Alcoholic liver disease

Alcohol-related liver disease or ARLD is a common health issue in the United States that can lead to further complications or premature death. The contraction of this disease is influenced or caused by genetics, the environment, or even social acceptability of alcohol use. Nutrition plays a vast role in the factors of ARLD because the liver is the focal site for alcohol metabolism. This can cause complications in the metabolism of other essential nutrients in the liver. A lot of alcoholics become malnourished and cannot absorb essential nutrients for their body to function. They experience vitamin and mineral deficiencies because of the lack of protein and carbohydrates in their daily diet. An absence of these nutrients on top of alcohol consumption…

Alcohol destroys the body The liver is a vital complex organ with many functioning roles that keep the body in constant equilibrium. It holds a great role with digesting, absorbing, and transporting nutrients within the body. Liver disease is a serious matter that is faced in the United States and many other parts of the world. There are various ways that dietary nutrition can harm this much needed organ, but the culprit that will be discussed is alcohol. According to Blake J., Munoz K., & Volpe…

in God. My dad´s not just my hero, but an American hero. When he was 18 years old he went to boot camp and joined the army. He remained very tough in the army, and always is telling me and my brother stories about some of the things they had to do like running 1 mile in 5 minutes. Which inspires me not to quit when I'm ever thinking about quitting. Although he never had to go into war thankfully, he was always ready and really is an american hero. He didn't know it yet but the strength from…

My mom soon has been getting calls from Alcohol Anonymous that her son hasn’t been attending the seminars and wanted to see if everything was all right. My mom was eager to look for me, while I arrived to a broken motel to indulge in my favorite type of potion that will help replenish the obsessions of this young woman. My liver couldn’t give anymore, and I passed out feeling this progressing feeling of pain and misery in my liver. I soon layed down on the floor, soon as I knew it I was in a…

Being addicted to the consumption of alcohol liquor is known as alcoholism. Alcoholism is classified as both a mental and physical disease. Abusing the substance is self-determinant at first but over time becomes a habit, causing the person to lose control of how much to consume, thus becoming an alcoholic. Even though the cause of alcoholism is still unknown, it is known that dependency happens when you drink so much that chemical changes in the brain occur. These chemical changes in the brain…

from the liver, but it is also produced in many other tissues. GGT is primarily carried with lipoproteins and albumin in serum. The levels of GGT is determined by various factors such as alcohol intake, body fat content, plasma lipid/ lipoproteins and glucose levels, and also various medications (Whitfield, 2001, p.263-3553). As noted by Das, Nayak, and Vasudevan(2003, p.111-118) there are other biochemical markers that is also associated with alcohol such as Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST)…

Alcoholism can be defined as a condition that prevents people from being able to control their alcohol consumption. A disease can be defined as an abnormal condition of a structure or function of one part of the body that affects the whole body and prevents it from functioning properly. Alcohol and disease can be analyzed together making the statement that alcoholism is a disease. Alcohol consumption can have a drastic effect on almost every organ of the body. Drinking too much can cause…

cirrhosis is a condition where the normal liver tissue are replaced by scar tissue after being damage causing the remaining liver tissue to lose its normal arrangement. Alcoholism, viral hepatitis B or C, inflammation of the liver in long-term (chronic) and iron overload in the body are common risk factors that linked to cirrhosis. Viral…

small list of those that are matches arise. Conferring this system, liver decisions break down into medical urgency and distance from donor. ( UNOS Matching organs, 2015) Due to the viability of the donor liver only lasting a few hours. This method has been the standard for the ethical treatment of organ allocation. UNOS uses the medical entitlement method to allocate organs, a fair and balanced system that benefits the patients in need and is always up to date with the latest…

This patient’s history of alcohol abuse directly relates to the development of this patient’s end stage liver complications. The patient’s alcoholic cirrhosis denotes that the patient has developed this irreversible disease over the span of years that have gone undetected and untreated, that begun with alcoholic hepatitis and progressed all the way to alcoholic cirrhosis, due to the overconsumption of alcohol and his socioeconomic status (homeless). Alcoholic hepatitis is characterized by…