In winter, the weather is getting cold. Outside of work, some people like to drink to warm up. I do not know, frequent alcohol consumption is likely to cause alcoholic fatty liver, so that every autumn and winter season, patients with alcoholic fatty liver showed an increasing trend.
Medical research shows that the occurrence of alcoholic fatty liver has a direct relationship with alcohol consumption and duration, and it has no obvious relationship with the type of drinking. After alcohol enters the body, 90% is metabolized in the liver. Alcohol can affect all aspects of fat metabolism, so the liver decomposes it as a toxic substance. If you drink alcohol regularly, the burden on the liver will increase, and its ability to decompose will gradually decrease, eventually leading to accumulation of fat in the liver and alcoholic fatty liver. Most fatty liver patients are alcoholic fatty liver.
Alcoholic fatty liver disease is not easily distinguishable from other liver diseases, and patients do not have obvious symptoms. This is precisely the danger, because if alcoholic fatty liver is not treated, it will develop into steatohepatitis. The patient's hepatocyte cytoplasm is filled with fat particles, resulting in hepatocyte necrosis and rupture, causing secondary inflammation, repeated inflammatory lesions, and the liver continuously repairing with fibers, resulting in liver fibrosis. For this reason, if you feel that your right flank is sore and heavy after you continue drinking, you should receive ultrasound and liver enzyme tests.
Alcoholic fatty liver should eat less greasy food while abstaining from alcohol. Generally, it will return to a healthy state after 2 months. If patients with liver enzymes (GOT, GPT) exceeding normal levels are diagnosed with steatohepatitis, rigorous treatment is required. At this point you must take drugs while you are abstinence.
Some fatty liver patients only hope for drug treatment and are not interested in diet prescriptions. In order to heal as soon as possible, they often use some folk remedies or eat some strong agents. I do not know, folk medicine or strong agent is also one of the reasons causing hepatitis. If you really want to protect your liver, you must stop drinking. In 1998, the World Health Organization removed the phrase "drinking moderately" and changed it to "reduce dangerous drinking". It is to advocate that people drink less or not drink alcohol. Even if they drink a small amount of alcohol, they have to spend at least 3 days each time.