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Can cirrhosis of the liver be cured?


Can cirrhosis of the liver be cured?

No, not without a transplant. But if the cirrhosis is caused by a virus, such as hepatitis C, and the person is able to do the treatment (peginterferon & ribavirin), then studies have shown that the liver can have histologic improvement. While that might mean the liver will still have damage, it may add some time and slow down further progression of the disease. Pegylated interferon has been used as a maintenance to keep people from going into liver failure.
If the cirrhosis is from alcohol or other liver diseases, then a transplant may help. I know many people who have been transplanted and all of them are doing well. I work with a liver disease support group.
One other thing: some people can live many many years with cirrhosis IF they take care of themselves, change their lifestyle, and do not drink or use drugs (even over the counter & prescriptions) unless their doctor (specialist: gastroenterologist or hepatologist) is aware of everything they take. Best wishes.

I think maybe with a liver transplant.....

No.

Yes, one quart of Vodka per day.

No. it's incurable.

Just with a transplant. And the outcome is not very good there. Sorry.

the only way to cure cirrhosis is to receive a liver translplant

Slowly. The term cirrhosis means that the damaged liver tissues did not get a chance to heal themselves (it's a very slow process). So the damage tissue is replaced with scar tissue that will never heal. If you do anything to severely damage the liver cells, like drinking heavy or having a std or many other things, you should wait for it to heal before you engage in any activities that will stress the liver's function.

If it is caught early, and caused by alcohol, but if it is due to Hep C, not usually. I have never heard of a case. It requires a transplant. This is why Hep C is harder to treat than aids today and can kill you faster in many cases. It causes liver cirrhosis and liver cancer and it is not curable.

As a matter of fact it can. My father had cirrhosis of the liver and was deathly sick (but he did not drink it was in his blood)and he got a transplant and it has been like two years, but other than that I do not think that there is any other way to fix it other than a transplant. Since your liver is already screwed up any more medication could be fatal as well as alcoholic
beverages so my answer is yes, by a liver transplant.

I have a BS in Biology and was taught...no, it can't, except by transplant (hello, anti-rejection drugs for the rest of the patient's life!)

But I was in a T-shirt shop about 8 years ago. A woman there told me that her sister (whose liver was failing and death was imminant) recovered by drinking Essaic tea.
Again, this is hearsay. A story told by a woman whom I had just met.
She had heard of it, and prepared it from loose leaves (has to be heated, strained through cloth, not an easy pop-the-tea-bag in the boiling water thing)
and brought it to her sister in the hospital.
Since her sister was dying, it couldn't hurt.
Sounds fishy to me. And I never had the time to research it. But if you want to do some investigating to see if it has any merit, she told me it is an old folk remedy for the liver, so you could start with folk medicine..

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