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What to do if i have on the average 4 alcoholic drinks per day. how long before i get cirrosis?
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Alcohol and liver: Cirrhosis will eventually develop in most cases with chronic and elevated alcohol intake. It may be impossible to predict when that will occur in an individual. The only way to get an idea is to biopsy the liver and look for fibrosis. Then wait and repeat the biopsy years later. Any progression and the rate of fibrosis in chronic injury can then be estimated.
Answered 7/3/2013
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Probably you won't: If everybody who drank as much as you do got cirrhosis, there would be a lot more of it out there. We don't know what this is doing for your brain long-term, and it's pricey, and i'd still urge you to cut back to 1-2 like most folks who drink daily. Your liver might be replaceable; your brain isn't the neither is the time that you could have been more sober and doing something more fulfilling.
Answered 6/15/2013
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