Patient's question:
When young, if you don't pay attention, almost all the basic media have banquets. At a banquet, you'll drink beer, more or less. Basically, there are 4 or 5 days a week when you drink beer, and you never worry about the future. When old, having retired from the frontline, you still maintain the bad habit of drinking a small cup every day. During last year's health check-up, it was discovered that you had developed alcoholic liver disease.Doctor's answer:
Alcoholic liver disease is a liver condition caused by long-term heavy alcohol consumption. When alcohol enters liver cells, it undergoes a series of enzymatic hydrolysis processes to be converted into acetaldehyde. Even moderate alcohol consumption can lead to significant toxicity in liver cells due to the large amount of acetaldehyde. This can directly or indirectly cause liver cell degeneration, inflammation, and fibrosis, which in severe cases can progress to cirrhosis.Recommendations for patients:
- Abstain from alcohol
- Maintain stable nutrition
- Treat liver damage
- Implement comprehensive prevention and treatment for other existing liver diseases
- Intercept or reverse the progression of liver fibrosis
- Promote liver regeneration
- Reduce complications
- Improve quality of life
For severe alcoholic liver disease patients, it is advised to seek medical attention immediately. Treatment should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor, and new medications should not be changed arbitrarily, as this may have the opposite effect on the treatment outcome.