What are the effects of splenomegaly on the body? What are the effects of a large spleen?

Splenomegaly first causes a decrease in blood cells. Splenic sinus dilation, intrasplenic fibrous tissue hyperplasia, mononuclear phagocytic cell proliferation can occur, which can cause peripheral cytopenia, as a common is leukopenia and thrombocytopenia, and can also cause erythrocytopenia. Secondly, if the spleen is more obvious, it can cause obvious abdominal compression symptoms, such as abdominal fullness, stretching, and digestive symptoms due to gastrointestinal compression.

Splenomegaly causes hyperfunction of the spleen, which in turn leads to a decrease in the number of granulocytes and platelets in the body, so it is easy to develop infectious diseases and also lead to bleeding. Secondly, the enlarged spleen will also compress the surrounding organs, which in turn will cause the patient to experience abdominal pain, bloating, indigestion, etc.

After the spleen is enlarged, there will be hypersplenism, which is the main site of blood destruction, and hypersplenism will affect white blood cells and platelets, which may cause a decrease in both. Also, patients with splenomegaly may have localized tenderness. Since splenomegaly is the result of portal hypertension, patients with portal hypertension are also accompanied by hemorrhoids, ascites, esophageal and gastric varices, etc., especially the latter, which usually causes upper gastrointestinal bleeding, which is usually more difficult and easy to cause hemorrhagic shock and even the death of the patient.

This depends on age, it is normal for a younger person to have a larger spleen, but it will become normal as he gets older, and it is not normal for him to be older.

This is a very professional question, if it may be very bad.

Does the spleen have an effect on the body?

No, I don't. What can not be eaten if the spleen is swollen.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the innate foundation, the spleen and stomach are the acquired foundation, a person's physique is determined by the kidney, and the change and improvement of the system needs to regulate the acquired foundation, that is, the spleen and stomach. In order to achieve the balance of yin and yang, the spleen likes dryness and is afraid of wetness. At the same time, the stomach likes to be cool and moist, and is afraid of dryness.

The so-called spleen and stomach deficiency and cold means that the spleen is blocked and cannot help the stomach digest food. What should not be eaten for spleen and stomach deficiency? Spleen and stomach deficiency and cold avoid eating the following foods.

1. Melon, commonly known as melon. Cold in nature and sweet in taste. "Sun Zhenren Food Taboo" has already been warned:

melons are cold". It is also pointed out in the "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica": "Movement and cold disease".

Those who are suffering from spleen and stomach deficiency and cold must not eat, otherwise it is easy to cause stomach pain.

2. Water chestnut, a sweet and cold thing, can clear the stomach and heat, but those with cold stomach pain should avoid eating. As Meng Xian, a food doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said: "If there is air conditioning, you can't eat it." Qing Dynasty food doctor Wang Mengying also said in "Suixingju Diet Recipe": "Those who are deficient in qi and cold should not be avoided." ”

3. Mussel meat, cool in nature, sweet and salty in taste. "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica" says that it is "sexually cold". In "Materia Medica", it is believed: "Eat more and send wind, and move the air." "Eating Recipes with Rest" Yiyun: "Eat more in the cold." "People with cold stomach pain should especially avoid food.

4. Crab, cold in nature, salty in taste, is also a cool thing. It is recorded in the "Materia Medica": "If the blood is condensed due to cold, and the husband's spleen, spleen and stomach are weak and slippery, and the abdominal pain likes heat and cold, it is not suitable to take salt."

The "Diet Recipe for Living with Rest" also says: "Those who are deficient in qi and cold are avoided." Therefore, people with cold stomach pain and qi deficiency and stomach pain should not eat.

5. Snails, cold and cold stomach pain should not be avoided. There has long been a warning in the "Huiyan of Materia Medica": "This object is cold, and there is a cold drink in the stomach, so it is not suitable to eat."

Yao Kecheng also said in "Food Materia Medica": "Eating too much makes people suffer from abdominal pain." "Don't be careless.

The snail is the same as the snail, and those with cold stomach pain are also among the foods to be avoided.

In addition, people with cold stomach pain should also avoid eating mung beans, persimmons, raw tomatoes, bamboo shoots, gourds, lettuce melons, kelp, raw lettuce, raw radish, raw lotus root, raw cucumbers, raw sweet potatoes, honeysuckle, chrysanthemums, mint, duck eggs, clams, bracken, bracken, ground ear, tofu, malantou, cold tea and all kinds of cold drinks, iced food, cold and cold food will aggravate the pain of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.

Spleen is enlarged in the blood routine.

If the spleen is larger, one possibility may be that the liver is starting to harden, which is the beginning stage of cirrhosis.

An enlarged spleen will inevitably cause hypersplenism, the most obvious being that the spleen has too much ability to destroy blood cells. This shows up in your blood test results.

So, I think you probably have mild cirrhosis (to be clear, there may be). There is no ultrasound doctor who only looks at the spleen and not the liver. But from the doctor's words, it was not serious, so I didn't fill in the test results, and said it didn't matter.

In the normal state, the spleen can not be touched generally, if the supine or right decubitus position may touch the edge of the spleen, it can be considered to be splenomegaly, in recent years, B ultrasound in the clinical wide application, found a large number of hands can not touch the "spleen", in the health examination B ultrasound shows that the spleen is about 15, most of them are not touched by hand, B ultrasound shows that the spleen is actually measured, that is, it is really large, can show the spleen enlargement earlier, when the spleen can be touched by hand, the spleen has been more than doubled.

The causes of splenomegaly are:

1) Infectious splenomegaly. All kinds of acute and slow infections such as typhoid, paratyphoid, kala-azar, schistosomiasis, malaria, viral hepatitis, sepsis, late syphilis, etc.

2) Bloody splenomegaly. Spotik's syndrome, cirrhosis, cardiogenic cirrhosis due to chronic heart failure, chronic constrictive pericarditis, portal or splenic vein thrombosis.

3) Proliferative splenomegaly. It is seen in certain blood diseases such as leukemia, hemolytic anemia, malignant lymphoma, etc.

4) Miscellaneous. Malignant tumors of the spleen are rare, spleen cysts, disseminated lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, polyarteritis nodosa, and Gaucher's disease.

Due to the complexity of the cause of an enlarged spleen, except for a few artificial physiology, it should be searched for under the guidance of a doctor, and it should be reviewed regularly.

Because an enlarged spleen has a bad effect on the human body, surgery was used to remove the spleen. Removal of the spleen has the benefit of correcting the harm of splenomegaly to the human body, but this method also has shortcomings. After total splenectomy, the patient's immune function will be changed, the spleen filtration function will be lost, the IgM will be reduced, the levels of modulin and opsonin will be reduced, the T lymphocyte system will be disordered, the number of peripheral blood lymphocytes and the lymphocyte turnover rate will be significantly reduced, resulting in a significant increase in the chance of outbreak infection, and the surgical trauma is large and the cost is high.

There are also some patients with poor liver function, ascites, low protein, hematemesis and other poor conditions without surgical conditions.

The spleen is also an important organ of the human body, an important blood storage organ, and an important immune organ, and the spleen plays a very important role in the whole body defense system.

Hello, this situation may be a case of hypersplenism, it is recommended not to worry too much, or you need to continue to re-examine to determine the specific condition, and then according to the results of the examination to see if it is needed**.

In patients with no spleen under the ribs, further testing should be done to confirm enlargement. Spleen scans with 99 m technetium, 198 gold, or 113 m indium colloidal injection can help estimate the size and morphology of the spleen, and surgical resection is recommended if hypersplenism is severe. Good luck with a speedy **.