What enzyme does alcohol ua test for and can you take something to couter act it?

Actually the test for liver damage is not only for alcohol damage but meds as well. And no, there is nothing you can take to counteract it. What would be the point in doing so, you can't live without your liver and if it is damaged you need to know.

An initial step in detecting liver damage is a simple blood test to determine the presence of certain liver enzymes in the blood. Under normal circumstances, these enzymes reside within the cells of the liver. But when the liver is injured, these enzymes are spilled into the blood stream.

Among the most sensitive and widely used of these liver enzymes are the aminotransferases. They include aspartate aminotransferase (AST or SGOT) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT or SGPT). These enzymes are normally contained within liver cells. If the liver is injured, the liver cells spill the enzymes into blood, raising the enzyme levels in the blood and signaling the liver damage.

Liver cells contain enzymes which process alcohol, the enzymes break down alcohol into other chemicals which are broken down into water and carbon dioxide, these are passed out in the lungs and urine. The liver cells can metabolise only small amounts of alcohol per hour. There is nothing you can do to change the effects of your drinking, besides not drinking in the first place, or time...

I have a client right now who is in the final stages of liver damage and nothing can be done for her. She has developed a condition called ascites (a condition aggravated by liver disease) and her abdomen fills with fluid. They have drained the fluid off three times in the last three months but cannot do it again due to causing infection. All they can do is up her diaretics hoping some of the fluid will be released in her urine; downside is she is so swollen she can't get to the toilet that easily. We are playing the waiting game now.