Patient's question:
My colleague has developed alcoholic liver disease, and now his colleagues have started to hide it from him. However, that colleague said alcohol-related liver disease is not contagious. Hello expert, is alcoholic liver disease contagious? Thank you for your explanation!!Doctor's answer:
Does alcoholic liver disease transmit? Many believe that all liver diseases are necessarily contagious, and alcoholic liver disease is also unknown. So, does alcoholic liver disease actually transmit? Liver disease experts quote: Alcoholic liver disease includes alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic liver fibrosis, and alcoholic cirrhosis. It is mainly caused by long-term heavy drinking (alcoholism), leading to repeated fat degeneration, inflammation, and regeneration of liver cells, and has nothing to do with viral infections or other infectious diseases. Therefore, as an individual entity, alcoholic liver disease is not contagious and will never infect others. There is no need to "fear liver disease."