Turugram: Doctors in the city have witnessed patients who reported liver disease.
Most of these patients are found to have one thing in common – they have a habit of drinking, which increases during pandemic and locking.
A number of these patients, said the doctors, had reported liver failure and desperately needed donors.
Experts link an increase in drinking habits among these patients with stress from loss of work or finance during locking.
In some cases, Covid is also found to have played a role in influencing liver health.
Among patients who need donors are the company’s employees from the 28th sector “We are desperately looking for donors now to transplant my husband’s heart.
My rights don’t match his property, and our son is too young to contribute,” his wife said.
Doctors in several hospitals in the city said they witnessed a 40-50% increase in patients diagnosed with liver problems related to alcohol.
“We see Spurt in patients with serious complications since the pandemic.
Even the number of patients who need transplants after liver failure or cancer-related alcohol has surged from 25% to 40%.
Of the 250-plus transplants we did in 2021, more than 100 for patients who have excessive drinking habits, “said Dr.
Arvinder Soin, Chair of the Medanta Liver Institute.
Dr.
Soin explained why many of these patients had enjoyed heavy drinking.
“The reason is vary.
Consecutive locking forces people to distort their lives.
Losing work and further financial stress can be one of the causes.
Moreover, the work of the house means people have time for themselves.
Drink weight as ‘coping mechanism’ or Get out of boredom is also rampant, “he said.
Data from the Excise Ministry said everything.
Haryana reported growth of more than 40% in the sale of Indian-made liquor during the fourth quarter of 2020-21, when most people were limited to their homes and the government had opened liquor stores to open.
Not only stress from work, but prolonged isolation from family members during the locking months has also forced many people to do other ways to drink excessively, experts show.
“Overall, regular drinks and parties increase during this period.
Excessive alcoholism reasons are stress, anxiety, and even the availability of free time.
Some of my patients with liver disease have a habit of drinking habits.
The advice is simple – avoiding liquor and practicing a good lifestyle And healthy is very important, “said Dr.
Rinkesh Kumar Bansal, senior consultant, (Gastroenterology and Hepatobilier), in Fortis Hospital.
But liquor is not the only reason for burst in the patient.
Covid was also found to have an impact on the heart in some cases.
Covid, the doctors show, have a receptor for parenchim hearts.
In addition, a prolonged quarantine period and lack of activity also causes weight gain, causing the liver to compromise.
And unhealthy dead and drinks added to this.
“Many patients in the de-addiction stage have been continued to drink during a pandemic because they are not under the doctor’s watch.
Also, some people start drinking because of stress from various reasons during locking.
All of this has caused a surge in patients with liver failure,” said Virender Yadav, Head of medical officer.
The doctor also warned against his own treatment.
“People are interested in some of the herbal immune booster, which, when taken as independent medicine in a form that is not measurable and not processed, can cause severe damage to the rhythm of liver failure,” said Dr.
Pallavi Garg, a senior consultant of gastroenterologists at the hospital.