Does spider nevus necessarily mean liver disease?

The liver is one of the most important organs in the human body. Many people find it difficult to treat liver disease after developing it. Spider nevi should be a manifestation of skin disease in the human body. But at the same time, it should also be a symptom of a disease involving the liver. After spider nevi occur, people often worry that their liver may develop serious disease problems. Of course, this also requires examination, diagnosis and treatment. But does spider nevus necessarily mean liver disease?

In fact, many young people nowadays have rarely heard of things like spider nevi. Because of the comprehensive coverage of hepatitis B vaccine, the number of newborns infected with hepatitis B in our country has been greatly reduced. In fact, spider nevi are a typical manifestation of liver disease.

Surveys and studies have shown that 80% of spider nevus patients have liver tissue lesions, of which 30% have cirrhosis. If spider nevi grow on the hands, it is very likely that the patient may have very serious liver disease and the liver disease is continuing to worsen.

Because patients with liver disease have problems with their body's coagulation function, small bright red dots the size of needles or millet may appear on the surface of their skin. There are also many red blood vessels near these small dots, and the dilated capillaries are like the feet of a spider, so they are called spider nevi.

Spider nevi usually grow on the back of the patient's hand or on the neck where veins and other capillaries are concentrated. After pressing hard, the red dots will disappear, but after releasing the hand, blood can be seen flowing from the red dots to the peripheral capillaries. Spider nevi are generally ignored by people because they do not hurt or itch, but some people pay great attention to them because spider nevi are not easy to be found on the human body, unless they are found on people with liver disease.

Although a large number of studies have shown that spider nevi are closely related to impaired liver function, if spider nevi appear in adolescent girls or pregnant women due to the increase of estrogen in their bodies, it is considered a normal physiological phenomenon. If spider nevi appear in other people or under other circumstances, you must be careful and go to the hospital for a liver function test in time.

If there are a large number of spider nevi and they do not disappear for a long time, even if they appear intermittently, you must pay attention to it and go to the hospital for a liver function test, because the appearance, development, and disappearance of spider nevi are all related to liver diseases.

For hepatitis patients, spider nevi can be one of the important signs that liver disease develops into cirrhosis. If spider nevi continue to appear, you should consider whether you have cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis, liver cancer or other liver diseases.

If the spider nevi that you have had on your body have slowly expanded in recent times, you should pay close attention, especially to middle-aged and elderly people, because the growth and spread of spider nevi are closely related to the degree of development of liver disease. Some liver diseases will further deteriorate, and the physical manifestation is that the spider nevi become larger and larger.