National Liver Day is celebrated on March 18 every year, and the theme of Liver Day 2013 is: For the love of the liver, let’s stop drinking for a day. So what damage does drinking do to the liver? An Yong, Department of Liver Diseases, Shandong Qianfo Mountain Hospital Long-term excessive alcohol consumption can cause alcoholic liver disease, including alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, through repeated fatty degeneration, necrosis and regeneration of liver cells by ethanol itself and its derivative acetaldehyde. In China, with the improvement of living conditions, alcoholism has a tendency to increase, and although there are no precise statistics on the incidence of alcoholic liver disease, it is not uncommon. Therefore, it is important to correctly understand alcohol-induced liver damage, and to diagnose and prevent it in a timely manner. As a hepatitis virus carrier, you should pay more attention to the damage of alcohol to the liver and do not drink alcohol.