LIVERRRRRRRR!

So today's focus in our classes was liver damage and well I was reminded on how much I love the liver. Do you know why there's a LIVE in LIVER?!!? Because the liver is just that awesome. Yes I had to blog about this!
75% of the liver is taken from the healthy donor and given to those who need a liver in a liver transplant. So for the reciever, the remaining healthy liver regenerates from 75% to 100%! As for the donor with 25% of liver, it will eventually regenerate the liver within 6 months! OH MY GOD! Is not just the coolest thing EVER?!?!
As for the alcoholics who abuse their bodies with over consumption here's some fun facts:

• You need to consume 2 cases of beer/day for 6 months to destroy your liver.Of course there is some discretion in the sense every body functions differently some might be more or less!
• You can also develop fatty liver from alcoholism. Fatty liver can also occur with those with a fat diet. How to solve that problem? Go on a low fat diet and the liver will eventually rid the fat. As for alcoholics with fatty liver. What happens is when you drink beer it's just straight carbohydrates (sugar), what the liver does is: oh Hey there's too much sugar up in here. Okay I'm going to convert this excess sugar into fat and pack it up on myself. That's what happens; fatty liver. What's wrong with a fatty liver? Imagine a sponge in a bucket; it's going to absorb the water up quite readily right? Well with fatty liver imagine that very sponge with a hard clay arround; absorption is not going to be that great.You basically will have this layer of fat blocking blood flow. And the liver is a crucial agent in "cleaning" our blood. What will happen eventually is there will be so much resistance in the liver(the lvier becomes hard and fluid will build up) and pressure will increase. There is going to be all this fluid in the liver. What's the body going to do? Push out all that extra fluid into your abdomen (more specifically the peritoneal cavity, which usually has 30 ml of fluid and surrounds the organs found in the abdoemn). So what happens from there ascites or thrid-spacing. All the fluid gushes into our peritoneal cavity, which is why patients will develop a big abdomen from this. To relieve that build up of excess fluid, the patient will under go paracentesis. This is where the basically stick a tube in and drain out all the excess fluids. When I stepped in to watch this procedure at the hospital, they managed to take out 2 L from the patient! Holy caca! You can see the emotional and physical relief the procedure does for the patient.My teacher saw 12 L of fluids being drained out of the patients abdomen. Of course you can't take out all the fluids at once but of course with maybe 4 hours gap.
  

So yes, I know I just spewed out alot of stuff but the liver is an important part of the body. Take good care of it. *pats her upper right abodomen and whispers I love you* Eat broccoli!! It helps remove all the waste from your liver. Also, for those who are concerned about the health of their liver, please don't diagnose yourself relying on information on the net. I mean what I wrote is legit stuff, lol I did just learn it class today and the information is in our textboos. But it's good to get a professional opinion that does diagnostic test to determine your body's state. (lol yes that was my legal disclaimer). I also got the photo off of this site for a better idea of what happens within those who have ascites.
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/Radio/curriculum/Surgery/Peritoneum_list1.htm