After taking some medications, pain can occur in the right upper quadrant. The reason for this may be toxic hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver. In this case, the body itself can increase, and the biochemical analysis of blood changes greatly.
Causes of the disease
The disease can be a consequence of many factors, for example, drinking a lot of alcohol. It does not matter how much you use it, it still leads to liver damage. Acute attack of hepatitis can provoke and vegetable poisons, for example, poisons of mushrooms. Most often, people are experiencing drug toxic hepatitis, which is caused by a number of drugs, for example:
- Biseptol;
- Interferon;
- Paracetamol;
- Aspirin;
- Phenobarbital.
People who are forced to use a huge number of chemicals in their treatment need a special approach. For example, toxic hepatitis often occurs after chemotherapy.
Dangerous may be and, it would seem, completely innocuous means, for example, contraceptives. It is not uncommon for cases of the appearance of toxic hepatitis after taking oral contraceptives, which can cause not only violations of the liver, but also the development of jaundice.
Cases of the disease as a result of ingestion into the body and other chemicals, such as:
- phosphorus;
- pesticides;
- phenols;
- insecticide.
It should be noted that some substances are actively used in agriculture, so it is very important to purchase quality food.
Often people are interested in whether toxic hepatitis is transmitted. In fact, only hepatitis can be transmitted, but its toxic part can not be transient.
Symptoms of toxic hepatitis
Most often, the symptoms of toxic hepatitis manifest after 2-4 days after the penetration of toxic substances into the human body. At the same time, an acute attack of the disease is marked by a sudden and rapid manifestation. Chronic toxic hepatitis can be characterized by less vivid, but longer-lasting symptoms.
The disease has certain characteristic manifestations:
- pain, heaviness in the right hypochondrium;
- the liver is enlarged and slightly protruding;
- there is a sharp pain in palpation;
- elevated temperature;
- weakness, nausea and vomiting;
- small bleeding from the nose or gums;
- the changes in the skin and mucosa characteristic of jaundice may be manifested;
- there is itchy skin.
If the time does not deal with the elimination of the disease, it can go into a chronic, which threatens the development of cirrhosis of the liver .
Treatment of toxic hepatitis
Treatment of this disease is most often under the supervision of doctors. For the beginning try to eliminate the factors that negatively affect the liver. Special events are held:
- Gastric lavage from the remnants of poison. To do this, use slightly warm water with the expectation that an adult needs 10 liters of water.
- Use to remove the poison from the body with plasmapheresis, activated carbon or dropper;
- The use of vitamins of group B and C.
- To restore the liver use special hepatoprotectors , for example, Essentiale or Heptral.
- The use of choleretic drugs for the removal of toxins from the liver, for example, Holosas.
- If the attack of the disease was caused by poisoning with mushrooms, then special antidotes are used that prevent toxic damage to the cells.
During treatment, the patient is assigned a strict bed rest and a certain diet. The patient should eat the food in small portions, but often. In this case, the food should be:
- not salty;
- not fried;
- not greasy;
- not smoked;
- without spices;
- without animal fats.