Protection of the liver to drink less beer

With the improvement of living standards, more and more people are now drinking. Just at the people cried “dry, dry, dry” at the same time, alcohol-induced liver disease this potential killer are looming ahead, becoming the second largest after the viral liver disease. The reporter learned from the recently held second session of the Lingnan Love 2008 Festival of alcoholic liver disease liver expert forum was informed that studies have shown that if more than 5 consecutive years for more than 48 grams per day of alcohol intake, 32% of people have varying degrees of alcoholic liver disease.

 According to the Guangdong Lingnan Institute of Liver Yang Jiong, executive deputy director of the introduction, more than 5 consecutive years of alcohol intake of 48 grams per day for more than 32% of people will have different degrees of alcoholic liver disease. The formula for the calculation of alcohol intake: alcohol intake × × 0.8 = intake of alcohol. Beer, for example: 750ml × 0.08 × 0.8 = 48 grams a day, drinking a bottle of beer, the risk of suffering from alcoholic liver will be greatly increased. China’s current prevalence rate of alcohol-induced liver disease 4.34%, male and female prevalence of 8:1. In addition, the Institute survey of more than 300 patients, alcoholic liver disease was significantly younger, accounting for about emerging cirrhosis Liu Cheng, of which 80% of patients 40 years old, the youngest only in patients with alcoholic liver 26.

 This reporter learned that, by the “no alcohol not a seat,” the impact of traditional wine culture and social needs of many people to become alcohol-dependent persons. Patients often say that the sentence was “do not drink No, ah, no way, too entertaining,” the crowd in the 97% of respondents who know that “drinking can damage the liver”, may still helpless in eight adult drinking. Yang Jiong stressed that, regardless of the size of alcohol consumption, drinking the white wine, red wine or beer, for the already suffer from hepatitis B viruses is the liver, is a worse blow. For hepatitis B patients, the alcohol is equal to suicide, for alcoholic liver disease, there is no one drug is more effective than abstinence. Alcohol under the premise in accordance with China’s “alcoholic liver disease clinics Guide” to be an appropriate drug treatment, most lesions can be reversed. For a “drunkard” is concerned, any time, drinking is not too late. For the market, many “anti-alcohol Liver” products, the experts call it composition, mostly stimulants, vitamins and amino acids, providing only the role of comfort and ease headaches and can not hangover, let alone protecting liver, only the alcohol is the protection of the only way to the liver.

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