World Liver Day 2023: Quotes and messages to share with your loved ones

World Liver Day 2023: Liver is one of the most important organs in vertebrate species. It helps in digesting food, produces energy for the body and removes harmful chemicals from our body. When the liver is damaged, patients lose their appetite, feel weak, have fluid retention, diarrhea and develop jaundice and hepatitis.

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World Liver Day is observed every year on 19 April to create awareness about diseases affecting the liver. Below we take a brief look at the diseases and share some quotes and messages for the day.

World Liver Day 2023: Quotes

1. “If you want to have a liver, you must exercise more. Playing golf.” – Daphne du Maurier, The Birds and Other Stories

2. “Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.” , William James, Is Life Worth Living?

3. “Alas, their love could be called an appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, which tolerates excess, hatred, and rebellion.” , William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night Act 2, scene 4)

World Liver Day 2023: Message

1. On World Liver Day, we should educate more and more people about the causes and consequences of liver diseases.
2. We should always be conscious of the health of our liver. On World Liver Day, it is the duty of all of us to get our liver checked.
3. On World Liver Day, we should take a pledge to stay away from alcohol as it damages the liver.

liver diseases

The liver detoxifies the body of harmful substances in the bloodstream. It uses bile salts from bilirubin to break down food into smaller pieces. Liver builds the body’s immunity, helps in protein synthesis and blood clotting, and stores vitamins. Liver diseases such as cirrhosis, fatty liver, jaundice and hepatitis disrupt such vital functions. Liver diseases can be caused due to immunological issues, inherited disease, alcohol abuse, viral diseases and cancer.

Symptom

1. Symptoms of liver disease include pale stools, dark urine, pain in the upper right side of the abdomen, nausea and vomiting, swelling of the hands and feet, and yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice).
2. Countless people around the world are suffering from liver diseases.
3. They manage the disease with medicines, diet, lifestyle changes, and liver transplant if needed.

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