The 29-year-old girl has liver cancer because she drinks soup to help her skin before going to bed every day

Page 39 Health Net China recently reported that a woman surnamed Zhou (temporarily called Tieu Zhou), 3 days ago went to the hospital for check up due to frequent diarrhea. On examination, the doctor found that her liver area had obvious nodules, alpha-fetoprotein had a concentration of 500μg/L, and she was diagnosed with liver cancer.

Through finding out, Tieu Chu is an office worker, 1 year ago she began to focus on improving beauty. It is said that white wood ear (Tremella) is rich in collagen and can be used for beauty, so almost every night she drinks white wood ear soup with alum sugar before going to bed.

However, Tieu Chu is busy with work during the day, she often soaks white wood ear fungus the night before and drinks it the next night, sometimes white wood ear has a strange smell, she is afraid to throw it away, so she still tries to continue eating. Who knows, in the end things got to this point, she found out that she had liver cancer.

After listening to the story, the doctor sighed and concluded that the habit of drinking alum white mushroom soup every night before going to bed was the culprit causing Tieu Chu’s liver cancer. In fact, white wood ear fungus does have a beauty effect, but it is not possible to drink it every day, especially when soaking white wood ear for as long as Tieu Chu.

Basically, white ear fungus is also a fungus, when the fungus is soaked in water for too long, the nutrients will mix into the water to form a nutrient solution – a good environment for bacteria to float in the air. landing” and reproduce and grow. In particular, it can easily grow rice yeast acid (mycolic acid), a toxin listed as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO) that can persist even when treated. at high temperature.

The white wood ear soup with alum sugar that Tieu Chu uses every night before going to bed (Photo: Kknews)

Excessive accumulation of mycolic acid in the body can reduce liver cell activity or even inactivation, leading to increased stiffness in the middle of the liver, severe liver fibrosis leading to cirrhosis and even cancer. liver letter.

In addition, white ear fungus is a food with crude fiber, if consumed for a long time will also affect other body functions and cause organ and tissue diseases.

3 types of abnormalities that indicate you may have liver cancer

Professor Jiang Wenyu, Head of the Liver Disease Department of Yangzhou Hospital (China) advises that before liver cancer appears, if the body has the following abnormal symptoms, please go to the doctor and get treatment promptly. time.

1. Jaundice

Many patients with cirrhosis and liver cancer have symptoms of jaundice, specifically: yellow face, yellow urine, yellow sclera and other symptoms.

The above symptoms have a lot to do with excess bilirubin in the body. After liver disease, bilirubin in the body cannot be broken down quickly, accumulates too much in the body, some bilirubin will appear in the subcutaneous mucosa, sclera, and even urine, causing jaundice. .

2. “The smell of liver”

Common “liver odors” include bad breath and foul-smelling urine.

After liver damage, the breakdown of methionine causes problems, causing its metabolites (ammonia and sulfides) to appear in large amounts in the body. Some ammonia is excreted from the mouth or urine, causing a severe “liver odor”.

Liver odor has a very obvious characteristic that is the smell of rotten fruit or rotten eggs. After this happens, it is necessary to adjust liver function in time.

3. Unusual weight loss

If you notice severe weight loss, you must be on the lookout for the onset of liver cancer. When the tumor grows, it will consume a large amount of nutrients in the body, causing the body not to have enough nutrition and causing weight loss.

In addition, after liver cancer, the amount of bile secreted will not be enough, making food indigestible, nutrients in the body cannot be absorbed, which is also the main cause of abnormal weight loss.

References: Sina, Sohu, 39 Health Net, WHO