What are the best ways to prevent liver damage?

You can damage your liver through toxins like alcohol, many cleaning fluids, contaminated food, infections, or contaminated blood. The best ways to prevent liver problems:

• Have no more than two alcoholic drinks daily
• Don't use IV drugs (you have a 25 percent chance of contracting viral hepatitis if the needle is infected)
• Don't take unnecessary medication
• Don't have unprotected sex
• Don't use excessive aerosol cleaners in poorly ventilated areas.
  
  

Yellow discoloration of the skin and very dark urine are common tip-offs to liver damage.