How to identify alcoholic liver disease

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My father loves to drink very much. He drinks a couple of Baijiu on almost every meal. Sometimes he can drink for a long time. This is not a good time to say that he is not well, especially in the liver. We all suspect that there is alcoholic liver. Today, let me talk about how to identify alcoholic liver disease.

How to identify alcoholic liver disease

The first step: have a long-term drinking history, generally more than 5 years, clinical symptoms are non-specific, can be asymptomatic, or have right upper abdominal pain, loss of appetite, fatigue, weight loss, jaundice, etc. With the aggravation of the disease, there may be neuropsychiatric symptoms and spider nevus, liver palms and other manifestations.

Step 2: serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (AL). T) The levels of serum creatinine, gamma glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT), total bilirubin (TBIL), prothrombin time (PT), mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and glucose deficient transferrin (CDT) increased.

The third step: mild fatty liver is generally asymptomatic, moderate and severe fatty liver can have similar manifestations of hepatitis, such as general discomfort, burnout, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, abdominal distension, etc. The examination of alcoholic liver is found by abnormal liver function, and can also be ruled out by liver B ultrasound or CT examination.

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There is only one way to treat alcoholic liver is to stop drinking, and then carry out liver protection treatment. Generally, after about one month of alcohol and liver protection treatment, the intrahepatic fat is reduced, and the mild can be cured for a few months, and the severe can be cured for one to two years. We must stop drinking, otherwise it is useless to use more drugs.