A leading consultant has urged people to lower their alcohol intake as he suggests many people’s Covid-19 drinking habits have stayed around.
Professor Ryan told the radio show: "Particularly during Covid-19 we got into a habit of having maybe a glass of wine in the evenings, and that can turn into half a bottle of wine and then a bottle of wine. "Over seven days, that could be 70 units of alcohol, it adds up very quickly. A lot of people that I'd see and they have very significant liver disease or even cirrhosis, they kind of wished that they had realised this and kind of stopped it in time.
To help, Professor Ryan suggested that introducing non-drinking days in the week can be a “huge benefit”."If you have an element of fatty liver disease or a milder form of liver disease, you would advise that someone would, say, just don't drink anything from Sunday to Thursday.