Symptoms of esophageal varices

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Esophageal varices have a special significance for Chinese people, because China is the first epidemic country of hepatitis B, many patients eventually entered the cirrhosis stage of liver failure. Due to the high pressure of portal vein system, one of the main blood supply sources of liver, its function is abnormal. The venous blood that should have flowed into the system and returned to the heart could not flow in. If it was deposited in the lumen, the vein would be abnormally expanded and could not be retracted to normal (the wall of the vein has no elasticity, and more blood would expand and lose its normal diameter, which is one of the main differences between it and the artery), It's the so-called varices. Now let's talk about the symptoms of esophageal varices.

Symptoms of esophageal varices

The prominent symptom of esophageal variceal bleeding is hematemesis, often a sudden attack, the blood color is fresh, gushing out, and even spray. Therefore, in acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding, such as patients with sudden shock, clinical often seen in esophageal variceal bleeding caused by portal hypertension. If the patient has a history of hepatitis, schistosomiasis or chronic alcoholism, physical examination shows spider nevus, abdominal varicose, splenomegaly or even ascites, and liver function test is abnormal, it often indicates cirrhosis and portal hypertension.

In the early stage, if esophageal varices are found, what we need is drug treatment or intravenous injection. Drugs can help reduce the pressure of portal vein, while intravenous injection can help change and improve the physical condition. This is the first treatment to be considered.

If it's serious, we need to perform single ring vein ligation. This is seen when we do endoscopy. After the scope is determined, we can withdraw the endoscope, insert the endoscope with a special plastic tube into the esophagus, and then slowly the varicose vein will enter the ligation tube.

matters needing attention

Esophageal varices after treatment in the diet must pay attention to, every day can eat some liquid food, don't eat too hard food, don't smoke and drink, the most taboo is bone, fishbone and so on.