Can I drink alcohol if my liver is not in good condition

Everyone knows that drinking alcohol damages the liver because more than 90% of the alcohol is metabolized in the liver. If you drink excessively for a long time, it will not only cause alcoholic liver disease, but also cause a variety of liver diseases. People with poor liver function usually need to strictly abstain from alcohol, otherwise alcohol will aggravate the inflammation of the liver, damage liver cells, and eventually lead to serious liver disease, such as alcoholic cirrhosis or even liver cancer.

1. The main component of wine is alcohol, which can be quickly absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. About 90% of the alcohol is metabolized in the liver. The alcohol dehydrogenase in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes catalyzes ethanol to produce acetaldehyde. Both ethanol and acetaldehyde have toxic effects that directly stimulate and damage liver cells, causing liver cell degeneration and necrosis, leading to alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic liver fibrosis, alcoholic cirrhosis and alcoholic fatty liver. Extremely severe alcoholic cirrhosis and alcoholic fatty liver can also lead to death.

2. The liver has limited ability to process alcohol. For a healthy person weighing 60 kg, the liver can process 7.5 grams of alcohol per hour, or about 180 grams in 24 hours. The liver cannot handle any more than this amount. Alcoholic fatty liver disease: Among the histological changes of alcoholic liver disease, alcoholic fatty liver disease appears the earliest and has the highest incidence. It cannot be distinguished morphologically from fatty liver caused by other reasons, so the diagnosis must rely on clinical data. Under low power microscope, if fatty degeneration and fat storage of hepatocytes occupy 1/3 to 1/2 of the liver lobule, it is mild fatty liver; if fatty degeneration and fat storage of hepatocytes occupy 1/2 to 2/3 of the liver lobule, it is moderate fatty liver; if fatty degeneration and fat storage of hepatocytes occupy more than 2/3 of the liver lobule, it is severe fatty liver. Some may present as a foamy, special type of droplet-type fatification. For hepatitis patients, liver function has been damaged, the activities of various enzymes involved in ethanol metabolism have been reduced, and the liver's detoxification function has been reduced.

3. Alcoholic fatty liver is completely treatable for many patients. Generally, fatty liver will gradually disappear after quitting drinking. However, if you drink excessively for a long time, it can cause fatty degeneration and necrosis of liver cells, develop into alcoholic hepatitis and alcoholic cirrhosis, and in severe cases it can be life-threatening. Patients with fatty liver may also suffer sudden death as a result of multiple encephalopathy and pulmonary fat embolism.

4. Drinking alcohol can cause many diseases, especially liver damage, which is the main cause of alcoholic liver disease. Therefore, drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited during the treatment of the disease and after recovery. In daily treatment, there are many cases where the disease relapses or worsens due to inability to quit drinking, so we should take this as a warning. If you can completely quit drinking and eliminate the cause of the disease, you can improve the treatment effect, promote recovery, prevent the recurrence, deterioration or transformation of the disease, and ultimately restore health.