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Thursday 6 March 2014

Alcoholic Hepatitis

Alcoholic Hepatitis


Ethanol, mostly in alcoholic beverages, is a significant cause of hepatitis. Usually alcoholic hepatitis comes after a period of increased alcohol consumption. Alcoholic hepatitis IH characterized by a variable constellation of symptoms, which may include feeling unwell, enlargement of the liver, development of fluid in the abdomen ascites, and modest tlev.ilion of liver blood tests. Alcoholic hepatitis can vary In mi mild with only liver test elevation to severe liver InlLunmation with development of jaundice, prolonged prnllirombin time, and liver failure. Severe cases are prized by either obtundation (dulled consciousness) cOmbination of elevated bilirubin levels and prolonged the mortality rate in both categories is within 30 days of onset. AlCholic hepatitis is distinct from cirrhosis caused by Alcohol consumption. Alcoholic hepatitis can occur with chronic alcoholic liver disease and alcoholic . Alcoholic hepatitis by itself does not lead TO cirrhosis is more common in patients with long consumption.

HOW DO YOU GET HEPATITIS?


A person can develop hepatitis if they contract one of the viruses that can cause liver inflammation, or as a result of exposure to substances that can cause hepatitis - alcohol, fungal toxins and certain medicines. There are two ways in which medicines can lead to hepatitis: it can either occur as a result of medicine poisoning through overdoses of a medicine (eg paracetamol), or it can occur as a result of an abnormal reaction of the liver to a normal dose {eg halothane, the anaesthetic). Fortunately, the latter type of hepatitis is rare.

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