Fatty Liver Causes and Treatment, What is Fatty Liver? Should I Worry About My Fatty Liver?
What Is Fatty Liver? Having a fatty liver is exactly what it sounds like: too much fat infiltrating your liver. If this is allowed to continue it can become serious. Until recently most cases were actually caused by heavy drinking, which is why your GP would have seemed surprised that you don’t drink more. Previously, when a scan showed a fatty liver I used to have conversations along the lines of, ‘So are you really only drinking one or two glasses of wine at the weekend?’
We are used to patients under-reporting alcohol consumption. It turns out that our skepticism may be unfair because alcohol is no longer the commonest cause of liver damage. It’s more likely to be a poor diet that has fed the surge in damage to this poor organ. Storing excess fat around the tummy, where it wraps around and infiltrates important organs such as the liver and pancreas, causes inflammation and a rise in liver enzymes.
