Liver disease. How do you keep the ammonia from building up in the blood?

Answer 1

As in the recent "Scrubs" musical, it all comes down to poo. To keep ammonia from building up in blood you need to be pooping. Taking lactulose can help decrease the amount of ammonia that gets into your body and make you poop it out. Also, decrease your protein intake. If you have liver disease, you should be on a low protein diet, because increased protein means increased ammonia.

Answer 2

is liver disease hereditary in your family. Is anyone there an alcoholic? Usually when someone asks about the liver it's because someone has drunk themself silly over the years and so the liver is no longer functioning. I don't know why you'd be asking that question. Use the yahoo search engine to find an answer about the ammonia as I've never heard about amonia.in blood or it being connected with a disease.

Answer 3

Lactulose is one medicine commonly used to reduce ammonia levels in advanced liver disease.

Correcting pH and electrolyte disturbances, restricting dietary protein, preventing constipation, and preventing gastrointestinal bleeding are methods used to treat hepatic encephalopathy in its early stages. When bleeding occurs in the gastrointestinal tract, bacterial action creates increased ammonia. Sterilizing the bowel by giving neomycin, a drug that is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, may prevent ammonia formation by decreasing bacterial counts. Lactulose may also be given to help contain ammonia in the gastrointestinal tract where it can be excreted in the feces.

http://www.liverdisease.com/encephalopathy_hepatitis.html