Can you feel your liver if its inflamed?

In some severe cases, you might notice a feeling of bloating or fullness in your belly, or an ache in your upper right abdomen, where your liver is. It's more likely your healthcare provider will discover it during an exam. They might notice that your liver is palpable to the touch, which it normally wouldn't be.

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Overview

What is an enlarged liver?

Your liver is one of your essential organs — one you can’t live without. It performs many important bodily functions, including filtering toxins from your blood and regulating your blood cholesterol. Your liver’s role as a filter makes it vulnerable to toxic overload. Too many toxins or fats in your blood can cause liver inflammation (hepatitis). If you have an enlarged liver (hepatomegaly), your liver is swollen beyond its normal size. This is a symptom of an underlying problem. Most often, it's a type of liver disease, causing it to swell with inflammation. But sometimes it's a disease in your blood or heart. You and your healthcare provider will need to investigate and address the underlying disease.

Is an enlarged liver dangerous?

Not by itself. But it does mean that your liver might be in some distress. Depending on the cause, this could be more or less dangerous. It could be an emergency or just a warning. Sometimes your liver swells in response to a short-term (acute) condition, then goes back to normal. It could also have a chronic (long-term) condition that is causing slow but progressive damage. It's important to diagnose liver disease earlier rather than later. Some emergency causes of hepatomegaly include heart failure and cancer.

What are the symptoms of an enlarged liver?

You likely won’t notice an enlarged liver on your own. In some severe cases, you might notice a feeling of bloating or fullness in your belly, or an ache in your upper right abdomen, where your liver is. It’s more likely your healthcare provider will discover it during an exam. They might notice that your liver is palpable to the touch, which it normally wouldn’t be. If your swollen liver is a sign of liver disease, it might come with other related symptoms, such as:

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What organ can you live without?

sciencefocus.com - How many organs in the body could you live without?

Asked by: Alicia Jones, Maidstone

You can still have a fairly normal life without one of your lungs, a kidney, your spleen, appendix, gall bladder, adenoids, tonsils, plus some of your lymph nodes, the fibula bones from each leg and six of your ribs. Losing your uterus, ovaries and breasts, or your testicles and prostate, is also quite survivable, although you might need hormone therapy to avoid other long-term problems, such as brittle bones. If you allow yourself artificial replacements and medication, we can go further and remove your stomach, colon, pancreas, salivary glands, thyroid, bladder and your other kidney. Still not enough for you? Theoretically, surgeons could amputate all of your limbs, and remove your eyes, nose, ears, larynx, tongue, lower spine and rectum. Supported by machines in an intensive care unit, they could also take away your skull, heart and your remaining lung, at least for a short while. This adds up to a theoretically survivable loss of around 45 per cent of your total body mass. But any trauma that destroyed all these organs all at once would almost certainly kill you from shock and blood loss. And surgically removing them one at a time over many months would likely also be fatal, due to infections in your immune-compromised state.

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