What is fatty liver disease, also known as yellow disease?

Fatty liver is not a healthy condition in general but fat in the liver usually causes no damage by itself. However, on many occasions it can be a sign of harmful abnormality. Fatty liver may be associated with or may lead to inflammation of the liver. This can cause scarring and hardening of the liver. When scarring becomes extensive, it is called cirrhosis, and this is a very serious condition.

What are the major reasons for your liver to be fatty?
Number One. The trivial one 鈥?Obesity.
Number Two. It might sound very strange, but in fact yes 鈥?Starvation. Rapid loss of weight could cause fatty liver condition.
Number Three. Diabetes.
Number Four. Drug Abuse.
Number Five. Alcohol Abuse.
Number Six. Side effects of certain medications.

So, it is important for you at the very beginning to get a comprehensive medical exam in order to see a complete picture of your health, to see a real reason why it happened in order to act accordingly.

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Some fat on the liver doesn't mean yellow disease. My husband had an ultrasound to check his stomach and the doctor said he has fatty liver. But not to worry because it's normal.

It sounds like a prelude to cirrhosis of the liver - get a second opinion of what to do.

Alcohol abuse is one of the major causes of fatty liver, but obesity, hepatitis C, diabetes and protein malnutrition are other common causes. http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/102806...
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) refers to a wide spectrum of liver disease ranging from simple fatty liver (steatosis), to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), to cirrhosis (irreversible, advanced scarring of the liver). All of the stages of NAFLD have in common the accumulation of fat (fatty infiltration) in the liver cells (hepatocytes). In NASH, the fat accumulation is associated with varying degrees of inflammation (hepatitis) and scarring (fibrosis) of the liver.
You can read more about this condition here: http://www.medicinenet.com/fatty_liver/a...
Fatty liver or Steatorrhoeic Hepatosis is a reversible condition seen in chronic alcoholism and many other conditions, where large vacuoles of lipid accumulate in hepatocytes (the cells of the liver). Accumulation of fat in liver cells will cause the liver to enlarge. The lipid within the vacuoles is a particular type of lipid known as triglyceride. Triglyceride molecules consist of a glycerol backbone with three fatty acid molecules joined on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty_liver