Table of contents:
- How dangerous is a distended stomach?
- What are the diseases that cause a distended stomach?
- 1. Busung is hungry
- 2. Liver disorders
- 3. Kidney failure
- 4. Diabetes
- 5. End-stage cancer
Is your stomach bloated? If so, then you will definitely feel that your belly is disturbing your appearance and causing you to feel less confident. However, before you think about your appearance, you have to be aware that a distended stomach can also be caused by illness. What are the diseases that cause a distended stomach? The following is the review.
How dangerous is a distended stomach?
A distended stomach is also called abdominal obesity or central obesity. The cause of a distended stomach is not only caused by the accumulation of fat in the stomach, it can also be caused by diseases that endanger your health.
As a first step, to find out whether your belly is dangerous or not, measure your waist circumference to find out if you have abdominal obesity. You can use the tape loop around your stomach. The position of the meter is parallel to the tip of the pelvis and navel bones.
A man is declared to be suffering from abdominal obesity if his waist circumference exceeds 90 cm. Whereas for women, above 80 cm.
What are the diseases that cause a distended stomach?
Regardless of whether your belly is due to accumulated fat or your unhealthy lifestyle, there are various diseases that can make a person experience a distended stomach. The disease can be mild or even severe. The following are things that cause a distended stomach.
1. Busung is hungry
One of the diseases that causes a distended stomach is hungry edema or kwashiorkor. This disease is very easy for you to recognize, arises because the body lacks protein. One of the characteristics of a person affected by hungry edema is that their body will look very thin, but their stomach looks distended.
A distended stomach is a sign that something is wrong with these digestive organs. Busung hunger afflicts many babies and also children, this disease is experienced by many children and babies who live in rural Africa. However, there are still many cases of malnutrition found in Indonesia.
2. Liver disorders
One of the diseases characterized by a distended stomach is a liver disease such as experiencing symptoms of liver disease, liver cirrhosis, hepatitis and various other liver disorders.
The cause of a distended stomach is because the liver is a means of excretion in humans, excretion is the process of removing metabolic waste and other useless objects. If the liver is disturbed, the liver cannot carry out its function properly.
The function of the liver is to remove metabolic waste substances out of the body, a disturbed liver actually makes these substances accumulate in the body. This is what causes the stomach to become bulging.
3. Kidney failure
A disease characterized by a distended stomach or a swollen stomach is kidney disease. As with the liver, the kidneys are an excretory tool that will remove metabolic waste in the form of urine through the human urinary tract.
The function of the kidney which has been disturbed will accumulate this fluid in the body so that the body experiences swelling, especially in the legs, hands and also the stomach. Fluid buildup in people with kidney disease, especially kidney failure, is usually excreted by dialysis.
4. Diabetes
People who suffer from diabetes will have excessive sugar buildup in their body. Excessive sugar will be stored in the form of fat and accumulate in the stomach as well as in other parts of the body, this disease will be exacerbated by the presence of insulin resistance where insulin becomes insensitive.
5. End-stage cancer
A disease characterized by a distended stomach is end-stage cancer. Whatever the type of cancer, if it is marked by a distended stomach, it is certain that the cancer has spread to the abdominal cavity.
If the cancer has spread to the abdominal cavity, the life expectancy of the cancer sufferer is getting smaller. Not only that, cancer cells that spread to the liver and also to the kidneys will also exacerbate the buildup of fluid in the stomach of the cancer sufferer.
One way to remove this fluid is to suck it in, but the fluid can build up again due to cancer cells that are already in the abdominal cavity.
It is important for you to be aware of the five diseases that cause a distended stomach. From now on you must adopt a healthy lifestyle and a healthy diet. You have to prevent a distended stomach due to fat accumulation or because of disease before it can harm your health.
