Liver odor
Introduction
Introduction When the patient exhales, or when observing the patient's urine, if you smell a mixed smell of rotten apples and rotten eggs or a smell of aroma and sweet smell of fish, instant liver odor. Liver odor is a characteristic characteristic of patients with severe liver disease, especially hepatic coma, in liver failure.
Cause
Cause
Due to severe damage to liver function, after methionine is digested and bacteria act, in addition to releasing ammonia, it can also produce dimethyl sulfide and methyl mercaptan, which are retained in the body and released by breathing or urinating. Special smell. It is a special sweet and sour taste caused by the excretion of thiol substances from the lungs.
Examine
an examination
Related inspection
MRI examination of liver, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen by liver, gallbladder and spleen
When the patient exhales, or when observing the patient's urine, if you smell a mixed smell of rotten apples and rotten eggs or a scent of aromatic sweet smell.
Diagnosis
Differential diagnosis
Liver disease can have liver odor, which is characterized by bad breath. But that is the time when the liver function is abnormal, it is easy to appear, pay attention to identification.
When the patient exhales, or when observing the patient's urine, if you smell a mixed smell of rotten apples and rotten eggs or a scent of aromatic sweet smell.
