What are the symptoms of alcoholic liver disease?

The occurrence of alcoholic liver disease can have adverse effects and harm to health, so it is necessary to promptly detect whether there are these symptoms and take timely treatment measures. Common symptoms include diarrhea, weight loss, bleeding, or loss of appetite, abdominal distension, etc.

1. Diarrhea: Diarrhea is quite common, and is mostly caused by intestinal wall edema, intestinal malabsorption, niacin deficiency and parasitic infection.

2. Weight loss: Weight loss is a common symptom of alcoholic liver disease. This symptom of alcoholic liver disease is mainly caused by loss of appetite, insufficient food intake, gastrointestinal digestion and absorption disorders, and reduced albumin synthesis in the body.

3. Bleeding: Bleeding due to decreased liver function affects the synthesis of prothrombin and other coagulation factors, and hypersplenism causes thrombocytopenia, so bleeding from the gums and nasal cavity, purple spots or bleeding spots on the skin and mucous membranes, or vomiting blood and black stools often occur. Women often have symptoms of alcoholic liver disease such as excessive menstruation.

4. Loss of appetite: Loss of appetite is the most common symptom of alcoholic liver disease, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting and other symptoms of alcoholic liver disease. It is mostly due to gastrointestinal congestion and gastrointestinal secretion and absorption disorders. In the late stage, ascites will form, gastrointestinal bleeding and liver failure will be more serious.

5. Abdominal distension: Abdominal distension is a common symptom of alcoholic liver disease, which may be caused by hypocalcemia, gastrointestinal flatulence, ascites and hepatosplenomegaly.

6. Fatigue: Fatigue is also one of the early symptoms of alcoholic liver disease. The degree of this alcoholic liver disease symptom ranges from mild tiredness to severe fatigue, which is consistent with the degree of liver disease activity.

7. Abdominal pain: Abdominal pain caused by alcoholic liver disease symptoms includes pericarditis, progressive hepatocyte necrosis, perihepatitis, portal vein thrombosis and portal vein thrombosis.