Long-term alcohol consumption should be alert to alcoholic liver disease Summer is coming, many people like to get together to drink beer, alcoholism abounds in major hospitals on the emergency room, most of the young office workers, after work, a few people to get together, the summer heat can be dispelled and can relax, happy when not drunk. Unbeknownst to them, long-term excessive alcohol consumption will increase the chances of alcoholic liver disease. Recently, a 50-year-old citizen Wang Hu (a pseudonym) due to excessive drinking, discomfort, was sent to Binzhou City People’s Hospital for treatment. Zuo Kai introduction, the examination found that transaminases particularly high, and accompanied by severe jaundice symptoms, the indicators show that its liver function is seriously impaired, showing liver failure performance, check the hepatitis virus markers are negative. Asked Wang Hu’s family that the patient has a long history of alcohol consumption, almost every day. The patient in the doctor’s guidance to quit drinking, after a period of treatment, has now recovered. Zuo Kai introduced, there is a long-term history of alcohol consumption of middle-aged people, if a period of time in the case of binge drinking, very easy to trigger alcoholic liver disease. Young office workers feel unwell after drinking, to the hospital to do a lot of checkups, most of them think it is a large amount of alcohol damage to the stomach, due to the young people’s body is relatively strong, take some medication or pay attention to the diet of the condition will be relieved, will not realize that the liver is also damaged, usually in the process of physical examination only to find out that they have got alcoholic liver disease, if you do not find out in time to pay attention to the condition of the alcoholic cessation, alcoholic liver disease is very easy to deteriorate, so the young people are very likely to have alcoholic liver disease. If the condition is not detected in time and attention is paid to quitting alcohol, alcoholic liver disease will be very easy to deteriorate. Therefore, when young office workers drink alcohol, they must pay attention to the amount of pure alcohol consumed every day and be alert to the occurrence of alcoholic fatty liver disease. Quitting drinking is the first step of treatment Alcoholic fatty liver patients generally have better results after treatment, usually about 1 month after quitting drinking and treatment, the fat in the liver decreases, and disappears after a few months in mild cases, and disappears after one to two years in severe cases. Alcoholic fatty liver into alcoholic steatohepatitis, the treatment effect is worse, but if you can quit drinking in time and hospitalization, most of them can be recovered, and the mortality rate is only 1.5% -8%. When the alcoholic fatty liver deteriorates into alcoholic cirrhosis treatment is more difficult, according to statistics about 50% of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis died within 5 years. 5% of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis may be transformed into liver cancer. Alcoholic fatty liver is completely reversible in most patients, and usually disappears gradually after quitting drinking. However, if excessive drinking for a long period of time, it can cause repeated fatty degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, and eventually develop into alcoholic hepatitis and alcoholic cirrhosis, which can jeopardize one’s life in serious cases. Therefore, alcoholic liver disease should be prevented and treated early, and after suffering from alcoholic fatty liver disease, alcohol should be quit in time and treated in time in order to stop it from developing in a bad direction. Clinical manifestations Zuo Kai introduced, alcoholic liver disease includes a variety of conditions, alcoholic fatty liver is actually a clinical type of alcoholic liver disease. Most patients do not have obvious symptoms, a few patients will feel loss of appetite, nausea, abdominal distension, liver discomfort. However, patients mostly think that these symptoms are stomach discomfort caused by drinking alcohol, and the symptoms of alcoholic fatty liver will be ignored. The clinical manifestations of alcoholic fatty liver are directly proportional to the degree of fatty infiltration of the liver. Clinically, hepatomegaly is the most common sign. A few patients may have mild jaundice. Severe patients may have ascites and lower extremity edema, and occasionally splenomegaly. Some patients can be accompanied by vitamin deficiency manifestations, such as peripheral neuritis, lingual inflammation, xerostomia, skin ecchymosis and so on. If patients do not find out in time that they have alcoholic fatty liver and continue to drink a lot of alcohol, symptoms such as jaundice may appear, which seriously affects the diet, and the patient’s body will gradually lose weight. Over time, it will develop from hepatitis to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and even severe alcoholic hepatitis. Doctors teach you how to prevent Zuo Kai, chronic alcoholism is the main causative factor of alcoholic liver disease, and he believes that beer and liquor on the human liver is the same damage, the size of the damage depends on the amount of pure alcohol intake per day. Studies have found that almost everyone who drinks more than 60g of alcohol per day suffers from fatty liver. In China, when a person has a history of drinking alcohol for more than five years, it is easy to appear corresponding symptoms or liver function abnormalities, we should be highly suspicious of alcoholic liver disease patients. Currently there is no effective way to relieve alcohol, if you drink a lot of food before drinking, you can slow down the body’s absorption of alcohol, but long-term alcohol consumption is still very damaging to the liver. Once a person is diagnosed with alcoholic fatty liver disease, he or she should stop drinking immediately and take medication on time according to the doctor’s requirements. In this way, the condition will be controlled in time, otherwise it will develop into fatty hepatitis, cirrhosis and other incurable lesions.