What is Fatty Liver Disease? Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Non Alcoholic Treatment

The good healthy liver contain a little or no fats, but sometimes there are some
kind of fats called triglycerides increased in liver cells, these fats arrived to liver
from other body parts through the intestine.

The most common reason for Fatty Liver Disease is drinking too much alcohols. so, the most
infected people with fatty liver are the alcohol addicts and in this case it's called
Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD).

Drinking alcohols isn't the only reason for having Fatty Liver, the one of the most direct
reasons of Fatty Liver Disease is Obesity and Overweight and when the fatty liver not caused
by alcohol it's called Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD).

The Fatty Liver Disease became common in many parts of the world because of the many reasons which mentioned before such as "drinking alcohol, obesity and overweight".

Let's take examples for the most infected countries by Fatty Liver Disease USA and UK: In United States there are from 25 to 37 percent of USA residents infected by Fatty Liver Disease and in UK there are 20 percent of British people carrying fatty livers.

Fatty Liver Disease exists in high rate in obesity and overweight patients to be %80 percent
and second high infection rate will be between patients who did Bariatric surgeries "half of them having Fatty Liver Disease".

Fatty Liver Disease Symptoms:

The Simple kind of Fatty Liver Disease is known as Steatosis and it is haven't any obvious symptoms but 55 percent of people who having Steatosis may have these symptoms:

1- feeling uncomfortable in upper abdomen near the liver.
2- feeling unwell most of time.
3- they feel tired all time.
4- sometimes feeling dizzy.
5- can't sleep well.
6- liver become inflamed "happens in people who are having non-alcoholic fatty
liver disease (NAFLD)".
7- bad and weak memory, fatty liver patient always forget things.
8- yellow skin.
9- weak and tired muscles.
10- dark black faeces.
11- vomiting blood.
12- itchy skin.
13- scar tissue in patients having Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD).
14- when the patient having a fatty liver for a long time he will infected by cirrhosis of the liver.
15- Ascites, In the long run the fatty liver patient lost too much fluids from his/her body and that leads to ascites as direct result.
16- liver cirrhosis which leads to hepatocellular carcinoma if the fatty liver diseases not cured for a long time.

Fatty Liver Disease Causes:

There are many Causes of Fatty Liver Disease, Here are most of it:
1- drinking too much alcohol and that's termed as alcoholic liver disease (ALD).
2- Type 2 diabetes
3- increase of cholesterol level and triglyceride fats in blood.
4- overweight and obesity: and that factor is one of the most causes of fatty liver because of many people are overweight and having obesity disease.
5- some kinds of drug "if it used for along time" such as amiodarone, tamoxifen, methotrexate.
6- metabolic abnormalities.
7- galactosemia.
8- glycogen storage diseases.
9- homocystinuria.
10- tyrosemia.
11- overnutrition, malnutrition, total parenteral nutrition - TPN and starvation diet.
12- some diseases such as celiac sprue and Wilson disease.

Fatty Liver Disease Diagnosis:

1- Blood tests: to check cholesterol, glucose, iron, and triglycerides levels.
2- Imaging: by Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Ultrasound and Computed tomography (CT).
3- Biopsy: this way to take a small sample of liver cells to be analised.


Fatty Liver Disease Treatment:
There are many ways to treat fatty liver disease based on age of infection.

Earlier stages of fatty liver disease treated by curing causes first.

1- if fatty liver disease caused by overweight the the patient treated by losing weight slowly with suitable diet plan.
2- avoiding or limiting drinking alcohols as possible.
3- Surgery is an option in advanced stages of disease.
4- working out, sports can help significantly in treating fatty liver disease.
5- monitoring and lowering cholesterol and triglyceride fats rate in blood.
6- treating the diseases which leading to fatty liver disease such as diabetes, celiac sprue and Wilson disease.
7- treatment by fresh and organic foods because it contains Antioxidants and it can helps in controlling weigh.
8- treatment by olive oil, olive oil is useful in Fatty Liver Disease treatment because it contains Unsaturated fatty acids and a single double bond fats, strength the liver, detox liver, increasing liver activity which helps liver to get rid of triglyceride fats and olive oil helps in improving liver functions which affected by Fatty Liver Disease.