If this part of the body becomes thicker, it may be a sign that the liver is not in good condition!

More and more young people are suffering from fatty liver

Fatty liver disease is becoming more and more common among young people. When I attend outpatient clinics, I often find that many young people in their twenties and thirties, and even teenagers, have varying degrees of fatty liver.

This is mainly due to the following reasons:

Poor eating habits

Frequently eating high-calorie and high-fat foods, such as fried chicken, barbecue, bacon, desserts, etc., or eating late-night snacks and drinking sweet drinks as water will lead to excess fat, which accumulates in various parts of the body, leading to obesity and fatty liver.

Sitting for a long time without exercising

Sitting for long periods of time, lack of physical activity, and inability to burn off energy and heat in the body can easily lead to fat accumulation. When it accumulates in the liver, fatty liver will form.

Long-term drinking

Alcohol can cause damage to liver cells, causing liver cells to decompose and metabolize fat, causing fat to accumulate in the liver.

Blind dieting to lose weight

People who are on a long-term diet, vegetarian diet or blindly lose weight will reduce the production of lipoproteins that metabolize fat due to lack of important nutrients (such as protein, carbohydrates, fats, etc.), affecting fat metabolism, and fat will accumulate in the liver.

If you have the above-mentioned bad living habits, then fatty liver is likely to have targeted you, but our liver is a very tolerant organ. When you first suffer from fatty liver, there will be nothing special about your body. Performance.

However, recent research has found that fatty liver disease can be diagnosed through a simple method, a preliminary self-diagnosis.

If your neck is too thick, you may be at risk of fatty liver disease

In other words, by measuring neck circumference, we can initially determine whether we have fatty liver.

Especially people who are fat and have bad living habits such as sitting for long periods of time, overeating and so on, can take out a soft ruler to measure.

Measurement methods:

Stand upright, look straight ahead, do not raise or lower your head, and open your mouth slightly to reduce the tension on the neck muscles;

Choose a soft tape measure, and place the tape measure horizontally on the thinnest part of the neck to measure, that is, the upper edge of the seventh cervical vertebra at the back of the neck (the most prominent part of the back of the neck when you lower your head), to the bottom of the Adam’s apple in the front.

Generally speaking, the normal neck circumference is less than 38 cm for men and less than 35 cm for women.
If the neck circumference exceeds this range, it means that the possibility of fatty liver is very high.

I suspect I have fatty liver.

What’s next?

First of all, you should go to a regular hospital [Hepatology Department] or [Gastroenterology Department] for treatment.

Doctors usually recommend a B-ultrasound examination, which is the preferred way to examine the liver.

However, before conducting B-ultrasound examination, you should be reminded that:

Fasting is required, and no food or water is allowed 8 hours before the examination (after eating the night before, until the examination the next morning), and you are not allowed to eat anything;

The night before the examination, choose light and easy-to-digest food, and avoid greasy and high-fat foods;

Do not eat foods that easily ferment and produce gas (milk, soy products, high-sugar foods, etc.) 3 days before the examination to avoid affecting the effect and accuracy of the examination;

If related examinations such as liver B-ultrasound or gastrointestinal barium meal need to be performed at the same time, the B-ultrasound examination should be performed first and then the barium meal examination to avoid affecting the results of the liver B-ultrasound examination.

The B-ultrasound examination can be completed in about 10 minutes, and the report will basically be issued on the same day.

If the diagnosis result is that you are not sick, or you are suffering from mild or moderate fatty liver, you only need to pay more attention in your daily life, develop good eating habits, have balanced nutrition, and exercise more to prevent and prevent fatty liver. Even a reversal effect.

If you are diagnosed with severe fatty liver, or even liver fibrosis, combined with hepatitis and other conditions, you need to actively cooperate with your doctor for treatment.

Don’t think that fatty liver is a minor disease. If you don’t pay more attention and leave it alone, it will develop into cirrhosis or even liver cancer, so you must actively control it.