Experts point out: fatty liver, alcohol liver health threat to young adults

        In the China liver disease sponsored by the association of health education health education cooperation center construction project launching ceremony, the experts provide new information, after years of efforts, China's hepatitis B virus disease basically under control, the incidence rate decreased significantly. But at the same time, the incidence of fatty liver, alcohol, liver and other liver diseases is rising, which has become a serious threat to the life and health of our people. In view of this situation, on how to prevent fatty liver, alcohol liver and other issues, the famous liver disease expert Professor Cui Zhenyu published his own views.

Fatty liver and alcoholic liver basically concomitant disease, is a way of life, the most effective way to deal with this kind of disease is not treated, but change the way of life. Professor Cui treat this kind of disease, this is the more than and 80 year old professor, have reason to actively participate in various activities of the publicity and education of liver disease.

        He said that last year, China held the first national alcohol liver seminar in Nanjing, which is sufficient to illustrate the severity of the disease in china. China is a big country of liver disease, according to the 2002 National Health Department of liver disease research group statistics show that in 2002 the number of hepatitis B infection in the country for 75 million people, ranking first in all kinds of infectious diseases. But from the trend, because in recent years China has spread of hepatitis B vaccine, promote the use of disposable syringe needle, and to improve the social economic and health level, the prevalence rate of the incidence of viral hepatitis, HBV carriers have shown a sharp downward trend. Only in the case of Beijing, in the past, the incidence of hepatitis B has reached 4%, and is now only 0.3%, while at the same time, other liver disease, fatty liver, liver cirrhosis and other drugs, and the incidence of an increase of 17.8%, reached 50 million, has become a threat to a serious social problem in our country people's health of life the.

        In the past, fatty liver, more common in developed countries, the disease incidence in China increased rapidly, and improve people's living standard in our country in recent years, there are great relationship between large intake of high fat and high glucose diet. Professor Cui has been engaged in clinical medicine for many years and has rich experience in medical treatment. Now the most let him feel the worry is that many people do not pay attention to the fatty liver, alcoholic liver, fatty liver, alcohol liver found, as long as the situation is not serious or not. He said the occurrence of fatty liver, alcohol liver is a gradual process, because there is no special symptoms in the early, it is easy to be ignored, and later may develop into liver cirrhosis, liver cancer and other dangerous diseases. The clinical manifestations of alcoholic liver disease are various, usually in the early stage of fatty liver, which can be developed into alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic liver fibrosis and alcoholic cirrhosis. In severe alcoholism can induce a wide range of liver cell necrosis or liver function failure. Statistics show that 60% of alcoholics with fatty liver; 30% alcoholic fatty liver could develop into liver fibrosis; liver cirrhosis can be transformed into more than 10%.

        In recent years, the incidence of our liver fatty liver, alcohol rising rate, many medical institutions to strengthen the research on this aspect, the Chinese Medical Association to set up a special liver fatty liver and alcoholic liver disease group, and achieved certain results, determine the diagnosis criteria of alcoholic liver disease, such as the alcoholic hepatitis histological characteristics described as: the obvious swelling of liver cells showed ballooning degeneration, particularly the centrilobular liver cells, ballooning degeneration of liver cells sometimes showed huge mitochondria, obvious characteristics in the medical treatment of alcoholic liver disease is different from other liver diseases. Fatty liver, alcoholic liver disease has been used as a kind of disease, which has attracted great attention from the medical field.

        Professor Cui said, now in particular, to appeal to young people, to strengthen the sense of self protection. Some people rely on good health, long-term drinking, that does not affect the health. Professor Cui said that due to the characteristics of the liver organ, the pathogenesis of liver disease is also quite complex. But regardless of viral hepatitis or chemical liver injury, because viruses are not directly induce hepatocellular lesions, but the body's immune system attacks by virus invasion of liver cells, the immune system and the antibodies produced by the body to neutralize the virus the virus disappeared. Therefore, if the hepatitis B virus infection of the human immune system is normal, it will be able to produce antibodies in a timely manner to eliminate the virus, for the destruction of the liver cells can be recovered through their own repair. Damage while drinking the body's immune system is very obvious, is arch-criminal many HBV carriers to chronic hepatitis, some people no clinical detection of hepatitis B virus, but a large number of long-term drinking, also makes some people become patients with alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatic fibrosis and severe hepatitis.

        The so-called hangover medicine appears in society now, Professor Cui believes that without a hangover medicine proved to be safe and effective, even if some drugs can ease the symptoms of the drinkers, but can not change the fact that drinking caused damage to liver, just drink less less damage, excessive drinking and binge drinking damage the extent of the damage is different.

        In particular, he emphasized the pathogenesis of liver diseases, to protect the liver, liver disease prevention, to change the way of life, improve the immune system. In the past, we have paid more attention to the treatment of liver diseases, ignored the prevention, especially the advocate of a healthy lifestyle, in the future a considerable period of time, healthy lifestyle education should be included in the prevention of liver disease