abnormal bleeding from the nose and mouth; poor sleep quality and easy awakening in the middle of the night
strong>, or the liver is “calling for help”, don’t take it lightly.
How can I protect the liver and keep away from liver disease? Just do these 3 more things
●Do more aerobic exercise
It’s true that “life is in exercise”, Liver disease patients and middle-aged and elderly people may wish to do some low-intensity aerobic exercise in their daily life, such as slow walking, Baduanjin, walking in place, etc., in order to enhance immunity, ensure sufficient blood supply to the liver, and help damage the liver. Hepatocyte repair and regeneration.
Young people can choose high-intensity exercise such as rope skipping, swimming, and long-distance running according to their preferences. Exercise for about 30 minutes a day, which can improve liver cell activity, avoid liver function decline, and reduce the chance of liver disease.
But it should be noted that it is best not to exercise 30 minutes after meals or 1 hour before bedtime, otherwise it will affect digestion or cause difficulty falling asleep.
●Replenish liver nourishing elements in time
●Ensure adequate sleep
Staying up for a long time and lack of sleep will cause endocrine and hormone disorders in the human body, disturb the biological clock, and eventually lead to a decline in liver immunity. Not only that, after the liver is damaged, it will repair itself in the early morning hours, and going to bed late for a long time will affect the normal operation of the liver.
It is recommended that everyone go to bed before 10 pm, and the sleep time should be stable and sufficient, and at least 6 hours of sleep every day.
People who have insomnia or difficulty falling asleep should not play with their mobile phones before going to bed, try to calm their thoughts and breathing, and play some white noise or pure music to help sleep.
Tips:
During physical examination, we can pass the bilirubin, transaminaseValues are used to judge the health of the liver. Under normal circumstances, the value of bilirubin will be between 1.7umol/L and 17.1umol/L, and the value of transaminase will be between 0U/L and 40U/L.
If the results are all high after multiple tests, it may be a liver problem, and liver CT or liver B-ultrasound should be done for further judgment.