High triglycerides symptoms

Triglycerides are a form of blood fat and high triglycerides symptoms can occur at any person who have increased their level.

High triglycerides symptoms specifics

Triglycerides are the main components of vegetable oil and animal oils. Triglycerides from plasma are derived from food fats and carbohydrates. Calories ingested in a meal and not “burned” or used immediately by tissues, are converted into triglycerides and transported to cells to be stored as fat. Triglycerides and cholesterol can not dissolve in the blood circulating throughout your body with the help of proteins that carry lipids. Triglycerides play an important role in metabolism as energy sources. Excess of plasma triglycerides is called hypertriglyceridemia. High triglycerides levels usually do not causes symptoms so patients with hypertriglyceridemia do not go to the doctor for this problem. But sometimes can appear high triglycerides symptoms. People with high triglycerides (over 200 mg/dl) have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. People with diabetes or who are obese are also likely to have high triglycerides.

High triglycerides

The most common causes of occurrence of high triglycerides symptoms are the unhealthy food that individuals consume in daily life. One of the high triglycerides symptoms are eruptive xanthomas. These are deposits of lipids that appear on the skin especially on the skin around the eyes, elbows and knees in triglyceride levels over 1000 mg/dL. They often appear in groups and may cause pain at acute levels. Another high triglycerides symptoms is acute pancreatitis. Pancreas is an organ located in the abdominal cavity and which is behind the stomach. It has two functions: exocrine and endocrine function. Exocrine pancreas produces enzymes for digesting fats, proteins and carbohydrates, so they can be absorbed by the intestine.
If levels of triglycerides are very high for an extended period of time, high triglycerides symptoms may be abdominal pain because of liver or spleen enlargement.They can be discovered at a routine abdominal ultrasound. Doctors must seek the cause of hepatomegaly or splenomegaly.
High triglycerides symptoms can be treated by non-pharmacological methods or with drugs. Non-pharmacological methods refer mainly to lifestyle changes. First, if the patient with high triglycerides symptoms consumed excess alcohol, he must reduce alcohol to lower triglyceride levels. Patients should also reduce the consumption of fatty foods (butter, cream, margarine, bacon but other foods that contain high levels of fat). Another method of non-pharmacological treatment of high triglycerides symptoms refers to the practice of physical exercise. Patients with hypertriglyceridemia and hypercholesterolemia may be overweight and then doctors recommend them to lose weight and thus decrease of triglycerides and cholesterol levels.

Treatment of high triglycerides symptoms

Doctors may also prescribe drugs to disappear high triglycerides symptoms. These are gemfibrozil or nicotinic acid. Gemfibrozil is a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels and that decreases the production of triglycerides from the liver. Nicotinic acid may also lower cholesterol and triglycerides levels.

 Conclusion

When patients go to the doctor for high triglycerides symptoms, they should be treated because in time can lead to several complications.