Alcoholic liver is short for alcoholic liver disease, which is mainly due to a chronic toxic liver damage that occurs after people drink alcohol for a long time, resulting in continuous damage to liver cells.
Many patients with alcoholic liver disease do not detect the disease at an early stage, because liver cells have a strong ability to repair themselves and regenerate. When the liver is damaged too badly and the compensatory function cannot be played normally, the patient will have symptoms such as right upper quadrant discomfort, fatigue, loss of appetite, jaundice and so on.
Alcoholic liver and hepatitis B, fatty liver, will cause continuous damage to liver function, as long as the patient does not pay attention to the disease, actively receive treatment, the condition will further develop, the liver may appear fibrosis, and then cause cirrhosis, when the further development of cirrhosis will form liver cancer, so that the patient's life is threatened.
Therefore, if people who love to drink alcohol want to prevent alcoholic liver, they must do the following four things.
1. Quit drinking in time
People who do not want to suffer from alcoholic liver should quit drinking in time. For some people who love to drink, quitting alcohol is a more difficult thing. But for the sake of liver health, everyone should strengthen the awareness of abstinence from alcohol.
For example, from the beginning, you can reduce the amount of alcohol you drink, then reduce the number of drinks, and finally do not drink at all. Abstaining from alcohol requires perseverance and perseverance, and everyone must control themselves and withstand temptations, so that they can be insulated from alcohol and keep the liver away from alcohol.
If you can't quit drinking, you have to drink less. In particular, some people who usually like to drink liquor with a higher degree should reduce the amount of alcohol they drink, so as to reduce the stimulation of the liver.
2. Do not have an empty stomach when drinking
Anyone should avoid fasting when drinking alcohol, because drinking alcohol on an empty stomach will lead to the rapid absorption of alcohol by the body, resulting in different degrees of damage to the gastric mucosa, intestinal mucosa, liver, and kidneys, and it is easy to cause alcohol poisoning for a long time, so that alcoholic liver disease occurs.
In the case of having to drink alcohol, everyone can drink some milk, juice, water or eat some food in advance to avoid excessive emptying of the stomach, and at the same time reduce the burden of alcohol metabolism in the liver, reduce the stimulation and damage to the liver and stomach, intestines and other parts.
3. After drinking, you should dissolve the wine in time
Want to reduce the degree of damage to the liver by alcohol, everyone can drink some strong tea in moderation after drinking alcohol to help the body dissolve alcohol, while also playing a role in diluting alcohol and blood, accelerating the body's metabolism, increasing the number of urination, so that alcohol is quickly excreted.
It should be noted that drinks with high sugar content should be avoided after drinking, so as not to speed up the metabolism of alcohol and aggravate the stimulation of the liver.
Drinking alcohol hurts the liver, I hope that anyone can try to drink less or not drink, in addition, in the usual to develop a good lifestyle eating habits, such as not staying up late, emotional stability, eat more vegetables and fruits, so that the liver is less stimulated by adverse factors, has been associated with health.