How is alcoholic liver diagnosed

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Alcohol does great harm to the liver. People who often drink alcohol tend to suffer from alcoholic liver when they are middle-aged and old. This is the case with my uncle. He should be troubled. After taking medicine for a period of time, he has not improved. Let's talk about how to diagnose alcoholic liver!

How is alcoholic liver diagnosed

First: the diagnosis of alcoholic liver is generally based on symptoms. The symptoms of patients with alcoholic liver are very obvious. The most common feature of alcoholic liver is that the symptoms of digestive tract are more serious. The main symptoms are nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, fatigue, aggravation of liver pain, etc. Severe symptoms will also be manifested as acute severe hepatitis or liver failure and so on.

Second: most patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis are about 50 years old, and 80% of them have a history of drinking alcohol for 5 to 10 years. In addition to the general symptoms of liver cirrhosis, the symptoms of these patients are often manifested as malnutrition, anemia, liver palmar, neuritis, muscular atrophy, parotid gland enlargement, testicular atrophy, etc.

Third: alcoholic liver, also known as alcoholic fatty liver, is a common liver disease, this disease is mainly caused by long-term drinking, so the prone group of alcoholic liver is mainly long-term drinking male population.

matters needing attention

Alcoholic liver disease can be prevented. If you don't drink at ordinary times, it's good for the liver, but it's basically impossible to completely achieve this. Therefore, we should try to drink less refined drinks. And after drinking to supplement high protein high vitamin diet, at the same time take anti alcohol drugs such as Pueraria.