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Does alcohol only affect the body short term?
Yes and no. Alcohol can destroy the liver if too much alcohol is consumed. However, an individual does not consume alcohol for a long period of time, the liver can heal itself.
How long to repair a liver from alcohol?
I am in the same boat. The doctor says, no alcohol until the liver is healed. This is strictly because the liver is the organ that filters alcohol. The liver filters poisons from the body and the body considers alcohol to be a poison.
Will a damage liver regrow?
you can destroy up to 60% of liver tissue. but it will heal itself. but this means total absense of alcohol, also avoid any other drugs that damage or over work the liver,especially acetominiphine(tylenol-1 example). it will take about six months . good diet also helps.
How long does alcohol stay in your sweat?
No. Alcohol is metabolized by the liver.
What is affected by long term alcohol use?
liver
How long does it take for alcohol to be metabolized by the liver?
The rate that the liver can burn up the alcohol is 1/2 ounce per hour.
What can long term alcohol damage cause?
corrosive of the liver
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.
If you stop drinking alcohol does your liver get better?
The liver is able to regenerate. it depends on how damaged your liver is before you stop drinking alcohol. so in mild liver damage yes. Liver cancer tends to occur in individuals who have stopped drinking. The typical pattern is is that an individual with alcoholic cirrhosis stops drinking for ten years or so and then develops liver cancer. It is somewhat unusual for an actively drinking alcoholic to develop liver cancer. What happens is that when the drinking is stopped, the liver cells try to heal by regenerating (reproducing). It is during this active regeneration that a cancer-producing genetic change (mutation) can occur, which explains the occurrence of liver cancer after the drinking has been stopped.
What is the long term name for when alcohol damages the liver cells?
Cirrhosis
What is the process by which the liver burns up alcohol that has been consumed?
How long does it take for alchohol to be processed by the liver?
How long does a half gallon of alcohol stay in your system?
Quite a long time. A half gallon of pure alcohol would be fatal, and your liver stops metabolizing it when you die. You figure it out. One and a half oz. of alcohol per hour. That is for a healthy liver.
