Friend of a lot of hepatitis, after appearing lack of power, appetite drops, disgusting wait for alimentary canal symptom, also can feel liver area ache sometimes, what reason is this?
Pain in the liver, it’s not pain in the liver, because there’s no pain nerve distribution in the liver, so a lot of people don’t feel pain when the liver tissue is damaged.
Then why can feel liver area again when a lot of hepatitis break out unwell, ache even?
The main reason is in the envelope of the liver.
The capsule of the liver has a very thin capsule, which contains rich distribution of painful nerve endings. As long as the capsule is stimulated, there will be a feeling of pain.
In clinical practice, when some patients need to do liver puncture examination, they need to use some anesthetic, just to anesthetize the capsule of the liver and reduce a lot of pain.
Additional, when hepatitis activity, no matter what cause of disease, want liver organization to be congestive because of inflammation, oedema only, can make liver volume increases, bring about liver envelope to stretch tight, appear tension rises, this can stimulate the pain nerve of liver envelope at this time, ache feeling was produced.
Similarly, if a doctor palpates an enlarged liver during a physical examination of a friend suffering from hepatitis, sometimes the patient will also feel pain, which is also a manifestation of irritation of the liver envelope.
So, appeared when hepatitis patient nauseous, vomiting, abdominal distension, appetite drops the symptom such as, when companion liver area aches at the same time, need affirming or exclude having hepatitis activity, so that discover in time exists liver injury, ability is treated actively, prevent the progress of liver disease.