Can cirrhosis be cured? Treatment of cirrhosis

Cirrhosis is a chronic disease that, if not detected and treated early, will lead to dangerous complications. So can cirrhosis be completely cured? Let's immediately learn about current cirrhosis treatment methods through the following article.

1. Can cirrhosis be cured?
Cirrhosis can be cured if the patient is detected early and treated properly. When the body shows signs of suspected cirrhosis, patients need to immediately go to reputable medical facilities to have tests performed to determine the cause of the disease and proceed with treatment.

If you are in the compensated stage, the disease can still be cured and recovered. When treating cirrhosis in the early stages, it is necessary to understand the cause of the disease. Timely treatment and prevention of disease progression will help recovery be most effective.

In the case of end-stage cirrhosis, treatment measures only help prevent the disease from progressing more slowly and cannot fully recover. If cirrhosis is caused by chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C, with successful treatment to suppress the virus, the cirrhosis may stop progressing or progress very slowly. Recovering liver function in severe stages is almost impossible because liver cells have suffered too much damage. If you want your liver to be healthy and long-lasting, you need to take measures to support liver protection right from the beginning. However, most people are still not aware of the need to protect the liver early. It is only when the disease is detected or it becomes severe that they can actively treat it.

Regularly examine and monitor disease status, practice a healthy lifestyle, eat properly, and completely abstain from alcohol... to make the healing process more effective.

Cirrhosis can be cured if detected early

2. Treatment of cirrhosis
Treatment of cirrhosis depends on the patient's liver damage. The goal of treatment is to slow down the process of fibrosis in the liver, reduce symptoms and prevent complications of cirrhosis. Patients may stay in the hospital for a long time if liver damage is severe. Treatment of cirrhosis often depends on the cause of the disease. If at an early stage of cirrhosis, minimizing liver damage is the top goal. Readers can refer to some of the following cirrhosis treatment methods:

Treat the cause
– Alcoholic cirrhosis: Patients with cirrhosis due to drinking too much alcohol should stop drinking alcohol. If stopping drinking alcohol is too difficult for the patient, the doctor may advise on an alcohol treatment course.

– Cirrhosis due to overweight or obesity: If the patient has cirrhosis not due to alcohol but due to fatty liver, the condition can improve if the patient can control his weight and blood sugar levels.

– Cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B virus: Perform quantitative HBV tests. If HBV is detected, it is necessary to use Virus inhibitors such as Adefovir dipivoxil, Tenofovir, Entecavir, Telbivudine.

Medicines to treat cirrhosis
The use of drugs in the treatment of cirrhosis is aimed at restoring liver function, preventing complications and reducing the progression of the disease. Commonly used drugs include the following:

– Drugs that improve the metabolic function of liver cells:

+ Vitamin C: Use once every 7 - 10 days, intravenous dose 0.5g x 2 ampoules/day.

+ Vitamin B12: 200micrograms/day, intramuscular injection for 10 days or Lipochol taken orally 2 tablets/time, 1-2 times/day.

+ Cyanidanol: Take 500mg/time, 2 times a day.

Medicines can be used to inhibit the progression of cirrhosis

– Glucocorticoid medication: Only used in the progression of cirrhosis due to cholestatic hepatitis, use Prednisolon 20 – 25 mg/day for 1 – 2 weeks. When symptoms of the disease stabilize, use a maintenance dose of 5 - 10 mg/day.

– Testosterone: Helps enhance protein metabolism, intramuscular injection of 100mg/2 days for the first 4 weeks, then injection of 300mg every 14 days for a yearly period.

– Flavonoid Silymarin: Take 70mg/time, 2-3 times a day.

– Injection and infusion:

+ In patients with a large reduction in blood protein, especially Albumin, it is necessary to infuse concentrated Plasma, Albumin 20% or synthetic proteins every 1-2 weeks.

+ In case the patient has a reduced Prothrombin rate and has bleeding under the skin, gastrointestinal bleeding... blood transfusion can be given depending on the level of blood loss.

– Treatment of cirrhosis and ascites:

+ Potassium-retaining diuretic Aldactone 150 - 200mg/24 hours for 1 week. If the condition does not improve much, you can use a potassium-wasting diuretic such as Furosemide at a dose of 20 - 40 mg/24 hours for 10 - 14 days. Pay attention to supplementing potassium 2 - 6g/day.

