For Young Adults age 17-25

Alcoholic Hepatitis

Alcoholic hepatitis is liver disease caused by chronic ingestion of alcohol. This disease is found in heavy drinkers that have been drinking for a very long time as well as binge drinkers and those that drink modestly. This disease can, at times, be reversed in people that stop drinking but for most it turns into cirrhosis and liver failure. There is little known about alcoholic hepatitis and even less is known about how to treat it.

Warning signs do not always occur right away, but as the liver gets worse, the symptoms are much more likely to occur. Those symptoms include:

  • Loss of appetite
  • Nausea and vomiting, sometimes with blood
  • Abdominal pain and tenderness
  • Yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice)
  • Fever
  • Abdominal swelling due to fluid accumulation (ascites)
  • Mental confusion
  • Fatigue
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