How the liver gets affected by Alcohol Consumption

The organic deteriorations caused by the persistent use of alcohol are often of a fatal character. The organ which most repeatedly undergoes structural changes from alcohol, is the liver. Generally, the liver has the capacity to hold active substances in its cellular parts. In example of poisoning by different poisonous compounds, we analyse liver as if it were the central depot of the foreign matter. It is basically the same in respect to alcohol.

The liver of an alcoholic is never free from the influence of alcohol and it is too often inundated with it. The minute membranous or capsular structure of the liver gets affected, forbidding proper dialysis and free secretion. The liver becomes large due to the dilatation of its vessels, the supplement of fluid matter and the thickening of tissue. This follows reduction of membrane and shrinking of the whole organ in its cellular parts. Then the lower parts of the alcoholic becomes edematous owing to the obstruction offered to the recurring blood by the veins. The structure of the liver may be charged with fatty cells and undergo what is technically selected 'fatty liver'.