+ If medication does not bring high treatment effectiveness, it is necessary to evacuate ascites and supplement albumin and intravenous Dextran.

Ascites aspiration if medications are ineffective

– Cirrhosis with ruptured esophageal varices causing gastrointestinal bleeding:

+ Endoscopically stops bleeding by injecting drugs that cause fibrosis at the bleeding site.

+ Intravenous drip infusion of Glanduitrin 20 - 40 dv in 300ml of 50% Glucose.

– Viral cirrhosis: Use drugs to inhibit the virus. In case of compensated cirrhosis, medication should be used until the HBeAg antigen test is negative. If the patient has decompensated cirrhosis, lifelong treatment is needed.

Herbal treatment for cirrhosis
– Ca gai leo:

When it comes to herbs that support the treatment of cirrhosis and liver diseases, we cannot ignore Solanum procumbens. According to published studies, Solanum procumbens contains many active chemicals such as Alkaloids and Glycoalkaloids that are very effective in protecting liver cells, restoring liver function, and slowing the progression of cirrhosis.

You can use dried Solanum procumbens to boil water to drink every day, helping to support the treatment of liver diseases. For greater effectiveness, you should use concentrated extracts or products extracted from Solanum procumbens to help reverse cirrhosis.

Solanum procumbens is widely used in the treatment of cirrhosis

– Artichoke plant:

Artichoke is a medicinal herb with high nutritional value, commonly used in remedies to support the treatment of liver diseases.

Cirrhosis patients can use artichoke leaves or flowers to make daily drinking water to enhance liver detoxification, support better liver function, and restore damaged liver cells.

– Soi pot grass:

Soi pot grass is also rumored by folk to improve the problems of cirrhosis and fatty liver. Some studies show that pot plant helps control liver enzymes and improve fatty liver condition.

Wash the pot plant, dry it or put it in the ground, then use the dried medicinal herbs to boil water and drink daily to help support the treatment of cirrhosis.

– Phyllanthus urinaria:

Also known as dogwood tree, it is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used in remedies to treat hepatitis and liver problems. Research shows that compounds in Phyllanthus urinaria have the ability to treat hepatitis, enhance liver regeneration, improve cirrhosis, and prevent liver cancer.

Wash, dry, and use dried or fresh medicinal herbs to boil water and drink daily to help enhance liver detoxification and improve liver diseases.

Phyllanthus urinaria is commonly used in folk medicine for the treatment of hepatobiliary diseases

Surgical treatment
Today, in addition to using drugs to treat cirrhosis, patients can use liver transplantation if cirrhosis is severe (grade 4 cirrhosis). However, due to high costs and scarce donor organs, they are rarely used.

In addition, stem cell therapy is also a new direction in the treatment of cirrhosis. Stem cells are isolated and obtained from many sources (embryo, fetus, umbilical cord blood, umbilical cord, baby teeth, bone marrow fluid or fat tissue of the adult body...). After being cultured to ensure the required quantity for transfusion and quality requirements are tested, the stem cells will be infused into the patient's body via veins or hepatic arteries. In particular, stem cell infusion into the hepatic artery has also been proven to be safe and most effective, and is widely used in the treatment of cirrhosis.

Stem cell method helps quickly restore liver function, hardly harms the body, patients do not need to take medicine and can still recover completely. It can be said that this is the most superior and promising method today, bringing normal life to cirrhosis patients.

Supportive treatment
In addition to using medication, cirrhosis patients should also follow the following principles to help treat the disease quickly:

– Eat enough protein, fiber, and reduce salt. You should eat steamed and boiled dishes and reduce fried and stir-fried dishes to reduce pressure on the liver and help the body metabolize food faster.

– Limit drinking alcohol, drinks containing stimulants, and carbonated soft drinks.

– Exercise to improve health and prevent diseases.

– Consult your doctor when using drugs that have the risk of harming the liver such as Paracetamol, antibiotics, Aspirin...

Treatment of cirrhosis plays an important role in treatment as well as increasing the patient's quality of life. Therefore, the best solution is early detection and thorough treatment of liver problems, avoiding dangerous complications that make the treatment process difficult.