A discussion got a bit confused and I couldn't find an answer online, but basically my cousin has been sent for 'LFTs' which I have found out means liver function tests. She drinks a bit, but nothing like most people she lives around (she lives in a part of Scotland with a really heavy drinking culture), but I reckon it would be more than the guidlelines.
She told me that if she doesn't drink for 6 weeks, her liver tests would be normal, that 6 weeks off the booze would be long enough for any abnormalities to 'disappear' in her results. Obviously I don't know what the test she either is due to have or has had say, so i don't know whether her moderate-ish drinking will already show up on the test or not.
What do LFTs actually measure?
Anyway, I reckon it would take longer than 6 weeks for your liver to recover (assuming no irreparable damage, which I'd hope wasn't there) if you stopped drinking, but is it 8 weeks? Or 6 months?
Please note I am not lookin for a lecture about how a single glass of wine a day, or whatever will kill her in 2 years or whatever or advice on her joining AA, we were just takling about the physical recovery of your liver if you stopped drinking..
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How long does your liver take to recover from alcohol excess?
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Tansie · 19/01/2017 10:32
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