Drinking alcohol on a daily basis leads to alcoholism. The severity of complications from this serious disease depends on the dose of alcohol, its strength, quality parameters, as well as the accompanying pathologies of the patient, his body weight, age and even gender. Today you will find out how harmful alcohol is, what period a patient suffering from alcoholism can live through, how they suffer from the disease and then die.
When is a stop needed?
Frequent and immeasurable drinking damages all body systems, but there is a misconception that if you drink alcohol in moderation, it will be beneficial. So say those patients who are justified in front of everyone every day. It is clear that if you take alcohol every day in large doses, then in the near future the patient will die.
How often can you drink alcohol? An alcohol concentration of 6. Is fatal to one person. It is achieved when drinking a couple of bottles of vodka 500 ml in a short time. There will be a state of intoxication, dysfunction of the whole organism, even when the person has not been ill before. It is forbidden to take alcoholic beverages for patients with hepatic, cardiac and vascular dysfunction.
What happens if you drink a lot of alcohol every day, can you drink alcohol often? Signs of alcohol dependence that require immediate treatment are:
- Daily drinking a bottle of vodka or more, or a liter of beer.
- Ongoing meetings for any reason with alcoholics who drink alcohol with an alcoholic.
- Dysfunction of all body systems, an increase in beer belly.
- The patient uses alcohol to relax.
- Every morning, a patient consuming alcohol is worried about a hangover syndrome, the fun lasts for weeks.
About complications caused by vodka
Drinking vodka every day will cause alcoholism. Pathological processes will arise in the body that will become irreversible:
- Kidney, liver, cardiovascular dysfunction will begin and the digestive system will also suffer.
- There will be dysfunctions of the central nervous system, mental problems.
- A person's appearance will change, he will become impoverished, the body will age faster.
As a result of daily consumption of strong alcohol, damage to cerebral structures will appear, which will lead to psychosis, delirium tremens.
Such patients will not even notice how quickly they will start to forget everything, will become inattentive and their intellect will deteriorate. They will become self-contained, socially degraded. Large doses of vodka will lead to the fact that a person will be paralyzed, his peripheral, spinal nerve fibers will become inflamed and radiculopathy will develop.
The gastric mucosa will burn constantly, then become inflamed. Inflammatory processes will also occur throughout the intestinal tract. The liver will not be able to completely neutralize the toxic compounds of alcohol, its cellular structures will die, cirrhosis or oncological processes will appear.
Heart pathologies will appear, it will shrink less, dystrophy will appear in its tissues and cardiac obesity will appear. This will lead to cardialgia, chest discomfort, tachycardia and impaired respiratory function. The patient will become edematous, blood flow will deteriorate, blood pressure will increase. Violation of metabolic processes will lead to atherosclerotic changes, cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction.
If you are addicted to beer every day
Unlike vodka, beer is a less strong alcoholic beverage. Therefore, it is used by many people in large quantities. There are also many complications with daily beer consumption. The stomach will be chronically inflamed, which will manifest as pain and stiffness of the abdominal area and atrophy of the pancreas will occur.
This will lead to disruption of the digestive system. Large volumes of beer will lead to chronic inflammation of the liver without significant symptoms, leading to cirrhosis over time. Since beer has a diuretic effect, the kidneys will work hard, which will lead to leakage of magnesium and potassium.
Vitamin C will also be washed away, which will lead to heart failure, bone and joint structures will suffer and the immune system will be suppressed. The person will become less resistant to stress, more aggressive, irritable or groaning. Large doses of beer will lead to renal vascular sclerosis, hemorrhage and renal necrosis.
There will be problems with the cardiovascular system. Patients suffering from beer alcoholism will have varicose veins and the heart will become thick. Breathing will appear with less effort, blood pressure will rise, heart rate will be disturbed, ischemia will appear. Death from impaired cerebral circulation in beer alcoholism will double.
Excessive beer drinking will lead to male impotence, endocrine dysfunction due to the hormone progesterone. A man becomes more like a woman, his hair falls out and does not grow, his voice changes. Such an addiction to beer develops 4 times faster than to vodka, and it is more difficult to respond to therapeutic measures.
The person refuses to admit his addiction to beer. He believes that beer is beneficial to the body and links impotence to other reasons.
If you drink infrequently, only on holidays
Alcoholic beverages have different effects on people who drink every day and those who drink on rare occasions. The effect of alcoholic toxins on a patient with alcoholism and a person who drinks on rare occasions is very different. One dose of wine for a normal person in the amount of 100 g is equal to ½ liter of vodka for an alcohol dependent patient. An alcoholic is always very sensitive to alcohol, even if he stops using it.
After three decades of sober life, he will not be able to drink a little. After one glass of alcohol, the next will go, and so without stopping, a person is simply not able to stop. The reason for this is as follows. First, alcohol is oxidized in the liver cells to an acetaldehyde compound, so the patient's liver suffers more from daily alcohol consumption.
