Why are patients with liver cirrhosis prone to infection?

Patients with cirrhosis are prone to concurrent infections, mainly due to the following reasons. First, if patients with cirrhosis develop into decompensation, they will show hypersplenism, which in turn will show a decrease in three types of white blood cells, among which the decrease in white blood cells will It is easy to induce infection, so this is the first reason. Second, due to impaired liver function after cirrhosis, the patient's defense ability will decrease, and natural immune molecules will decrease, so it will be easy to concurrent infections. Third, portal hypertension will cause damage to the intestinal mucosa barrier, resulting in increased intestinal wall permeability, bacteria easily enter the portal vein and enter the blood circulation, and ascites caused by portal hypertension is also a very good environment for bacterial growth, so it is easy to induce infection.