Pediatric Liver Disease

It’s back-to-school season and we know just how difficult it can be to get your child to eat healthy foods, let alone make healthy choices at school. To help alleviate any back-to-school (lunch) jitters, we interviewed former registered public-school nurse and ALF Liver Life Advocate, Susan Avalone, on how to pack a healthy lunch your child will actually eat!

Courtney's experience as a first time mom was not what she expected. But thanks to a strong support system, Courtney is now a strong advocate for her daughter, Sadie, and the 100 million Americans affected by liver disease.

Dr. Ekong is a pediatric resident on the liver transplant team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the United Kingdom and is passionate about pediatric transplant hepatology.

Did you know that Biliary Atresia is the most common indication for liver transplant in children?

Approximately 15,000 hospitalizations occur each year for pediatric liver disease in the United States.

This little one was diagnosed at three months old with Biliary Atresia – a rare, life-threatening condition in infants in which bile ducts inside or outside the liver don’t have normal openings.

Biliary atresia is a disease of the bile ducts that affects only infants. It is rare, affecting about one out of every 18,000 infants.

This article addresss the most common questions about hepatitis C in children and adolescents.

NAFLD is the most common liver disease in the United States. It is thought to affect approximately 30 million people, 8.6 million of whom have the more severe form of the disease, NASH.