Don't drink alcohol! But fatty liver fatty liver injury is not really terrible

In the international bariatric center the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, one of the friends to come to consult the most frequently asked question is: "can you still drink after the operation?".

Drinking habits of long-term people will feel fatigue, fatigue, liver pain and other symptoms, appearance of fatty liver, liver cell damage. The main manifestation of hepatocellular damage in long-term elevated transaminase of liver function index for liver fibrosis days and months multiplying the intrinsic performance, and when the number of liver fibrosis cells than normal liver cells, liver function gradually lost and the occurrence of liver cirrhosis and even hepatocellular carcinoma. Fatty liver on liver cancer has a role in promoting, will increase the probability of canceration, therefore, for patients with fatty liver, fatty liver is not really terrible, but liver injury.

Fatty liver is fat in liver cells produces too much disease, although this time liver cell itself is intact, but its function will slowly fall. Responsible for detoxification, liver metabolism, bile secretion, immune defense functions, 60% is the function of reserves, will lead to fatty liver reserve function decline. Under normal circumstances, will not affect the health, but when the special circumstances, such as infection or ingestion of poison, the need for liver detoxification, with fatty liver will be more easily than normal people into severe.

According to statistics, fatty liver without scientific treatment, about 25% may develop into liver fibrosis, 1.5% to 8% may develop cirrhosis. This is because a large number of long-term accumulation of fat in liver cells, the blood supply, oxygen supply and its metabolism is affected, causing massive hepatic cell swelling, inflammation and necrosis, will eventually lead to liver fiber hyperplasia and pseudolobule.

From the non alcoholic fatty liver disease to liver cancer only three steps:

Simple fatty liver, steatohepatitis, liver cirrhosis, liver cancer

The first step: the development of fatty hepatitis

Liver fat after the development of simple fatty liver, steatohepatitis, simple fatty liver continues to increase, liver becomes a warehouse, enter the body fat covering in the liver, the liver seems to wear a thick coat, dyspnea, nutrition to PS served, the liver will start an anti inflammation, this is fatty hepatitis.

The second step: the development of cirrhosis

The inflammation continues to attack, it will stimulate the fibrous tissue hyperplasia in the liver, "cotton" thickened gradually hardens, that is to the liver cirrhosis.

The third step: the development of hepatocellular carcinoma

If the patient has cirrhosis, diabetes, obesity, high blood lipids, endocrine disorders, body environment and abnormal function of the immune system will cause the immune system to monitor tumor function decline, not eliminating aberrant cell abnormalities, and cancer.