If someone is an alcoholic what diseases could they get in their liver?

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I know someone who was an alcoholic and then their liver stopped working right. It started bleeding and not working right. What kind of disease could this be if they were an alcoholic?
Alcoholics usually cirrhosis of the liver, esophageal varicies, ascites and vitamin deficiencies.

The bleeding comes from when they get ulcerations in the stomach, colon and esophagus.

They can also get very thin blood from liver diseases.

Read my link, it will spell it out for you.  (+ info)

How bad a disease is non alcoholic fatty liver disease?

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I am 21 and weigh 325 pounds. I have just been diagnosed with non alcoholic fatty liver disease. From what the doc has told me, my liver is about 12% heavier than it should be. He also said that it is obviously much larger than it should be but luckily, I don't have any liver scarring yet.
If you've been diagnosed with NAFLD it is a little different than the previous answer given who suggested NASH. NAFLD is when you have just a fatty liver, NASH is when the fatty liver has inflammation. Which you still may have. NAFLD can progress to NASH.
NAFLD is the most common cause of elevated liver tests. Fatty liver is the accumulation of triglycerides and other fats in the liver cells. In some patients, this may be accompanied by hepatic inflammation.
NAFLD is found in over 80% of patients who are obese. Fortunately, NAFLD is not normally life threatening and is reversible unless it progresses to a more severe stage of liver disease. So losing weight and keeping it off will improve your condition.
I wish you well and hope this helped.  (+ info)

Do all alcoholics develop alcoholic liver disease or liver damage beyond repair?

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How many do and how many don't if you are a woman are you definately going to develop alcoholic liver disease if you drink more than 1 or 2 drinks a day? are you more at risk if you drink a lot every day or can weekend binges cause it even if you do not drink during other days?
No. Any person that drinks alcohol will have some physiological effects from it. Most are mild and temporary. Of all alcoholics 10-15% develop cirrhosis, and from that 10-15%, more than half have a good 5 year survivability prognosis if abstinence is taken.

So the chances of cirrhosis are not strong for people born with normal functioning livers.

Women develop alcoholic liver disease twice as quickly as men due to metabolic differences between the sexes.  (+ info)

What are ways to treat alcoholic hepatitis of liver disease?

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If you say medicine...could you please explain the name and how it works specifically towards the liver

Thank you so much...
I know one thing we give alcoholics in the hospital is vitamins. Especially Niacin. The body of an alcoholic starts to lack the ability to digest vitamins, and alcoholics also don;t get adequate nutrition. So one important vitamin is Niacin that is important for brain and tissue health and is given as a supplement to suspected alcoholics.  (+ info)

Is alcoholic liver disease an urban legend?

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My sister's boyfriend told me that liver damage due to alcohol is actually a myth propagated by the Mormons, family-values oriented politicians and special interest groups such as MADD. Is this true?
Ha, tell that to my aunt Sarah who died of alcoholic cirrhosis. She turned yellow, blew up like a balloon as her liver shut down, died an extremely painful death.

Urban legend indeed!  (+ info)

What are the nutritional and dietry requirements for alcoholic liver disease?

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The most important is cutting out alcohol completely.  (+ info)

what is Alcoholic liver disease how do you get it and how do you prevent it?

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If you really stop and think about this question, I think you can figure it out. I know you can figure it out sara. Now put on your thinking cap and let's go figure.

Alcohol liver disease is when you get liver disease from drinking too much alcohol.
The way to prevent it is to not drink.

See you can figure these things out for yourself sometimes and you don't need to be a medical doctor to do it. I'm so proud of you sara. Now could everyone reading this encourage sara to think through these questions a bit and give her a big hand for working her way through this question. Tell her how proud you are of her.  (+ info)

What are the regulations to recieve a new liver if you are an alcoholic?

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Do you have to be sober for a certain amount of time or what? Only if the person is an alcoholic.
Each transplant center sets its own criteria.
Every center would require that an alcoholic be sober -- but the length of time would vary, as would the ways of determining sobriety.  (+ info)

I have two liver diseases and fibromyalgia: Is saccharomyces cerevisiai a danger to my healt?

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I read that it was a danger to the liver and bone marrow in certain cases?
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is widely used in baking, brewing, wine making, and biotechnology and previously has had GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status. Recent evidence indicates the involvement of S. cerevisiae in a range of superficial and systemic diseases. Numerous cases of S. cerevisiae-induced vaginitis have been documented as have cases of oropharyngeal infection. Potentially fatal systemic disease due to S. cerevisiae has been recorded in bone marrow transplant patients and in those immunocompromised as a result of cancer or AIDS. A number of studies have indicated that commercially available strains of S. cerevisiae may cause disease in certain individuals.

It seems more of a danger to the immunocompromised.
S. cerevisiae should now be regarded as an opportunistic pathogen, albeit of relatively low virulence  (+ info)

Once you have Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, is it for life or is there a cure or reversal?

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Does it continue to progress over time eventually causing liver failure?
There are different stages of Non Alcoholic
Fatty Liver disease. Some times people can
have fat around the outside of the liver and
it does not affect the function of the liver at
all. Others have fat that builds up in between
and in the cells of the liver and this causes a
problem. Some people are placed on a diet,
and this decreases the fat inside the liver and
it can reverse and the liver can heal.
Let me explain this clearer: The extra fat pushes
on the insides of the cells and places them
under stress. It is like going into a small room.
You have plenty of room while you are in their
yourself. Then others start to come in and as
they continue to come it...you are backed up
against the corner of it. Soon you are not able
to move around, your cannot get nourishment,
oxygen you need, and you will die unless you
can get through...which is now almost
impossible. That is what happens in the
liver cell. The fat blocks the things the cell
itself needs to exist and it also pushes the
nucleus of the cell out of position. The cell
becomes stressed, it can no longer function
the way it once did and it can die. What makes
it even worse on the cell...is when the cells
are damaged, it signals the immune system
to respond and that causes inflammation to
develop in the liver also and even more, faster
damage can happen then.

Follow closely anything the doctor may tell
you to do for your condition. Whether it
be losing weight or taking medication for
any inflammation that may develop or whatever
causes the liver to be this way.
If the condition can be reversed, he will see
this on future blood work you may have done.
Once the liver reaches the point that inflammation has progressed to the point that
the cells of the liver die off...this can lead
to an incurable disease known as cirrhosis
of the liver. It is best to catch this early on
so it can be reversed before getting to this
point. Cirrhosis is scar tissue that forms in
the liver because the cells start to die off.
This scar tissue can block nourishment and
oxygen from getting to the healthy cells and
they can die also.

So the answer to your question is that sometimes it can be completely reversed and
other times it may progress onward depending
on whether it is treated in time.

Here is a very good link to learn more about
this disease
http://www.medicinenet.com/fatty_liver/article.htm
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