Treatment of chronic hepatitis primarily includes medication (antiviral drugs) and vitamin therapy. In addition, a special full-fledged diet is important, excluding fried, fatty and smoked foods. To achieve the best effect from treatment, bed rest is also necessary (physical activity can lead to an increase in intra-abdominal pressure, which during periods of exacerbation of hepatitis is fraught with serious complications).
Spa treatment is one of the most effective ways to maintain liver health during periods of remission (improvement of health). Special medical nutrition is prepared for patients, bed rest is guaranteed, procedures are carried out.
Contraindications:
- All diseases of the digestive system in the acute phase.
- Cicatricial narrowing of the esophagus and intestines with impaired patency; the structure of the common bile duct and the duct of the gallbladder.
- Peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum in the acute phase, as well as peptic ulcer complicated by pyloric stenosis, repeated bleeding that occurred over the previous 8-10 months, ulcer penetration; suspected malignancy of stomach ulcers, Solinger - Ellison disease.
- Gastritis: rigid, antral, as well as stomach polyps, Menetrier's disease (hypertrophic gastritis).
- Complications after gastric surgery (non-healing postoperative scar, fistulas, adductor loop syndrome, the so-called vicious circle, dumping and hypoglycemic syndromes of severe degree, gastric stump atony, peptic ulcer of the small intestine in the exacerbation phase with a tendency to bleeding and penetration into neighboring organs, exacerbation of chronic postoperative gastritis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, severe form of post-vagotomy diarrhea).
- Enterocolitis with severe malnutrition (exhaustion).
- Chronic dysentery, nonspecific ulcerative colitis, chronic colitis with extensive ulcerative or erosive process in the rectum or sigmoid colon, detected during rectoromanoscopy or colonoscopy, as well as bleeding hemorrhoids, polyps or polyposis of the intestine.
- Cholelithiasis, accompanied by attacks of hepatic colic.
- Residual effects of viral hepatitis (Botkin's disease) with signs of increased activity of the process (the presence of pain, dyspeptic, asthenic syndromes) and significant deviations in liver function tests, including the level of tissue enzymes in the blood.
- ALT-AST; chronic active (progressive) hepatitis of any etiology.
- Cirrhosis of the liver.
- All forms of jaundice.
- Severe forms of pancreatitis. Violation of the patency of the pancreatic duct.
Treatment results
As a result of treatment in Staraya Russa, liver function is restored partially or completely (depending on the severity of the disease).
Consequences of lack of treatment
Hepatitis contributes to the development of diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver, steatosis, fibrosis, liver failure, etc.
Хронический гепатит – это воспаление печени, которое может продолжаться в течение 6 месяцев или даже дольше. Существует несколько причин появления хронического гепатита: вирусный гепатит, нарушение обмена веществ, неполноценное питание, воздействие лекарственных средств.
