Foods that are bad for the liver include fatty foods, fried foods, fried chicken, french fries, red meat, processed foods with too much salt, candy, cookies, soda and some fruit juices with added sugar.
Alcohol is also bad for the liver when consumed in excess and drinking too much alcohol can cause liver disease and even be fatal.
When you have liver problems your stool or poop will be clay colored because of the reduction of bile production resulting from liver problems.
Your liver releases bile salts into the stool, giving it a normal brown color.
Your liver is the reason that healthy poop looks brown.
The brown color comes from bile salts made by your liver.
If your liver doesn't make bile normally or if the flow from the liver is blocked, your poop will look pale like the color of clay.
Pale poop often happens along with yellow skin (jaundice).
The part of the body that itches with liver problems are the palms of your hands, soles of your feet and your limbs.
Itching that is associated with liver disease tends to be worse in the late evening and during the night.
Some people with liver disease may itch in one area, such as a limb, the soles of their feet, or the palms of their hands, while others experience an all-over itch.
What kind of liver disease causes itchy skin?
Itching is rare in alcohol-related liver diseases and nonalcoholic fatty liver diseases, but is most common with other types of liver diseases, including primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.
The symptoms of end stage liver failure are swelling due to fluid buildup in your abdomen and legs, easy bleeding, easy bruising, Nausea, Intense Itching, problems with concentration and memory, Jaundice which is persistent or recurring yellowing of the skin.
Jaundice is one of the most common signs of liver failure so if you have yellowing of the skin you should get checked out.
The stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver is a bad stage of liver failure.
When you have stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver you will die within a few weeks to a few months or so without a liver transplant.
If you don't get a liver transplant soon when you have stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver then the liver can completely fail and you'll have end stage liver failure.
Once that happens then you have a shorter time to live.
So you must get a liver transplant soon if possible.
Not everyone can get a liver transplant though so you have to be prepared to die as there's no cure for stage 4 cirrhosis of the liver.
Some stages of liver failure can be reversed but once it progresses too far then there's no cure.
As liver function deteriorates, one or more complications may develop, often the first signs of the disease.
When liver damage progresses to an advanced stage, fluid collects in the legs, called edema, and in the abdomen, called ascites.
Ascites can lead to bacterial peritonitis, a serious infection.