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Replenishing, restoring and detoxifying the liver are the top concerns of patients with liver diseases. Besides treatment drugs under the guidance of specialists, patients have spent a lot of time and money to find and buy antidote to liver, restore liver function. However, an extremely important issue is how to use liver tonic to bring the highest efficiency?
1. Why to detox the liver?
The liver is an extremely important organ with the task of preventing and metabolizing toxins that are introduced into the body (such as food, smoke, dust, alcohol, beer). However, the ability to detoxify the liver is still limited. If the body is exposed to too much toxic substances, it will overload the liver, as a result, toxins will accumulate in the body, first in the liver and gradually spread to other organs...
Then , in order for the body's activities to be balanced again, we need to strengthen measures to detoxify the liver, this is especially necessary in people with impaired liver function, the liver has to work too hard. . Detoxing the liver is both a way to prevent dangerous complications and maintain the health of the body.
Many manufacturers have turned consumer attention to liver antidote products. There are many products with many different names such as liver detoxifier, liver rescue, liver protection, liver tonic ... and most manufacturers guarantee the ability to help the liver restore function. initial capacity. However, the question is how the liver tonic is used and how effective it is in practice.
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2. Liver antidotes
Currently, on the market, there are many products that have the function of protecting the liver parenchyma, enhancing liver function, increasing liver detoxification and most of the users call it a liver tonic. Which is mainly divided into 2 types:
Group of synthetic compounds such as Cianidanol, Essential, Flumeciol, Methionine...; Group of pharmaceutical substances extracted from medicinal herbs and herbs such as Biphenyl dimethyl dicarboxylate, Silymarin, Silibinin... Specific functions and indications of liver antidotes and liver tonics are as follows:
Cianidanol: Helps to enhance concentration ATP, neutralize free radicals, stabilize lysosomal membranes in hepatocytes and increase immune response. This liver antidote is indicated in acute/chronic viral hepatitis, alcoholic liver disease or acute hepatotoxicity; Essential (injection form): The effect of regulating liver function has been disturbed... The drug is indicated in cases of fatty degeneration of the liver due to causes, acute/chronic hepatitis, early stage cirrhosis or damage to liver function due to other pathologies; Flumeciol: Essentially an enzyme inducer, it has the function of enhancing the protection of the liver parenchyma (having the ability to detoxify the liver with some chemicals or drugs). Indicated for use in toxic hepatitis (such as drug poisoning), prevention of jaundice in infants; Methionine: Often used in drug-induced liver toxicity, secondary anemia, purpura, malnutrition due to disease or lack of protein...; Biphenyl dimethyl dicarboxylate: With the ability to protect the liver, against alcohol or drug-induced liver damage, improve ALT elevation. Indications for use in the treatment of viral hepatitis, alcohol use, drug-induced hepatitis or fatty liver; Silibinin and silymarin: These two liver antidotes help protect the liver (by stabilizing cell membranes, maintaining hepatocyte function), stimulating liver parenchymal regeneration. Therefore, it is indicated for use when it is necessary to protect the liver parenchyma when using toxic drugs for the liver.
3. How to use liver tonics safely?
3.1. Choose a liver tonic
There are many tonic or liver detox products on the market, patients who want to choose a quality and suitable product need to pay attention to the following issues:
Liver detoxifier must be recommended by a doctor specialist; The ingredients in the drug have been clinically tested and must be safe; Liver detoxification products need to have the effect of supporting the treatment and prevention of liver disease at the root; Produced by reputable pharmaceutical companies, origin, clear origin.
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3.2. How to use liver tonic properly?
Time to use liver antidote: The right time to use liver tonic is when your lifestyle and work nature threaten your liver function such as: Regularly drinking alcohol, smoking, using Using many special drugs for diseases, history or being infected with hepatitis... Taking at the recommended time will optimize the effect of the antidote to the liver.
Time to use liver tonic: 30 minutes before meals instead of before going to bed. The reason is that taking the drug 30 minutes before eating helps maximize the effect of supporting the elimination of toxins, stimulating the secretion of bile to digest food.
Use the right dose of liver antidote: Most liver tonics have natural ingredients, so they are quite benign. However, it is not for that reason that excessive use of tonics and liver detoxification is not allowed. Patients need to take the medicine exactly as recommended on the package or as directed by the doctor. The dose of liver antidote depends on many factors such as the health condition, the disease of each person.
Use drugs in the right course: Liver tonics and liver detoxifiers mostly take effect after 1 month from the time they start taking them. Patients need to be persistent in taking the drug throughout the course of treatment. The length of time that antidote is taken for the liver is long or short, depending on how well each person responds to the drug.
3.3. Mistakes when using liver antidote
There are many cases of taking liver antidote for a long time, but the liver condition does not improve due to the following mistakes:
Current liver antidote products are mostly focused on reducing symptoms. symptoms such as boils, urticaria, help eat well, sleep deeply without paying attention to protecting the liver from the root. Therefore, before taking liver tonics, liver detoxifiers, patients need to be examined and consulted by a doctor to choose the right drug. Use diuretics to detoxify the liver: Many people believe that liver detoxification is excreted through the urine, so liver tonic products will have the effect of increasing the excretion of toxins through urine, helping to enhance liver function. However, these drugs only make the patient urinate more, put pressure on the kidneys but have no effect on the liver, long-term use is also a risk of kidney failure. Drinking alcohol freely: due to the notion that the liver detoxifier is a talisman, many patients no longer consciously abstain from alcohol. When suffering from liver diseases, it is still necessary to use specific drugs, liver antidotes are only used to support the liver, cannot replace specific drugs. Liver tonics, liver detoxifiers, if taken properly, will support specific drugs in improving liver damage and dysfunction. The most favorable time to take liver antidotes is after the liver disease has stabilized or is relatively stable. When the liver returns to normal, the drug should be discontinued. For people who do not have liver disease but whose liver function is weak for some reason, then it is possible to use liver tonic preparations to nourish the liver, but it is necessary to consult a doctor, do not arbitrarily use it. liver tonic, liver detoxifier, liver enzyme-lowering medicine... In principle, if you don't have a disease, you don't use drugs, including antidote for the liver.
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