Contest Alert: "Healthy Liver"

stef1 - 2 months ago

Gouache painting "Liver" by @stef1

Hello my dear Steemians,

I would like to invite you to the contest that is running by @suboohi and if you would like to have a look, here is the link:

https://steemit.com/hive-168205/@suboohi/contest-alert-healthy-liver

What do you understand by healthy liver?

Liver is one of the universal regenerator organ, we know from ancient Greek mythology when Zeus has punished the Prometheus for stolen fire, he was chained to rock and everyday an eagle was eating his liver everyday and following day it was regenerated. Human liver does not regenerate so quickly, still it is one of the organ that grow back a bit even after a person donates part of his liver to someone.

Healthy liver keeps our body clean from different toxins, it is a detox organ. Healthy liver takes part in the producing blood cells and proteins, it is producing proteins and clotting factors, preventing us from infection, from bleeding to death and also for storage of energy converting carbohydrates into glucagon and fat for later bad time.

Often liver can be damaged, reversible damage could be due to:

alcohol intake, but if it is early stage and a person stops alcohol, then liver can recover completely, if a person had long term alcohol intake then liver turns into knotted shrunken liver and cause liver cirrhosis
non alcoholic fatty liver disease, often in case when a person’s intake of carbohydrates and calories are too high, then our body can not use all that amount and convert carbohydrates into glucagon that is stored in liver
acute liver injuries due to for example Paracetamol overdose, people who take too much pain relief without paying attention at the dose. Some chemical overdose such acute injuries usually recover if the person is in hospital on early stage

Write some common tips to have healthy liver

What you can do to keep your liver happy:

avoid alcoholic
healthy food, less greasy and fatty food
less sugar, carbohydrates
reduce weight and do fitness exercise
avoid any other drugs and chemical substance exposure

Give any example of health problem due to liver dysfunction?

One of the commonest problem nowadays in western countries is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, this is common when people have overweight. Reversible condition when treated early
Alcoholic liver cirrhosis that is often not reversible condition, that could cause alcoholic encephalopathy that is brain injury secondary to alcohol. Also, it could cause fluid in abdomen that could get infected and cause sepsis. Liver cirrhosis could cause dilated veins in gullet and that could cause bleeding. If liver has cirrhosis that could lead to disturbance of clotting of your blood that could cause bleeding that is difficult to stop. Cirrhosis also could cause jaundice because the cells of liver are unable to create red blood cells they are damaged and yellow pigment is them will be expressed into blood and cause jaundice.

Gouache painting "Liver" by @stef1

For this contest I decided to do a painting of liver and I used gouache for this painting, I love that opaque feature of this paints.

I also captured the steps of my painting:

Here is a liver that has a triangular shape, there is ligament that is keeping the liver in the middle of abdomen. There is a gallbladder under the liver, also there are bile ducts of right and left part of the liver joining together. There are arteries of liver called hepatic arteries and a large vein called portal vein.

I would like to invite following users @dequeen, @memamun, @sitaraindaryas for the contest.

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