Drink water
Nowadays some people believe that by drinking water will help to reduce weight. This method has a potential threat that cannot be ignored. It is especially not suitable for people who have incomplete cardiac function, nephropathy, ear solution imbalance (Meniere’s disease),anemia, etc. Although we drink water from the mouth, it is not directly discharged from anus and it cannot easily carry away waste materials. In fact, when water gets into the body, it is absorbed to form body fluid, participating in the normal metabolism of water and electrolyte, and it can affect blood density, viscidity and osmotic pressure. When water is discharged, it will carry away some electrolyte, and then fortify the kidney function.
Although there is normal water metabolism in body, drinking water blindly without paying attention to water quality, or drinking too much in a short period of time would cause dropsy at labyrinth of inner ear, and vertigo may relapse. Therefore people who have repeating vertigo history and delicate constitution should be more careful. You must not think that by drinking 6 liters of water per day, you can reduce 10 kg within a month, and be allured to try it blindly. Your health will be deteriorated before you see any benefit.
Inducing diuresis
You should remember it that hepatic edema is not simple obesity. You cannot attempt to cure it by using medicine for inducing diuresis and anhydration. The chance of succeeding is low. Doctors often treat hepatic edema and secondary obesity with anhidrotic medicine in order to eliminate edema. It gives no cause for much criticism to use anhidrotic medicine intermittently for the suit of case. If these patients use diuretic chronically to treat edema (especially some hypotensors), the electrolyte balance in the body will be disturbed and that the effect of inducing diuresis becomes unconspicuous. (Similarly, the effect of decreasing blood pressure also declines).
To reduce weight merely by using diuretic will cause electrolyte disturbance in body and the patient will feel lassitude and weak, loss of spirit easily. If kalium level of the patient is low, it may also lead to myasthenia, hypopiesia, bitter taste in the mouth, inappetence, low appetite, diarrhea, fidgetiness, emotion disturbance, and severely cause drowsiness, hyporeflexia, oliguria, anuresis, shock, phrenitis, loss of partial consciousness or even coma. If blood sodium declines rapidly, it may cause dizziness, headache, fullness of head, anorexia, jerk, nausea, vomitus, and even severely cause acute overhydration and hydrocephalus. But once you stop taking diuretic, emema may easily relapse. Therefore, in order to take a radical measure, it is important to cure hepatophilic viral disease in the first place and hepatic edema may then be controlled easily. Secondary obesity may refrain from further development and body weight even be reduced accordingly.
Taking lapactic
Patients with hepatic edema and secondary obesity patients always have many clinical symptoms of active hepatitis. Obstinate chronic coprostasis is the symptom of large intestine fever with stagnation of liver-energy and lung-heat, and it is also a common symptom found among many patients. In addition, some patients may have hemorrhoids and anal fissure, which causes repeating hematochezia. Chronically blood loss is often the inducement for the development of hepatic edema and secondary obesity. No matter at which age, constipation gives patients much disadvantage as there is a need of deobstruent to defecate. At present, many diet drugs contain cathartic component which help to defecate. Patients are easily addicted to them in the long term for the purpose of defecation. These methods are not the proper ways for losing weight. They can only be temporary solutions but would not effect a permanent cure. Lapactic drugs can only delay the treatment of liver disease, and affirmatively cannot induce a significant effect on hepatic edema and secondary obesity.
Instead, the most effective way for weight reduction is to take traditional Chinese medicine in a systematic manner so as to eliminate stagnation of liver-energy and intestine heat in the body and eventually to cure hemorrhoids and to stop hematochezia. There are different kinds of lapactic in the market and you should consult the doctor’s advice beforehand.
Dietary control
As secondary obesity or hepatic edema is caused by liver disease, dietary control as a means to reduce weight is inappropriate. On the contrary, patients should follow the dietary principles for treatment of hepatitis – i.e.high protein, high amylum, high vitamin and low fat.
Some people want to reduce weight by dietary control. If the patient has been infected with chronic hepatophilic viral disease, which is subsequently supervened with hepatic edema and secondary obesity, the excessive dietary control would be unwise and should be asked to stop as soon as possible.
Some research papers pointed out that a person will get fastidium among every 5-10 dieters, and that only 50% of fastidium patients can get back to normal weight in ten years. We often found that many patients having chronic hepatophilic viral disease do have secondary obesity. The weight reduction by dietary control can cause abnormal function of the somatic or relapse of hepatitis and eventually formed a vicious circle. These methods cannot effectively reduce weight but in turn deteriorate our health.