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4 Things Your Feet Could Be Telling You About Your Liver Health

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Each of your feet has 26 bones and 33 joints, making them ideal places for arthritis. Liver disorders are among the possible causes of this foot discomfort, which has a broad spectrum of symptoms.

The Cleveland Clinic explains that both cirrhosis-related illness and cirrhosis itself may cause pain.

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You may also have osteoarthritis and cirrhosis, which makes your bone and joint pain worse, their experts say, citing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease as an example.

In addition, cirrhosis generates an inflammatory condition throughout your whole body. General pain may be caused by inflammation and your body’s response to it.

4. Itchiness in your feet.

Some patients develop itchy skin on their hands and feet in advanced cases of hepatitis.

You may develop a condition called pruritus, which causes your skin to itch terribly. Itching can be isolated to your hands and feet, which is common.

Even without pruritus, side effects of treatment, may dry out your skin and cause itching. As a result, moisturizing techniques must be followed correctly.

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