what causes an enlarged liver in a mid thirties non-drinking, faithful, married, non-drug user?

Question

this lady lives a very average life and has never travelled to any of the countries where hepatitis is common.

Answer 1

Having an enlarged liver is not very specific to anything. There are lots of things that could cause it including any type of viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, tumor in the liver. It could also be normal for her body.

Answer 2

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what causes an enlarged liver in a mid thirties non-drinking, faithful, married, non-drug user?
this lady lives a very average life and has never travelled to any of the countries where hepatitis is common.

Answer 3

Is the "faithful, married," part a moral judgement of yours or have you been so mis-informed that you think it's relevant?
There are many possibilities, many of which have been mentioned by others, but a particularly insidious one is hepetitis C. None of the things you mentioned would preclude HCV (hepititis C virus.)
I'm no angel (actually my horns prop up a halo so that it doesn't slip down & become a noose), but no one deserves HCV.
Ever get in a fight & cut a knuckle on someone's teeth while splitting their lip? If they had HCV they could have passed it to you. Ever put a bandaid on someone that was bleeding just a little, or rinsed out a washcloth used to help stop a bloody nose when you had a minor cut, bad hangnail or an abrasion on your hand? Guess what you might have picked up. How about going to a park & just sitting at a wooden picnic table and getting a sliver? HCV can live quite a long time outside the body, and slivers are often in areas where many people get stuck by them before they are broken off. Yup, you may have got it. How about blood or serum transafusions? No, just because they say that the blood supply is secure, it doesn't mean they tell the truth.
I know a guy who suffered a severe injury in a car wreck and received 6 units of blood. He now has one leg 3 inches longer than the other. He felt it was his responsibility to share blood (the gift of life) because he would have died without it. The blood he received was tainted. The accident was in 1989, he was well enough to donate blood in 1990, in 2002 he received a note from Red Cross telling him his liver enzymes were off & to have it checked. HCV.
For 12 years he donated blood that was tainted with HCV. What he shared wasn't the gift of life. Not his fault, Red Cross' fault, not that that makes him feel any better about it.
They didn't test blood for virus antibodies, they couldn't grow the virus on any medium until this year and it's expensive to test for HCV. They started testing for elevated AST & ALT liver enzymes, given off when a liver is developing fibrosis or worse, but they didn't test for antibodies. Many people get HCV without knowing it, and usually elevated enzymes are the first sign. The problem with this is that it can be 10 years or more before HCV reaches a point where these enzymes are released, some people have HCV and have never had an elevated enzyme level. The first symptom they noticed was exhaustion and eventually HCV was tested for.
The sad fact also is that more than 75% of Vietnam era vets got HCV from improperly cleaned injectors while getting their innoculations. It is estimated that more than 4 million people in the U.S. alone have HCV, many of them without knowing it.
Forget the B.S. morality play, fight HCV. Get tested, encourage others to get tested, no matter what their past lifestyle might have been.

Answer 4

An enlarged liver may occur as a result of one or more of these causes:

Inflammation or fatty liver may cause an enlarged liver and may result from:

An infection such as a from a virus or abscess
Certain medications
Toxins
Certain types of hepatitis, including alcoholic hepatitis
Autoimmune disease
Metabolic syndrome

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Answer 5

Enlarged liver has nothing to do with being faithful, married and non-drug user. Pls visit ur doctor for remedy...

All the best....

Answer 6

Hi
Some medications can cause the liver to enlarge also there are other diseases such as lupus that effect the liver. Most diseases that effect the liver are not contagious. Has her doctor done and liver enzyme tests to see if they are elevated?

Answer 7

She does not have to drink to get it there is also nonalcoholic, being over weight or obese is a major risk. Having diabetes or ad normal cholesterol level well increase the risk. You also have 3 different types of hepatitis A,B,C. B unprotected sex with more than one partner. Infection you have a job that expose you to human blood, or receive blood transfusion or blood product before 1970. C/ if you inject or snort illicit drug; received an organ transplant before 1992.

Answer 8

Liver disease; there are many types besides hepatitis. She needs to see a gastroenterologist, or a hepatologist. Good luck.

Answer 9

there are many cause of liver enlargement,, we cant say whats the cause ,, only doctors do, after diagnosing & doing examinations they can tell you the cause of her liver enlargement.. go see a doctor for remedies & cures before its too late

Answer 10

well, considering i had hepatitis c when i was REAL young, you don't have to be considered one of the above in order to get hepatitis c....

there are others including fatty liver (NASH), hereditary hepatitis and others.

if you have had a blood lab and your liver panel showed no increase in ALT and AST, you could still have a viral infection such as hepatitis c....my alt and ast would be fine one month, or elevated another month. for the most part my alt and ast levels remained normal, but i was finally diagnosed and treated for hepatitis c.