What will happen if a person with alcoholic liver disease continues to drink?
The first effect of alcohol consumption is fatty liver and if the individual stops drinking at this phase the condition is reversible. But if the individual after developing fatty liver continues to drink and the fatty liver moves to alcoholic hepatitis, the prognosis becomes poor and the individual develops jaundice, the transaminase enzymes start rising, the various functions of liver become compromised and gradually the size of liver start shrinking leading to cirrhosis of liver. In this stage ascitis (Collection of fluid in the abdomen), bleeding per rectum, haemetemesis (Blood in vomitus) associated with signs of mental disorientation like loss of concentration, memory and disorientation in speech may develop making the prognosis poor.
