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Want To Know About Hepatic Encephalopathy. What Are Its Causes, Adverse Effects, And Remedies?
Question: respected doctor, i want to know about "hepatic encelopalpathy". its main causes, its adverse effects,and its cure, remedy etc?????. since my mother is suffering from cirrhosis about 2 years
now she is in hospital about 15 days,due to diarrheal infection,loose motion, vomiting, pain in abdomen,medicines were given are, metrogyl and sodium lactate(inj).symptoms are stopped in 2 days, now they stop giving these two medicine for 5 days.after that doctor started giving medicines are-cefipime ,hepamerz, rifagut, nebicard,spironolactone. my mother stopped speaking anything,not able to open her eyes(no problem in vision),making sounds,very weak health but stable. she can move her head, legs and hand very often.doctor declaring that there is less chances to recover, though this disease can also be reversed.creatinine is 4.0, albumin is 1.8, others are normal, now my final query is, is there any chances to get her into in normal life?is it curable or not? thanking you,waiting for answer.
now she is in hospital about 15 days,due to diarrheal infection,loose motion, vomiting, pain in abdomen,medicines were given are, metrogyl and sodium lactate(inj).symptoms are stopped in 2 days, now they stop giving these two medicine for 5 days.after that doctor started giving medicines are-cefipime ,hepamerz, rifagut, nebicard,spironolactone. my mother stopped speaking anything,not able to open her eyes(no problem in vision),making sounds,very weak health but stable. she can move her head, legs and hand very often.doctor declaring that there is less chances to recover, though this disease can also be reversed.creatinine is 4.0, albumin is 1.8, others are normal, now my final query is, is there any chances to get her into in normal life?is it curable or not? thanking you,waiting for answer.
Hello,
Thanks for the query.
Hepatic encephalopathy is a symptom of the accumulation of toxic substances in the bloodstream, normally removed by the liver. This substances cause serious brain dysfunction and result with coma or altered level of consciousness.
Main cause of it is chronic liver disease aggravated by an additional cause such as infection, constipation, some drugs, renal failure, alcohol overdose, paracentesis, etc. Hepatic encephalopathy is potentially curable with antibiotics (neomycin and rifamixine=rifagut), XXXXXXX (L-ornithine and L-aspartate = hepamerz) and diet with branched-chain amino acids supplementation.
If it`s about you mother, according to creatinine level it seems like there is also an acute renal failure (caused by dehydration due to diarrhea). This means your mother suffers from hepatorenal syndrome.
This happens, when acute renal failure appears in people with liver cirrhosis.
And if hepatic encephalopathy is curable, than hepatorenal syndrome is usually fatal, and liver transplant is the only remedy.
Hope this will help. Let me know if you have other enquiries.
Take care
Thanks for the query.
Hepatic encephalopathy is a symptom of the accumulation of toxic substances in the bloodstream, normally removed by the liver. This substances cause serious brain dysfunction and result with coma or altered level of consciousness.
Main cause of it is chronic liver disease aggravated by an additional cause such as infection, constipation, some drugs, renal failure, alcohol overdose, paracentesis, etc. Hepatic encephalopathy is potentially curable with antibiotics (neomycin and rifamixine=rifagut), XXXXXXX (L-ornithine and L-aspartate = hepamerz) and diet with branched-chain amino acids supplementation.
If it`s about you mother, according to creatinine level it seems like there is also an acute renal failure (caused by dehydration due to diarrhea). This means your mother suffers from hepatorenal syndrome.
This happens, when acute renal failure appears in people with liver cirrhosis.
And if hepatic encephalopathy is curable, than hepatorenal syndrome is usually fatal, and liver transplant is the only remedy.
Hope this will help. Let me know if you have other enquiries.
Take care
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