Correspondent Fu Xuan Yangzhou released reporter Lu Kangjie
March 18 is the 22nd “National Liver Love Day”, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University Deputy Director and Deputy Chief Physician Tao Lide talked to everyone about the popular science knowledge of alcoholic liver.
Long-term social drinking
A 29-year-old boy was diagnosed with alcoholic liver
Citizen Xiao Zhang graduated from college and worked in a company in sales, and not long ago became a sales manager. Because of work, Xiao Zhang participates in social events all the year round and drinks 3-4 times a week almost. Originally, because of his youth, Xiao Zhang didn’t have any special reaction except for the occasional vomiting. Not long ago, Xiao Zhang was found to have alcoholic liver during his physical examination. “I usually drink about half a catty at a time, and sometimes a catty of white wine.” Xiao Zhang said that he didn’t feel anything special before, and it seems that his body has indeed been abnormal in the past one or two months.
In the past month, he has often suffered from bleeding gums, inflammation of the corners of his mouth, edema of his lower extremities, and frequent pain in his right upper abdomen. But he thought it was too tired at first, but he didn’t get better after a week of rest. Afterwards, he took part in a physical examination at the physical examination center of the Affiliated Hospital of Yangda University at his own expense. The doctor told him that these symptoms were caused by typical alcoholic liver disease. If you continue to drink alcohol without timely detection and treatment, the burden on the liver will increase, which will easily lead to fibrosis in the liver, even cause cirrhosis, and even liver cancer in severe cases.
These people are easily targeted by alcoholic liver
Have these symptoms in the early stage
What is alcoholic liver? According to Tao Lide, deputy director and deputy chief physician of the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Yangda University, alcoholic liver is mainly a pathological state caused by damage to liver cells caused by long-term heavy drinking. The early clinical manifestations of patients may be fatigue, fatigue and other symptoms; severe cases may have liver function damage. Liver function damage is manifested as elevated transaminases in patients; severe fever, low-grade fever, and decreased resistance may occur; if no treatment is done, it may gradually transform into alcoholic liver cirrhosis, etc.
To make matters worse, alcoholic liver disease can lead to fatty liver disease, also known as alcoholic fatty liver disease. Fatty liver is classified into mild, moderate and severe according to the severity. Early mild fatty liver can be reversed. If moderate-to-severe fatty liver is not treated effectively or early, the condition will further aggravate, from fatty liver to liver cirrhosis, or even more serious consequences.
What kind of people are prone to alcoholic liver disease? According to Tao Lide, alcoholic liver disease is common in patients who drink heavily for a long time. Usually, these people are prone to alcoholic liver disease: patients with poor physical condition and low immunity; patients with underlying diseases such as hypertension and diabetes; patients who use some drugs because of their low immunity; acetaldehyde dehydrogenation in the body The content of enzyme or alcohol dehydrogenase is relatively low, and patients who used to drink alcohol easily get drunk.
Many women drink more easily than men to damage the liver
Alcoholic liver can be prevented in this way
There are two main enzymes involved in the metabolism of alcohol through the liver, namely B. Aldehyde dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase. If the levels of these two enzymes in the patient’s body are relatively high, the liver’s ability to detoxify alcohol may be relatively high. This is why some people appear to be heavy drinkers, while others get drunk as soon as they drink.
Of course, women and men have different levels of these two enzymes in their bodies. Because some women have different physical functions from men, they may show that they are harmed by alcohol to a certain extent, which is easy to cause alcohol damage, but it is not absolute.
Alcoholic liver can be prevented by the following points
Abstinence is the first key
How to prevent alcoholic liver? According to Tao Lide, the cause of alcoholic liver is caused by long-term heavy drinking. First, you should stop drinking. Coupled with lifestyle changes, such as emotional regulation, reasonable diet, and proper physical exercise, it can be improved, specifically:
Abstain from alcohol. Drinking alcohol can lead to the occurrence of various diseases, especially the damage to the liver, which is the root cause of alcoholic liver. Therefore, during the treatment of the disease and after the disease has recovered, it must be absolutely forbidden to drink alcohol. In clinical practice, it is not uncommon for the disease to recur due to inability to quit drinking, and it is not uncommon for the disease to worsen. If you can completely quit drinking and eliminate the cause, you can improve the treatment effect, promote the recovery of the disease, and prevent the recurrence and deterioration of the disease.
Eat well. First of all, the diet of patients with liver disease should be based on the principle of eating more vegetarian food, should be light, avoid greasy, nutritious, easy to digest, etc., eat less and more meals, and taboo cold, sweet and greasy, hot and phlegm-producing products. Secondly, table salt has the disadvantage of stagnant and water-boosting, so people with alcohol swelling should be given a low-salt and low-salt diet. Those with a tendency to bleed should avoid alcohol, tobacco, and spicy and hot products; those with obvious signs of dampness and turbidity should be avoided especially if they are fatty and greasy; if there is a mental disorder and the consciousness is unclear, the meat should be strictly controlled and the supply of meat should be strictly controlled. Fresh liquid food.
In a cheerful mood. Diseases of the liver and gallbladder tend to be stagnant, so it is better to take the stagnation strip. If the relationship is not smooth and the spirit is depressed, the qi will be chaotic and the yin and yang will be out of balance. Induce or exacerbate disease symptoms. Therefore, patients should be helped to overcome and eliminate anger, depression, doubt, sadness, fear and other negative emotions, establish confidence in the treatment of the disease, and promote the recovery of the disease.
Keep moving. Regular physical exercise can enhance physical fitness and reduce or prevent the occurrence of diseases. During the course of the disease, appropriate exercise methods should be selected according to the severity of the disease and the strength of the physique.
If the damage has reached a certain level, drug intervention may be required, or treatment by a specialist may be required. solve.
Edit: Beaming