What are the symptoms of ascites? Symptoms of hepatic ascites

There are many patients suffering from cirrhosis and ascites in life, especially after suffering from cirrhosis, they will be accompanied by symptoms of ascites. This is because cirrhosis is a relatively serious liver disease. When cirrhosis reaches the late stage, the virus in the patient's body will replicate faster, leading to liver damage. So what are the symptoms of ascites? Let’s take a look together.

Symptoms of liver ascites

1. The patient's facial organs are swollen, complexion changes, abdominal circumference increases, and there is ascites. Some patients also have symptoms of lower limb edema. When these symptoms appear, everyone should be vigilant and seek prompt diagnosis. The initial symptoms of ascites include varying degrees of gastrointestinal symptoms, such as decreased appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc.

2. How to identify the early symptoms of ascites. The patient's obvious physical manifestations are a bulge in the abdomen, like a frog belly, and symptoms such as abdominal distension and restlessness. The bloating worsens at night, keeping the patient awake all night.

3. The patient is in an abnormal state of consciousness, suddenly becomes excited and talkative, but his speech is incoherent, he is unable to perform numerical calculations, and may even suffer from hepatic coma. These are the key points of the symptoms of ascites.

4. Before the onset of the disease, the patient had an uncontrollable low fever accompanied by an increase in neutrophil count. On examination, the patient's serum sodium, potassium, and blood glucose levels were low and did not improve on their own.

5. In the early stages of hepatic ascites, the abdomen will slightly enlarge, and careless patients may think it is caused by weight gain. The difference between the early symptoms of obesity and ascites can be seen in the belly button. If it is ascites, the belly button will be protruding, while for obese people, the belly button will be sunken. At the same time, people who are obese have thicker fat layers in other parts of the body except the abdomen. However, in the early stages of ascites, only the abdomen is generally larger, while there are no obvious changes in other parts of the body.