Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Tips to keep your liver healthy

Tips to keep the liver health as below: -


1. Avoid taking unnecessary medications (Too many chemicals can harm your liver.)
Don't mix medicines without the advice of a doctor. (You could create something poisonous that could damage your liver badly.)

2. Don't drown your liver in beer, liquor or wine. (If you drink alcohol, have two or fewer drinks per day.)

3. Never mix alcohol with other drugs & medications.

4. Use caution and common sense regarding intimate contact (Hepatitis viruses live in body fluids, including blood and seminal fluid.)

5. Hepatitis C, spread primarily through direct blood contact, can be transmitted through contaminated needles used in drug injection.

6. Untreated, chronic hepatitis B and C can cause cirrhosis and liver cancer and are the most frequent reason for liver transplants.

7. Many infected people do not have symptoms until liver damage occurs, sometimes many years after being infected.

8. Never, ever, touch a discarded syringe or needle.

9. Avoid cigarette smoking. Smoking should be terminated, as it has been linked to the development of liver cancer and may enhance the toxic effects of some medications, such as Tylenol (acetaminophen) on the liver.

10 .Safe sex. Protect yourself from hepatitis B and C. Not engaging in unprotected sex will greatly reduce the likelihood of infection with hepatitis B. While the risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis C is rare, protected sex is recommended if a person engages in anal sex, has multiple sexual partners, has frequent prostate infections, has open cuts or sores on the genitalia, or is menstruating.

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