Agents responsible for liver damage
Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition 3(2+1)
Agents responsible for liver damage
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- Dietary deficiencies
- Fatty changes in kwashiorkor due to low protein, severely low ? lipoprotein
- High intake of fats or carbohydrates
- Infective agents
- Virus infections causes hepatitis A,B,C,D,E and G
- Type- E is dangerous during pregnancy.
- Hepatitis A and E virus contaminates through faecal-oral route leading jaundice and liver enlargement
- Hepatitis B, C, D and G virus cause homologous serum jaundice with low blood or blood products of carrier, unsterilized needles
- Yellow fever, typhoid, Weil's disease (spirochete) and amoebiasis
- Toxic agents
- Alcohol intake enhancing fatty acid synthesis
- Decreasing fatty acid oxidation
- Specific stimulation to triglycerides
- Drugs and chemicals: paracetamol and oestrogen
Excess stores of iron, copper, galactose, glycogen leading to Cirrhosis
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