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Liver odor

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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.