what damages liver?

Answer 1

Besides accidents, there are a number of things that can cause damage to the liver. Specific illnesses and diseases (like hepatitis), some specific drugs, poisons, and health supplements (like Lipokinetix® for weight loss) One of the worst is chronic alcohol use. It destroys the liver over time. My brother died of that.

Answer 2

Many things can damage your liver.

A blast from a 12 gauge shot gun straight into your chest cavity will damage your liver. So will a thrust from a Samuri sword. Skydiving without a parachute will normally cause damage to your liver, the last 10cm of the fall is the most dangerous. Many viruses can damage your liver. So can alcohol and many poisons. Getting sucked out into the vacuum of space may also affect your liver.

Answer 3

many things, look at it as a filter where any potential poison that enters the body goes there and should be inactivated. It works most of the times, but to a price, if the liver keeps on inactivating poisons (like alcohol for example) in time the cells will degenerate into what is called fat degeneration, lowering the filtration power until the liver is not able to work properly thus leaving a sick organism that needs a transplant or dies due to the transformation of the liver into scar tissue or cirrosis.

Answer 4

The liver is our biggest filtration plant for our blood system. Any toxins that goes in our mouth has to go through the liver to be cleansed. So, anything that is toxic will harm the biggest organ in the body and yes, alcohol is one of the worst, smoking and drugs are deadly.

Answer 5

alcohol, drugs and fats are the three main causes for a liver damage.

Answer 6

drinking to much alcohol can not only damage the liver but also destroy it street drugs have the same effect

Answer 7

Alcohol

Answer 8

Some tipes of wield mushrooms can cos liver Desi's. Some forms of Bactria found in contaminated food and water.Paint and paint thinner's.And petroleum basted cleaning products.

Answer 9

Many diseases of the liver are accompanied by jaundice caused by increased levels of bilirubin in the system. The bilirubin results from the breakup of the hemoglobin of dead red blood cells; normally, the liver removes bilirubin from the blood and excretes it through bile.

* Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver, caused mainly by various viruses but also by some poisons, autoimmunity or hereditary conditions.
* Cirrhosis is the formation of fibrous tissue in the liver, replacing dead liver cells. The death of the liver cells can for example be caused by viral hepatitis, alcoholism or contact with other liver-toxic chemicals.
* Hemochromatosis, a hereditary disease causing the accumulation of iron in the body, eventually leading to liver damage.
* Cancer of the liver (primary hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma and metastatic cancers, usually from other parts of the gastrointestinal tract).
* Wilson's disease, a hereditary disease which causes the body to retain copper.
* Primary sclerosing cholangitis, an inflammatory disease of the bile duct, autoimmune in nature.
* Primary biliary cirrhosis, autoimmune disease of small bile ducts
* Budd-Chiari syndrome, obstruction of the hepatic vein.
* Gilbert's syndrome, a genetic disorder of bilirubin metabolism, found in about 5% of the population.

There are also many pediatric liver disease, including biliary atresia, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, alagille syndrome, and progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, to name but a few.

A number of liver function tests are available to test the proper function of the liver. These test for the presence of enzymes in blood that are normally most abundant in liver tissue, metabolites or products.

Answer 10

Acohol is the most famous and dangerous substance that can damage your liver.