Where does liver disease cause pain?

Currently, the rate of patients with liver disease and pain is increasing, especially hepatitis B virus infection. Therefore, early recognition of symptoms related to liver disease will help patients detect early and treat promptly. time.

The liver is the largest organ and weighs between 1.2 and 1.5 kg. The liver plays many important roles with more than 500 functions, the most notable of which is the function of regulating bile for the process of digesting food, eliminating toxins from the body and storing glucose for the body. Generate energy when needed.
Modern life makes people suffer from many bad influences from the environment, an unscientific diet makes the liver more susceptible to disease and damage. Therefore, the proportion of people suffering from liver diseases such as hepatitis B, cirrhosis, and liver cancer is increasing gradually and tends to be younger. Besides, an alarming situation is that most people do not have basic knowledge as well as recognize the initial symptoms and how to prevent these diseases.
Therefore, to protect the health of themselves and their families, patients need to pay attention to their health, take preventive measures, recognize the signs of liver pain as soon as possible, to avoid the disease spreading. to the chronic stage.

One of the effective prevention measures is to answer the question where the patient has liver pain? Accordingly, each liver-related disease will have different typical symptoms as follows:
2.1. Hepatitis B The disease is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and progresses through two stages, acute hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis B.
Acute hepatitis B occurs after 6 months of infection with hepatitis B virus, in cases where the patient has a good immune system, the disease can be cured without treatment; Chronic hepatitis B if not treated effectively can lead to dangerous complications such as cirrhosis, liver cancer... Symptoms in patients with hepatitis B are often unclear, so patients often difficult to detect. One of the typical symptoms is right upper quadrant pain in hepatitis B patients, but a definitive diagnosis must be made by a doctor because some other liver diseases also cause the above symptoms such as liver abscess, hepatitis C , liver cancer...
Some other symptoms that may be encountered in hepatitis B patients are as follows:
Anorexia, fatigue, loss of appetite; Have symptoms of joint pain; Yellow or dark yellow urine; Frequent nausea and vomiting; Flatulence, bloating, abdominal fullness; Digestive disorders, strange color stools such as dark or blue-gray; Jaundice, yellow eyes... 2.2. Liver cancer Liver cancer is a dangerous liver disease and has a high mortality rate, so detecting the disease at an early stage plays a very important role in the effectiveness of treatment. Some symptoms in people with liver cancer are as follows:
In the early stages of the disease, patients often have digestive disorders such as bloating, indigestion, eating less, loss of appetite, difficulty in defecation, fatigue in the body and in some cases the patient feels pain in the right lower quadrant ... In the later stages, the patient has symptoms of pain in many areas of the liver, fullness in the upper abdomen, ascites, loss of appetite, nausea. and vomiting, weight loss, diarrhea, fever, hepatomegaly, yellowing of the skin and eyes...

2.3. Alcoholic hepatitis A disease caused by excessive alcohol consumption leading to liver damage. Patients with alcoholic hepatitis have symptoms of anorexia, bloating, indigestion, fatigue and may have fever, nausea and vomiting...
2.4. Fatty liver Disease occurs due to the accumulation of too much fat in the liver and often occurs in overweight and obese patients, patients with a high cholesterol diet or diabetes ... Symptoms of fatty liver disease the disease is usually non-specific and not obvious, the patient may have fatigue, pain in the right lower quadrant ...
2.5. Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome Pathology is one of the rare complications of pelvic inflammatory disease, causing inflammation of the liver capsule, inflammation of the tissues surrounding the liver and can affect the lining of the stomach. The disease has a higher prevalence in women than in men.
Patients with Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome have symptoms of severe right upper quadrant pain, the pain occurs suddenly and increases when taking a deep breath, laughing, coughing, sneezing or changing positions; pain can spread to the right arm, shoulder and cause other symptoms such as fever, chills with night sweats, nausea and vomiting, headache...
2.6. Liver abscess, liver cyst Liver abscess is a condition in which the liver forms a pus-filled cavity due to a bacterial or parasitic infection. Patients will present with abdominal fullness accompanied by fever or chills.
Liver cyst is a condition in which the liver forms a reservoir of fluid. The pathology forms benign tumors, but in the case of cystic tumors that are too large, the patient will have symptoms of fullness in the upper abdomen. In the case of a ruptured cyst, the patient will have sudden and severe pain in the upper right abdomen and spread to the shoulder.
2.7. Liver pain due to trauma The liver can be painful after injuries or accidents or falls. In this case, the patient may have pain and tenderness in the right abdomen and spread to the shoulder.

In case the patient notices that the pain occurs after drinking a lot of alcohol and the pain occurs transiently or is not accompanied by any other symptoms, the patient should pay attention to monitor the health status as well as change the situation. Change some habits to help reduce pressure on the liver as follows:
Drink enough water every day (about 1.5 - 2 liters per day); Limit eating foods high in fat, processed foods and foods containing fructose; Sit up straight; Move and exercise 30-60 minutes a day and control a reasonable weight; Limiting alcohol intake. In case of suspected pain related to liver diseases, the patient should not arbitrarily use any drugs, because most of the drugs are metabolized in the liver. For example, Paracetamol (or Acetaminophen) is metabolized by the liver when taken in appropriate doses. Acetaminophen when entering the body will be converted into a toxic substance for the liver, so in the case of liver damage due to diseases, the use of the drug without a doctor's prescription will aggravate the condition and the risk of disease. liver damage increases. Therefore, when the pain is suspected to be caused by liver disease, the patient needs to go to medical facilities for examination, diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible. Early detection and treatment will lead to better treatment effectiveness.