Acute Liver Failure
Acute liver failure (ALF) is characterized by the loss of liver function that occurs rapidly from a few days to a few weeks.
We highly recommend you to visit your recommended doctor.
Symptoms
Feel like vomiting
or Throwing up
common
Yellow eyes or skin
common
Swollen belly
common
Fatigue
common
Abnormally low blood sugar
Confusion
Poor appetite
Decreased urine
Bleeding easily or difficulty controlling bleeding
Abdominal pain
In the upper right region
Itchy skin
Risk factors
Paracetamol
Viral infection causing liver inflammation and damage
Drug or substance abuse
Recent injection into vein
Use of fluoroquinolones
Autoimmune hepatitis
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
or Hodgkin lymphoma
Falling sick easily
Use of Anti-Tuberculosis medication
Treatment
People with acute liver failure are often treated in the intensive care unit of a hospital in a facility that can perform a liver transplant, if necessary. Your doctor may try to treat the liver damage itself, but in many cases, treatment involves controlling complications and giving your liver time to heal.
Acute liver failure treatments may include:
1-Medications to reverse poisoning.
2-Relieving pressure caused by excess fluid in the brain.
3-Liver transplant: when acute liver failure can't be reversed, the only treatment may be a liver transplant.
Recommended specialist
If you have Acute Liver Failure, then visit a gastroenterologist as soon as possible.
Contact a
Gastroenterologist
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