Liver
Is the largest organ of the human body size, where the weight of the liver to about a kilo and 200 grams, and the liver is located in the right front of the bottom of the rib cage, and one of the most important functions of the liver to remove the toxicity of foods and medicines and analysis of complex compounds, and extract the juice necessary to digest fat and food that are in the intestines, Proteins are needed to build and grow the body, as well as store glucose, iron, mineral salts and vitamins, but when the liver fails to perform its functions have been infected with the virus, and there are symptoms of infection with the liver virus.
Common liver disease symptoms
- Feel tired, tired and loss of appetite leading to weight loss involuntarily.
- The patient notices that the urine color has changed to dark color and has become dark.
- When the liver is inflamed, it will change in volume and swelling, leading to swelling of the abdomen and feeling of pain when the hand is placed on it. It is normal for the patient to feel pain in the right side of the abdomen.
- The patient appears yellowish in the color of the eyes which is white eyes have yellow.
- The person suffers from a high temperature that leads to the bronchitis and yellowing of the body.
- The patient complains of itching in the hands, and in males the size of their breasts increases.
There are several types of viruses can infect the liver and vary, and have symptoms of their own, including:
Symptoms of hepatitis A virus
The patient suffers from the above symptoms, but the most prominent symptoms are diarrhea, which is predominantly gray, and jaundice, and the incidence of these symptoms from two weeks to thirty days, and developed a vaccine for the virus with a period of treatment to almost a month.
Symptoms of hepatitis B virus
Is almost similar to the symptoms of hepatitis A virus, but it is different. It causes inflammation of the joints and pain in the lower back. The treatment period ranges from healing to the symptoms of hepatitis B virus to almost a year. This type usually develops and causes liver damage, which causes damage. And immediate death.
Symptoms of hepatitis C virus
It is one of the most dangerous types of liver viruses, combining the symptoms of virus A, B, and develop these symptoms and continue for more than a year, and the most famous symptoms: accumulation of fluid in the abdomen, and suffer from stomach pain, as well as gray feces and joint pain, Life, because the way he moved to the body was by blood unlike the former two.