Cyst of the liver: General information about the disease, its causes


Liver cyst is focal cavitary education with a transparent liquid or dark green jelly-like contents in the capsule. This pathology is not common, it occurs in only 1 % of the total population, with the major share of the risk group are patients aged 30 – 50, mostly women.

Liver cysts are classified as parasitic and separatornyi. The first category includes deviations that occurred as a complication in the period of intrauterine development of the fetus. The disease can also develop due to liver damage or necrosis of the tumor lesion. The reason for the formation of a parasitic cyst is the human contact with sick animals. Such formations are considered the most dangerous and require immediate treatment, because of contamination of internal organs by increasing cysts in size.


As for the symptoms, they may not be available for quite a long time, and only by chance that the cysts detected at ultrasonography. However, in the case of growths a person has pain in the right hypochondrium, belching, diarrhea, nausea. The patient asymmetrically increases the stomach and reducing weight. Non-specific manifestations of liver cysts include shortness of breath, weakness, excessive sweating, lack of appetite.

Treatment of cysts of the liver


Surgical removal of the cyst on liver experts used in the following cases:
- exceeding the diameter of the tumor more than 10 cm;
- a bright manifestation of the disease (pain, severe weight loss, digestive problems);
- bleeding;
- rupture or suppuration of the cyst.

The cyst is removed either with traditional open techniques or with the aid of laparoscopy. When polycystic recommended a liver transplant. Solitary cysts require resection of the body. Palliative interventions abdominal education itself is not deleted – specialist sighting needle aspiration of cystic content drains.

Treatment of cysts of the liver folk remedies


At small sizes of the cysts can be cured with folk remedies, but only after consultation with your doctor. Effective natural cure is the juice of burdock, squeezed from young may leaves after grinding them through a meat grinder. Squeeze the juice follows through cheesecloth, folded three times. Such a remedy is used within a month to 2 tablespoons before meals. You can keep it in the refrigerator for 3 days.

In the treatment of cysts of the liver is proven and juice of celandine, which is the same as the juice of burdock. The resulting juice combine with alcohol or vodka in a ratio of 1: 1. Ready means the first day of treatment drink on an empty stomach in the morning, adding 10 drops in 100 ml of milk. In the following days, increase the dosage by 1 drop until, until the specified amount of milk will not have 20 drops. The next 10 days means take this proportion and from the 11th day the dosage start decreasing at 1 drop, leading to the initial 10 drops. Then within 10 days you should stick to the dosage 10 drops on 100 ml of milk. Upon completion of the course doing a 10-day break and repeat the treatment again.

Should be adopted and the following recipe. 30 g of washed roots of elecampane, pour 3 liters of warm boiled water. To the ingredients add a tablespoon of dry yeast, after which the container should be put in a dark place for 48 hours. After this period, ready infusion take 100 ml after eating. The treatment is carried out until until the tool end. Then make a month break and resume treatment.