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Love Your Liver in 3 simple steps

The Love your Liver campaign is a national awareness initiative by a national charity, the British Liver Trust. We each have responsibility for our own health, follow the steps below to achieve a healthier liver.

Just staying off alcohol for two to three days at a time, avoiding fatty foods and taking regular exercise are great ways to Love Your Liver. Use this website to discover more about our Love Your Liver campaign. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for liver facts, tips and myth busters and to support the LYL campaign.

The British Liver Trust is a UK charity for adults with liver conditions. The charity provides information, support and advice to help people.

Tips Love Your Liver

There are many ways you can love your liver and help it function at its best, including:

Take 2-3 days in a row off alcohol

This will keep your total intake down and gives your liver time to recover. Providing your liver has no lasting damage, it can repair itself very quickly can take as little as 24 hrs to go back to normal. Why not try the Love Your Liver Challenge.

Stay slim

Eat well and exercise regularly. If you are overweight you increase your risk of liver disease by three times if you drink alcohol too. Cutting down on your daily food indulgences and not overloading on sugary drinks will all help to optimise your liver function.

Feeling constantly tired?

Go to your GP and ask for a liver function test. Your liver has no nerve endings so finds it hard to complain when something is wrong, get it checked out if you feel you have pushed the boundaries on a regular basis with alcohol and fatty foods.

Don't let it get to the stage where you turn yellow:

None of us want to look like Homer Simpson even if we may secretly admire some of his qualities. Many patients do end up looking like Homer (yellow and swollen) exactly because of those habits - beer, junk food and no exercise. Looking after your liver is not complicated and it's easy to prevent it's just like looking after the rest of your body.

Remember your ABC's:

If you are planning to travel abroad visit your GP or local travel clinic first to see if you need to get vaccinated to protect yourself from hepatitis A and B. Hepatitis A, B and C can be picked up abroad by having unprotected sex or getting a tattoo in destinations where hygiene standards are questionable.

Ever needed a blood transfusion?

This could have been after a caesarean at the birth of your child or a severe accident. If so, check the date of when you did. If it was before 1991 when blood wasn't screened for viral hepatitis you could have hepatitis without even knowing. Go to your GP and ask to be tested.

For more tips, health advice and information about the liver, visit the British Liver Trust website: www.britishlivertrust.org.uk

LYL Challenge

Every year, the LYL campaign takes to the road to offer the public the opportunity to attend a pop-up clinic to get their liver health assessed and tested if necessary, also to learn about ways they can improve the health of their liver.

We have now completed the Love Your Liver Roadshow 2013 which has been a great success. Thank you to all of the voluntary medical teams that supported us, we visited 8 locations in January and spoke to hundreds of people across the country.

We would love to visit more places but as we are reliant on voluntary donations and do not receive any government funding we have to stay within our limited resources. Voluntary donations are needed to fund our liver awareness work, patient support services and vital research.

Over the next few months, as part of the planning process for the LYL Roadshow 2014, we will be looking at ways that we can improve the tour, participant experience and how we reach out to new communities. If you are a medical health professional or a British Liver Trust supporter and would like to help us on the LYL Roadshow 2014 please email or call us on 01425 481320 to register your interest.

Get Involved

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Would you like to support our Love Your Liver awareness campaign?

Help us spread the word about liver health across the UK by holding an awareness day, week or month at work or in within your community. By holding a LYL awareness event you are not only helping people understand how amazing their liver is but letting them know how they can take care of it.

The funds raised will help us to continue funding research, provide vital support services and continue with public awareness.

Contact us today to register your Love Your Liver event.

phone: 01425 481320
email: loveyourliver@britishlivertrust.org.uk
post: British Liver Trust, Love Your Liver, 2 Southampton Road, Ringwood BH24 1HY

About Us

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About the British Liver Trust

January is Love Your Liver Month, and the Love Your Liver campaign is a national awareness initiative about liver health coordinated by the British Liver Trust - the UK charity for adults with liver conditions.

The Love Your Liver Roadshow embarks on an annual national tour of the UK each January, offering pop-up liver health clinics to get your liver health assessed and tested if necessary.

The British Liver Trust assessed the liver health of more than 300 people in 5 days in January 2012. Over a quarter (28%) of people assessed were told to visit their GP and request a subsequent Liver Function Test.

The LYL Roadshow is sponsored by FibroScan which is a non-invasive imaging scan that evaluates the degree of liver stiffness, or scarring, known as fibrosis.

The LYL campaign brings together all aspects of maintaining a healthy liver and is delighted to have teamed up with Eisberg alcohol free wine and Morrisons supermarkets to deliver the LYL 2013 Roadshow.

The British Liver Trust is a national charity that funds medical research, provides vital support for those living with a liver condition and raises public awareness to prevent liver disease www.britishlivertrust.org.uk

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