71-year-old woman collided with hepatitis after intake of dietary supplements with turmeric for stroke prevention. This habit has provoked an abnormally high level of enzymes in the liver.
An elderly woman, whose name was not called for ethical reasons, collided with hepatitis after you start taking food supplements with turmeric. Within 8 months, the resident of the state of Arizona have adopted these additives for the prevention of stroke. During a routine medical examination it was found that women in the liver abnormally high levels of the enzyme. The doctors could not understand why the liver of the patient refuses, until then, until she admitted that drinking supplements with turmeric. Somewhere in the book the woman read that this Indian spice reduces the risk of stroke.
The doctors had to spend a considerable preventive work with patient in order to convince her that turmeric does not protect against stroke, but can cause liver damage. The woman even showed the results of research on the Internet. The doctors met with her a year, during which the functionality of the liver returned to normal, so the victim does not even require additional treatment.
Note that approximately 20% of American adults and 30% of the inhabitants of the UK take nutritional supplements. Among the most common is turmeric, because every third patient with rheumatoid arthritis is using this spice for its anti-inflammatory effects. However, prolonged use of turmeric provoked in women autoimmune hepatitis faced by 18 people out of every 100 thousand in Russia every year. In this disease the immune system mistakenly begins to attack the liver, causing inflammation. Note that the woman took 20 other medications and supplements every day for all occasions ranging from the treatment of problems with the thyroid gland and to the inflamed bowel syndrome and arthritis. But turmeric caused the development of liver problems. (READ MORE)