What are the early symptoms of ascites?

Ascites is a relatively serious liver disease, which is often caused by the transformation of chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis is a disease that is difficult to cure, has a long course and is prone to relapse. As the disease progresses, chronic hepatitis may slowly turn into cirrhosis and then ascites. The symptoms may affect the whole body. So what are the early symptoms of ascites?

Early symptoms of hepatic ascites include:

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.

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. Systemic symptoms: mainly fatigue, easy tiredness, and physical loss. A small number of patients may experience facial pigmentation.

6. The face is thin and dark, and the skin on the face and around the eyes is darker than before the illness. This is due to decreased liver function, which leads to increased melanin production.

7. Early symptoms of ascites may also include breast swelling and testicular shrinkage. The liver plays an important role in the balance of sex hormones in the human blood. Since the early symptoms of ascites are increased estrogen and decreased androgen, men may experience enlarged and tender breasts and testicular atrophy. For women, ascites causes sex hormone disorder, and the early symptoms of ascites can also cause menstrual disorders, breast shrinkage, and sparse pubic hair.