Patient's question:
My child's liver was damaged due to medication for tuberculosis, and now the liver is severely damaged with symptoms like nausea, vomiting, jaundice, ALT levels over 1000 times the normal range, red rashes, and swelling. What medicine should be used for rescue? Urgent, urgent, urgent. Thank you.Doctor's answer:
The liver is the most important metabolic and detoxifying organ in the human body. Most drugs are metabolized and detoxified by the liver. Therefore, any careless use of medications that harm the liver can lead to liver damage, known as drug-induced hepatitis.Treatment for drug-induced hepatitis:
(1) Immediately stop using drugs that are harmful to the liver.
(2) General treatment is the same as for acute or chronic hepatitis caused by other reasons, such as timely rest, providing a high-calorie, high-protein diet, and treating conditions like skin breakdown or hepatic coma accordingly.
(3) Supplement B vitamins and vitamin C; if there is a tendency to bleed, vitamin K should be added.
(4) Use medications with special therapeutic effects as much as possible. For example, hepatitis caused by isoniazid can be treated with intravenous administration of larger doses of vitamin B6.