To recover from alcoholic fatty liver abstinence from alcohol is the first and most crucial, but how long it takes to recover depends on the degree of liver damage. If it is a transient acute liver injury, after the alcohol is metabolized normally through the liver, the liver cells gradually repair and may return to normal in a week or so at the earliest. However, if the patient has been drinking heavily for a long time and the alcoholic fatty liver has reached cirrhosis, or a more severe cirrhotic decompensation stage, even if he or she stops drinking alcohol usually cannot recover immediately and can only temporarily relieve the symptoms of cirrhosis, while liver preservation and symptomatic treatment is needed, especially for comorbidities. At this time, even after treatment is completed, you should not drink a lot of alcohol again, otherwise alcoholic fatty liver will be aggravated again.