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What will alcohol consumption do to the hepatitis?
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Make it worse: If some one has hepatitis a, b, c or alcoholic hepatitis.Any amount of alcohol can make be very poisnous and lead to liver damage ending in cirrhosis and liver failure and will not be a candidate for liver transplant, unless have been alcohol free foe six months, but has been controversial lately.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Make it worse: Drinking alcohol can make chronic hepatitis worse, leading to to more rapid progression of fibrosis.
Answered 8/22/2020
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Alcohol: Alcohol use in a compromized liver can lead to cirrhosis, irreversible.
Answered 9/8/2013
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