Liver disease: doctors named three little-known signs of a dangerous condition

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Today, approximately seven percent of the world's population suffer from liver fibrosis and do not know it because they have no symptoms of the disease. Those signs that can indicate a dangerous condition are often so non-specific that a person simply ignores them. According to doctors, there are only a few such symptoms.

In particular, problems with the liver can be indicated by constantly elevated body temperature, attacks of chills and nausea. Early signs of the disease also include loss of appetite and weight.

In fact, the initial stages are usually accompanied by flu symptoms, including discomfort in the gastrointestinal tract. Sometimes fibrosis becomes a precursor to cirrhosis, but it takes several years to detect the disease because the patient ignores the symptoms. In the later stages, the condition causes swelling of the legs and abdomen, as well as jaundice.

The least known signs of liver disease include:

• fever and tremors;

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• loss of libido;
• weight jumps.

The most frequent symptoms are fatigue and exhaustion. “Researchers suggest that the main cause of chronic fatigue associated with liver disease may be caused by changes in brain chemistry and hormone levels as a result of impaired liver function. In particular, altered levels of corticotropins, serotonin, and norepinephrine can lead to this,” the researchers explained. Experts also noted that symptoms related to fatigue can be exacerbated by an increase in the blood of toxic byproducts that a damaged liver can no longer remove from the body.