Bollywood veteran star Amitabh Bachchan’s liver is 75% damaged! Know all the medical problems of this mega star!
- Bollywood veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan has seen a lot of ups and downs in his life-work wise, financially as well as on the health front
- Every time he gives something new update about his health, it leaves everyone bewildered
At the launch of a Hepatitis B campaign by the Health Ministry in association with UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) in Mumbai, India, Amitabh Bachchan shared information about his liver condition with the people.
Amitabh Bachchan and his liver disease
He has Hepatitis B infection of his liver which he contracted with a contaminated blood transfusion given to him when he had a near-fatal accident while filming for the film Coolie at the Bangalore University Campus.
Amitabh Bachchan had said:
“Hepatitis B came to me accidentally. After my accident on the sets of Coolie, I was infused with the blood of about 200 donors and 60 bottles of blood were injected into my system. The Australian antigen Hepatitis B had only been detected three months ago and it was very new for being detected also among various tests needed to be carried out before giving blood to another patient.”
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He continued:
“One of my blood donors was carrying Hepatitis B virus, which went into my system. I continued to function normally till year 2000 and almost 18 years after the accident, during a very normal medical checkup, I was told that my liver was infected and I had lost 75 percent of my liver. So, if I am standing here today, you are looking at a person who is surviving with 25 percent of the liver. That is the bad part. The good part is you can survive even with 12%. But no one wants to get to that stage.”
The 1982 accident on the sets of the film Coolie
No Amitabh Bachchan fan can forget the accident that took place on the set of the film Coolie in the year 1982.
During the fight scene shoot with one of his co-stars Puneet Issar, Amitabh was injured in the abdomen and had to undergo an emergency splenectomy for it.
He had almost died on the operation table and had to be resuscitated. He survived the accident though he was in a critical condition in the ICU for several months.
Amitabh Bachchan’s other medical conditions and surgeries
In 1984, Amitabh was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis. In this condition, there is a progressive loss of power in the muscles of the body towards the evening time. They gave him medicine for it and most likely he had a thymectomy as well.
In 2000, he had a TB spine. While talking at an event to spread awareness of tuberculosis, he had said:
“In 2000, I was detected with TB and went through a very rigorous treatment for almost a year. I contracted TB on the day I was going to start TV show KBC. It was a TB of spine. It’s very uncomfortable. You cannot sit or lie down. Most of the time, I was on 8-10 pain killers a day just to survive the period when I was anchoring the game show.”
In the same year, Amitabh Bachchan was also detected to have Hepatitis B infection of his liver and it was slowly damaging his liver. He talked about his health condition of him in 2015.
In 2002, he had surgery performed on his liver. Later in 2005, he underwent another major surgery on his abdomen for inflammation and perforation of his intestine which was probably the sequel of his 1982 abdominal injury at the shoot of Coolie. At Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai, he underwent treatment for nearly a month.
In addition to his chronic stiff neck and shoulder pain, Amitabh, also known as Big B, suffers from recurrent injuries from past stunts he performed for his film roles in the 1970s and 1980s.
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2008 and 2012, were also operative sites for him. In February 2018, he was briefly in the hospital for the spine, neck, and lower back pain. In March 2018, during the shoot for Thugs of Hindostan in Jodhpur, he again had a health scare and had written on his social media:
“I am getting my team of Doctors in tomorrow morning to fiddle around with my body and set me up again .. i will rest and keep informed in process ..”
Amitabh also suffers from severe asthma and is using inhalers for it. Or has to salute this great actor’s willpower and determination that keeps him going despite all odds!
Source: thenewsminute.com
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