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According to the Mayo Clinic and the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, causes of elevated liver enzymes in children include viral infections and overdose of certain medications. If your child is obese or has a diet high in fatty foods, elevated liver enzymes may result and are an indication of fatty liver disease.
The liver is responsible for detoxifying substances such as alcohol and drugs in your body, storing certain vitamins and minerals, such as iron and vitamin A, and storing glucose to be available as fuel. So what causes high liver enzyme levels to show up in a liver-function blood test? Alanine transaminase, or ALT, and aspartate transaminase, or AST, are the two most common liver enzymes to be tested. It is relatively common for one or both of these liver enzymes to be high. These enzymes leak out into the blood when liver cells are damaged or destroyed, the Mayo Clinic explains.