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The exact amount of booze you have to drink before your liver is 'irreversibly damaged' - as alcohol illness soars in young, binge-drinking women

Britain's 'wine o'clock' culture may be partly to blame for an alarming trend that has seen deaths from chronic liver disease rocket five-fold since the 1970s.

Source: Cubes | 

04.12.2024, 16:25

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It might seem like a treat at the end of the day. 

But Britain's 'wine o'clock' culture may be partly to blame for an alarming trend that has seen deaths from chronic liver disease rocket five-fold since the 1970s. 

Liver cirrhosis — scarring caused by continuous, long-term liver damage — strokes and cancer are already well-established risks of excess boozing.

Yet, research suggests it doesn't take a huge amount of alcohol to trigger the condition.

It comes as BBC Panorama journalist, Hazel Martin, was shocked to discover she was suffering from alcohol-related liver fibrosis — or extreme scarring on the liver — at the age of just 31. 

The Scottish mum-of-one said she never drank alone. Instead, she enjoyed it as a social activity. 

By definition, however, her consumption from her late teens to late 20s would be considered binge drinking.

Experts have also recently sounded the alarm over a 'concerning' uptick of booze-related fatalities among middle-aged women. 

It comes as BBC Panorama journalist, Hazel Martin, was shocked to discover she was suffering from alcohol-related liver fibrosis ¿ or extreme scarring on the liver ¿ at the age of just 31

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