Your liver is an important organ that helps with digestion, regulating blood sugar, producing bile, and other important bodily functions. But when your liver doesn’t function well, as can happen with fatty liver disease, then you need professional medical help to get things back in order in Bronxville, New Rochelle, Westchester County, White Plains, Yonkers, NY, and the surrounding areas. At Gastroenterology of Hudson Valley, there are various signs that our doctor will look for that will lead to a diagnosis, and from there we can create a treatment approach that is customized for each patient. There are things that are both short term and long term in nature that can help to correct things and improve your quality of life. Talk with our team today to schedule your appointment and understand how fatty liver can negatively affect your health.
Not Just an Alcohol Problem
While years ago, fatty liver disease was associated with alcohol consumption, these days metabolic issues can also lead to this diagnosis. If left untreated, it can lead to cirrhosis of the liver, liver failure, as well as liver cancer. To aid in diagnosis, we will use a blood test to check for elevated liver enzymes which can indicate liver stress, taking a family medical history to see if there are familial concerns, as well as using ultrasound, CT scans, or even an MRI to help visualize the liver as well as detecting excess fat.
Understanding what the underlying cause or causes are of fatty liver will help with creating your personalized plan to help control things and hopefully reverse some of the effects. Based on this diagnosis and what originally lead to the condition will influence what sort of treatment and management efforts will be best to incorporate.
Treatment and Management of the Condition
There are several approaches that will likely be recommended, and some will be more effective than others. Ongoing management and tracking is important to success. For many, weight loss, especially if that can be 10% of body weight or more, can often be very effective. Making sure that regular exercise, like walking, is incorporated into lifestyle changes is also helpful, as are dietary adjustments. Monitoring blood sugar can also be helpful for overall health improvement as well. In some cases, medications might be helpful with liver scarring.
Fatty liver disease is a condition that affects many in Bronxville, New Rochelle, Westchester County, White Plains, Yonkers, NY, and the surrounding areas, but it isn’t a diagnosis that needs to be treated negatively. There are plenty of options available to help correct things and improve the ongoing health of patients, and at Gastroenterology of Hudson Valley, our doctor and team will look at all of the options available to help improve the health of all of our patients. Contact us today to get your appointment scheduled.