Wine is not just the liver injury
It is often said: a small amount of alcohol useful, alcohol can stimulate blood circulation, prevention of coronary heart disease. However, the meaning of “small amount of” alcohol experts pointed out that the so-called small amount of alcohol is less than 20 grams of alcohol per day. However, for liver disease patients, they should ban alcohol. This is because a small amount of alcohol on the liver in patients with liver disease can also cause very serious damage. The reason is:
1. Alcohol can directly cause liver damage. After drinking alcohol, ethanol directly into the body’s blood circulation, was the body of the alcohol dehydrogenase oxidation and decomposition, forming pairs of human liver toxicity of acetaldehyde great. Under normal circumstances, acetaldehyde may be the human body decomposition of aldehyde dehydrogenase as a non-toxic substances excreted. However, patients with liver disease contained within the liver aldehyde dehydrogenase has been considerably reduced, some of acetaldehyde can not be completely broken down, and can damage liver cells directly into the liver. The more alcohol consumption, his body the higher the content of acetaldehyde, the liver damage is also more severe.
2. Alcohol into the human body can inhibit the regeneration of liver cells. Studies that liver cells have a strong regenerative capacity, even though the liver in patients with liver disease are swelling of liver cells, liver cells, necrosis, etc., in varying degrees of pathological changes; but with normal function of liver cells to repair damaged liver will continue to continuously regenerated. Alcohol enters the body, may inhibit the repair of liver cells and increased the degree of liver damage in patients with hepatitis.
3. Chronic hepatitis patients with hepatitis C virus in the body almost all the activity. Clinicians commonly used antiviral drugs, such as interferon and other viruses that inhibit the activities of the body to control their condition. Alcohol enters the body after the blood can significantly inhibit the role of antiviral drugs, thus greatly weakening the effectiveness of anti-viral drug, allowing clinicians to have this increase in liver disease treatment, so that is not conducive to liver disease in rehabilitation, will also increase the financial burden of patients and their families.
4. Alcohol can damage the body’s defense system. Reduce the body’s immune function, and through the human body “signal system” induction, so that a series of liver disease, which will ultimately enable part of the liver disease liver cancer cells, while suffering from liver cancer.
The above theory has fully demonstrated that patients with liver disease alcohol only to their liver and body burden and trouble, harm rather than good, so patients with liver disease must be prohibited alcohol.