With the improvement of our living standard, more and more friends have fatty liver. In Chinese medicine we call it phlegm-dampness, which has the **** same effect as high blood fat and fat accumulation in western medicine. Western medicine believes that fatty liver is divided into mild, moderate and severe, generally more than 3% of the fatty liver, we can define as mild fatty liver; when the fat particles in our liver cells to reach between 5% - 10%, we can define as moderate fatty liver; more than 10% we can define as severe fatty liver.

Mild fatty liver in general does not need medication. One is to reduce weight, when our body weight decreases by one kilogram, our triglycerides will decrease by 8 milligrams per deciliter, Another is our diet, we must eat less of some pungent, spicy, fat, thick food, and also avoid some food that is easy to turn wet and help phlegm, and generate heat. We must pay attention to drink less alcohol, weight down, drink less in the case, then your fatty liver slowly reduce.

When we are moderate and severe fatty liver, in addition to dietary attention, increase the intervention of drugs. In traditional Chinese medicine, it's about detoxifying the liver and lowering lipids while at the same time resolving phlegm and activating the blood. In Western medicine, it is necessary to use some drugs to lower triglycerides, and at the same time to protect the liver.

What happens when fatty liver is left untreated?

Moderate and severe fatty liver without treatment and without changing lifestyle habits, about two to three years later, fatty liver cirrhosis or alcoholic cirrhosis may occur. After cirrhosis, there may be discomfort in the liver area, irritability, bitterness in the mouth, redness in the eyes, sticky stools and yellow urine.

The appearance of fatty liver, we must be from the lifestyle intervention, dietary attention, fatty liver serious cases, drug intervention. If not treated, cirrhosis will form, and if cirrhosis is not treated, it will slowly progress to irreversible liver cancer. With fatty liver, the first thing to do is to keep your mouth shut and your legs open. At the same time fatty liver is too heavy, we have to intervene with drugs.