Patient's question:
I am quite overweight, I dislike drinking beer, and I also dislike eating animal organs. Recently, my workplace organized a health check-up, and I was carefully diagnosed with moderate to severe fatty liver. The doctor recommended that I start treatment, otherwise it will affect my health. I heard from an advertisement that all liver diseases require antiviral treatment.Doctor's answer:
Fatty liver does not require antiviral treatment. Hepatitis is the condition that requires antiviral treatment. Fatty liver is not caused by the transmission of hepatitis virus; patients with simple fatty liver do not possess hepatitis virus in their bodies, so there is no need for antiviral treatment. Fatty liver is merely the result of excessive fat content within the liver, with a large number of fat cells filling the hepatocytes. It is a metabolic liver dysfunction caused by the accumulation of triglycerides, making it reversible. Once the excessive fat accumulated in the liver is completely eliminated, liver function can mostly return to normal, leaving no lasting aftereffects.