Young age, but the liver has hardened! Sigh: it has nothing to do with tobacco and alcohol. This may be the "root cause"

It must have been heard by many people in life. When it comes to liver related diseases, people always blame alcohol for the original sin.

Yes, alcohol is indeed a major factor in the injury of liver and induced alcoholic liver disease, but it is not the only reason. There are many factors promoting chronic liver disease and cirrhosis!

What is cirrhosis?

Cirrhosis is understood in the most popular words, that is, the original flexible, soft liver gradually becomes "hard".

According to the clinical data, cirrhosis is not an independent disease in the liver, it belongs to chronic and progressive liver disease, which is caused by one or more primary liver diseases repeatedly, resulting in diffuse liver damage!

When the patients were examined pathologically, they could find the extensive necrosis of liver cells. Because of the regeneration ability of liver, the remaining healthy liver cells would be nodular regeneration, connective tissue further proliferated and fibrous septum formed, which eventually resulted in the destruction of the structure of liver lobule and the formation of pseudolobule.

The liver is deformed and hardened, and develops to cirrhosis!

This culprit is more likely to cause cirrhosis than alcohol!

As far as the patients with cirrhosis in China are concerned, the main risk factors that cause the disease are not alcohol, but hepatitis B!

Hepatitis B is one of the main factors of viral hepatitis, which is because the patients are infected with hepatitis B virus. The virus can be transmitted through three channels, including sexual behavior, blood, mother and baby.

Although China has launched hepatitis B vaccine and is free of charge, hepatitis B still does not disappear in China. There are still nearly 70million people with hepatitis B virus carriers in China, of which 20million have been developed into chronic hepatitis B.

Chronic hepatitis B is the most complex of viral hepatitis, it has no radical cure except for vaccines, which also means that patients need to carry the virus for a long time, even for life.

Hepatitis B virus has a strong hepatophilic property, the gene of the virus can be integrated with the related genes in the liver nucleus, and constantly damage the healthy liver cells of the patients.

If the patient is in the active stage of virus and has developed into chronic hepatitis B, but they do not actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment, then hepatitis B virus will continue to develop in the liver, and more liver cells with virus will be produced in the liver, which will eventually lead to the damage and death of healthy liver cells.

After the death of liver cells, hepatitis B virus will be released from the original cells, and destroy other healthy liver cells again. So repeatedly, liver cirrhosis will occur!

In China, most of the patients with cirrhosis are from chronic hepatitis B.

This is not the most terrible part of hepatitis B, it is also a major factor in promoting liver cancer.

In China, more than 80% of all patients with liver cancer have developed from chronic hepatitis B to liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, which eventually led to liver cancer!

Generally speaking, cirrhosis is a disease developed from chronic liver disease.

Therefore, we must not look down on chronic hepatitis B, actively cooperate with doctors for treatment, regular review and observation of physical recovery is necessary.

In addition, other patients with chronic viral hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease need to be vigilant. If they do not actively treat, they may develop into cirrhosis.