N/A beer response

[Jennifera1975]

Busch light is good too. N/A kind. It's really the same taste as the full alcohol kind.

I'd like to try the others you have mentioned.

[Porphyrogennetos]

As far as I understand Bush Light is an alcoholic beverage with 4.1 % vol. alcohol content and as such an absolute no-go for people suffering from a liver condition.

It is poison for anybody recovering from alcohol dependency, as well. The 'light' is a marketing gag, just as is the case with 'light' cigarrettes.

Bush N/A has a 0.4% vol. I would not drink that either.

P.

[LAJ123]

Jennifera,

Good morning.

I like your suggestion regarding alcohol free beer.

For a lot of people this is a great idea and a good alternative for people trying to reduce their intake and miss the taste of proper beer / lager.

However, if anybody has alcohol related liver disease, this is not such a good idea. From my own experience, The liver specialist or transplant team will view drinking alcohol free beers, wines and lager as a sign they are not totally committed to a life without alcohol. This could be the difference between being listed and not being listed a transplant. The alcohol / substance abuse specialist on the team may consider that their thinking is still that of somebody who, despite their current choice of alcohol free, would actually still want a 'real' drink.

Jim

[Litimag]

Jim is completely right, due to some dubious science and a hell of a lot of assumption, drinking even completely non alcoholic beer will be seen as a precursor to relapse by the transplant team.

Personally, I found the stuff pointless but a lot of recovering alcoholics have used it as a tool to help in the early days of abstinence. It's all pretty subjective, and if it did lead someone to drink again then of course that's a disaster.

[LAJ123 in reply to Litimag]

Litmag,

You're right about this.

The transplant teams, for a very good reason have a zero tolerance when it comes to the possibility of a relapse.

The struggle to convince the public that people with 'self induced' liver disease 'deserve' a donated organ has been a difficult road. Just one person relapsing and wasting a liver is enough to damage the rates of people willing to register as a donor.

This is the 'George Best effect'. By continuing to drink after two transplants he put back donation rates for quite some time. Whatever the truth about his particular case, that's irrelevant, its public perception that matters. The public will only want to donate to those who they consider 'deserving' and as they have no choice in where their donation goes, they will simply not donate at all.

It seems unfair to us with ALD (alcohol related liver disease, but its a sad fact of life that we have to go that extra mile (or two) to convince the transplant team that we are suitable candidates.

Also, after transplant we have an added responsibility to be the model recipient as there will be some looking for us to slip. Sad, but a fact of life that we must understand from the beginning of the transplant process..

Jim and Lucy