0
What are the effects of alcohol on a previously damaged liver?
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Alcohol can have negative consequences for the liver, particularly a liver that has been previously damaged.
Since the liver is responsible for metabolizing alcohol, forcing it to metabolize alcohol further is like asking someone who is nearly blind to read a small sign at a distance--difficult to do.
Liver problems associated with chronic alcohol consumption include:
1. Fatty liver- alcohol causes the accumulation of fat in the liver cells. Most liver cells die as a result of fat being stored in them
2. Hepatitis- inflammation of the liver from the use of alcohol, which can result in liver failure
3. Cirrhosis of the liver- alcohol kills liver cells. It causes the development of scar tissues on the liver, leading to liver failure.
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How is liver affected by alcohol?
The liver can be damaged by all the alcohol that you put in your body if you consme it heavily and abusively for a period of decades.
What are all the effects of alcohal on the liver?
There are no effects on the liver unless a person abuses alcohol over a period of many years or decades. However, alcohol abuse can lead to cirrhosis, or permanent scarring of the liver, and many other dangerous diseases.
Could an experiment be done with rubbing alcohol and a liver to show the effects of alcohol on the liver?
No. Isopropyl alcohol does not affect the liver in the same way as ethyl alcohol. Furthermore, the effects on the liver come from the functioning of a living liver (!) dealing with alcohol for long periods of time. The conditions possible in an experiment would have no valid relationship to the actual course of alcoholic liver disease.
What does alcohol effect in your body?
alcohol effects your immune system and your liver.
When you drink alcohol does your liver get more damaged?
Yes,your body wasn't designed to handle alcohol.
What organ is damaged permantently by alcohol use?
The Liver can be affected by overuse.
What kind of alcohol effects the liver?
As far as i know, every kind of alcohol effects the liver. In short, there are numerous liver diseases related to alcohol consumption: Accumulation of fluid in the abdomen; bleeding from veins in the esophagus; enlarged spleen; high blood pressure in the liver; changes in mental function, and/or coma; kidney failure; liver cancer; psoriasis; alcohol hepatitis; and Alcoholic cirrhosis
What are 3 negative effects of alcohol use?
you get drunk, you become really tired and you throw up if you have too much. you can also get bloodshot eyes. 1. Alchoolism. 2. Liver cancer. 3. Accident death.
3 effects of alcohol?
damage to the brain and liver and be feel sick in the mourning
What are the effects of excessive alcohol have on the liver?
Excessive alcohol use can cause a condition or disease called cirrhosis. It can be fatal.
Are effects of tobacco and alcohol the same?
Tobacco effects mainly the respiratory system and nervous system. Alcohol effects the circulatory system the digestive system (e.g. liver) and the nervous system.
What major organ does alcohol abuse effect the most?
The Liver. There are a variety of liver problems associated with alcohol, the most common of which are cirrhosis, caused by the formaldehyde produced during the metabolization of alcohol, and "fatty liver."
