Does too much intake o medicine can cause fatty liver?
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if you are taking too much of a certain medication over an extended period of time it can, if you take a little too much just once it wont but that can cause other problems.. i think a large overdose could probably do it too.
tylenol (acetominophen) is a good example and probably one of the more common, a lot of drugs are comboed with acetaminophen, so people on several medications (especially pain meds and old people who forget what they have and havent taken) take too much and it damages the liver. the liver regenerates but if the damage is severe enough steatosis or "fatty liver" sets in
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no
so many intake and so little sport then fatty liver will avoidable.
There are MANY medications out there, prescription and over the counter, that can cause or contribute to problems with the liver. Including fatty liver disease. While this is NORMALLY associated with being overweight, it is not always so. Always read and understand the labels on pills. If it mentions liver problems, and you already have fatty liver disease, do not take the medication for an extended period of time. Aleve (naproxin) was recently found to be a big problem, when taken regularly, for people with fatty liver disease.
Fatty liver occurs in alcoholism, and obese people may have more fat although the distrubition is not the same. If a medicine were hepatotoxic it could damage liver and increase fat.
Best way to get the fat out of the liver is to take L-carnitine (fat burner; non-stimulant), coenzyme q10 (increases oxidation of fatty acids), lecithin (emulsifies the fat), milk thistle extract (increases liver function and bile secretion), and soluble fiber like psyllium (sucks up the bile salt and helps it get excreted). Also, remove all cereal grains until you improve: no crackers, pasta, chips, etc. No dairy and wheat, and do lots of juicing with carrot, beet, dandelion, ginger, garlic, etc. You condition will reverse within a matter of weeks.
i dont think that medicines can cause fatty liver. as far as i know, fatty liver is caused by exessive carbohydrate intake. it's called fat infiltration to the liver. medicines can damage the liver (especially those which have toxic properties to the liver such as acetaminophen/paracetamol) but not cause fat infiltration.
CAUSES OF FATTY LIVER:
Q: I was taking the cholesterol-lowering medicine Pravachol for one year. After a blood test, it was discovered I had fat in my liver. I went off the Pravachol for a year and took another blood test and still have fat in my liver. On my previous cholesterol medication, my cholesterol level was at 250, but I never had fat in my liver. Could the Pravachol have caused the fat in my liver, and how can I make my liver healthy again? My doctor doesn't have any answers.
A: Statins such as Pravachol are cholesterol-lowering medications that work by blocking cholesterol production by your liver. They are especially good for lowering the levels of LDL cholesterol by removing it from your blood when the blood circulates through the liver. The statins can cause muscle aches in about 1% of the people who use them and at high doses they raise the liver enzymes in about 2% of people.
Alcohol abuse is one of the major causes of fatty liver, but obesity, hepatitis C, diabetes and protein malnutrition are other common causes. Although medications such as amiodarone, steroids, estrogen, nifedipine and methotrexate have been reported to cause fatty liver, I don't think the Pravachol caused the fat in your liver. Avoiding alcohol, maintaining a low-fat diet and losing weight will help your liver.
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Definition of Fatty Liver
Fatty liver is the accumulation of fat in liver cells. It is also called steatosis.
Description of Fatty Liver
Possible explanations of fatty liver include the transfer of fat from other parts of the body or an increase in the extraction of fat presented to the liver from the intestine. Other explanations are that the liver reduces the rate it breaks down and removes fat. Eating fatty foods does not by itself produce a fatty liver.
Causes and Risk Factors of Fatty Liver
Alcohol, obesity, starvation, diabetes mellitus, corticosteroids, poisons (carbon tetrachloride and yellow phosphorus), Cushing's syndrome, and hyperlipidemia are some causes of fatty liver. Microvesicular fatty liver may be caused by valproic acid toxicity and high-dose tetracycline or during pregnancy.
Symptoms of Fatty Liver
Patients are often asymptomatic.
Diagnosis of Fatty Liver
The patient may have an enlarged liver or minor elevation of liver enzyme tests. Several studies show that fatty liver is one of the most common causes of isolated minor elevation of liver enzymes found in routine blood screening.
Images of the liver obtained by an ultrasound test, CT (computed tomography) scan, or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) may suggest the presence of a fatty liver. To be certain whether a patient has fatty liver requires a liver biopsy, in which a small sample of liver tissue is obtained through the skin and analyzed under the microscope.
Treatment of Fatty Liver
The treatment of fatty liver is related to the cause. It is important to remember that simple fatty liver may not require treatment. The benefit of weight loss, dietary fat restriction, and exercise in obese patients is inconsistent.
Reducing or eliminating alcohol use can improve fatty liver due to alcohol toxicity. Controlling blood sugar may reduce the severity of fatty liver in patients with diabetes. Ursodeoxycholic acid may improve liver function test results, but its effect on improving the underlying liver abnormality is unclear.
Questions To Ask Your Doctor About Fatty Liver
Is there fatty infiltration of the liver?
What did the liver function test show?
Is this related to diabetes mellitus?
Is it related to any other medical problem?
Should alcohol consumption be curtailed?
What treatment, if any, do you recommend?
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What causes fatty liver?
The most common cause of fatty liver is alcoholism. In alcoholic fatty liver, over consumption of alcohol changes the way that the liver breaks down and stores fats. Often, people with chronic alcoholism also suffer from malnutrition by eating
irregularly and not consuming a balanced diet. Conditions that can also cause fatty liver are other forms of malnutrition (especially when there is not enough protein in the diet), obesity, diabetes mellitus, and Reye's syndrome in children. Pregnancy can cause a rare, but serious form of fatty liver that starts late in pregnancy and may be associated with jaundice and liver failure. Some drug overdoses or toxic chemical poisonings, such as carbon tetrachloride, can also cause fatty liver.
The mechanism by which these diseases or factors cause fat to accumulate within liver cells is not known. Simply eating a high-fat diet, for example, does not produce a fatty liver. One possible explanation is that these diseases or factors slow the rate at which fat is processed (metabolized) and excreted by the body. The resulting buildup of fat within the body, according to this theory, is then stored inside the liver cells.
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