What affects frequent drinking?
Below is a review of how beverages affect the organs and systems of frequent use.
What will happen to the liver?
The acetaldehyde compound is highly toxic. Daily intoxication strains the liver, can not completely neutralize this toxic substance. A person suffering from alcoholism has a faster accumulation of alcohol metabolites, compared to a healthy person. Neutralization of these metabolites occurs slowly, they stay in the body for a long time.
Such intoxication causes a hangover syndrome, the patient is accustomed to ethanol. These changes in such a person will always be, the more he drinks alcohol the more aggravated his general condition.
A large accumulation of acetaldehyde compounds in the body of an alcoholic will continue for a long time compared to one who does not drink. Acetaldehyde is deposited not only in liver tissues but also in other organs.
This will lead to a persistent desire to get alcohol from an ethanol-dependent patient. Normal people do not have this desire. If you continue to drink excessive amounts of alcohol, then there will be liver cirrhosis. The organ shrinks, the vessels contract in the liver and the pressure increases, blood stagnation occurs. This leads to the fact that the walls of the organ will rupture, hemorrhage will occur, which will lead to death.
Non-alcoholic people get drunk on rare occasions, also rarely feel hangover syndrome, as their liver is functioning normally, it neutralizes alcohol toxins well.
How are brain structures affected?
When a person gets drunk, the cortical layer is destroyed, numbness and death of individual brain segments. In an alcoholic, edema, ulcerated wounds, and enlarged vessels are seen in the brain tissue. Numerous ruptures also appear, cysts form in necrotic segments.
Effects of ethanol on the central nervous system
If you drink excessive amounts of alcohol, then a person behaves differently, he degrades mentally and morally. The patient perceives reality inadequately, his attention is poorly focused. Also, nerve tissues perform fewer impulses, polyneuritis forms, movements are not well coordinated, the patient does not sleep well, he is unreasonably nervous, aggressive, has a fever.
It is delusional, disturbed by hallucinatory states, the person does not feel fever, pain, expresses hyperhidrosis. The pain often arises sharply, a person feels that ants are crawling on his skin, and muscle spasms are also disturbed. Lack of treatment will lead to changes in encephalopathy, alcoholic delirium, mental retardation, Korsakov psychosis and epileptic seizures.
Heart and blood vessels
Systematic use of alcohol will cause hypertrophy of the heart, its work will be disrupted, the rhythm will fail, ischemic processes, atherosclerotic, hypertension with myocardial infarction will appear.
What will happen to the kidneys?
If you drink vodka every day, the kidneys will be consumed faster and will also quickly lose their ability to work. Metabolic processes are disrupted, the blood will not be cleansed of toxic compounds, which will lead to poisoning. There is a high probability of the formation of pyelonephritic changes, inflammatory processes of the urinary system. Then there will be renal failure, stones and oncology will appear.
How is the gastrointestinal tract affected by the spleen?
Ethanol compounds are toxic to the digestive system. They will hit the walls of the esophagus, heartburn will occur, the desire to vomit will intensify, which will lead to the fact that the vessels of the esophagus begin to thin and expand. This will rupture the venous walls, hemorrhage will appear.
The gastric membrane will also suffer, will age faster, inflammatory, ulcerative and oncological processes will form. Dysfunction of the spleen, which uses destroyed blood cells, will occur. The spleen will become large, there will be suffocation, necrosis.
Immune system problems
Immunity will become depressed, which will weaken the body's defenses. The synthesis of lysozyme protein contained in saliva and tears is reduced, due to which pathogenic microorganisms are neutralized. A person will become susceptible to many infectious pathologies, his condition will worsen.
What will happen to the muscles and joints?
If you consume alcohol systematically, then there will be leakage of calcium, bone tissue will become brittle, often break down and osteoporotic changes will appear. The joints will also start to hurt. 75% of alcoholics develop arthritis, the next pleasure only adds to the pain. There is also a pronounced negative effect on the muscles. Muscle growth slows down or stops, muscle tissue will be destroyed. Weakness, atrophy will appear in them, but there will be more fat.
Fluid will leave the body slowly, edematous changes will occur. Uric acid will accumulate in the form of a hydrochloric acid and will begin to accumulate in the joints. This will lead to their inflammation, gout will appear. The more the patient drinks, the more painful sensations will appear. Excess fluid that penetrates the wrist sac puts pressure on the walls of the cavity and the nerve tissue is irritated. After a period of time, the joints deform.
Damage to the endocrine system
Alcoholism leads to endocrine dysfunction. In the female body, testosterone synthesis will increase, and estrogen and progesterone levels will decrease. Also, the ovaries will become painful, excess weight will be gained.
A woman's appearance will change with behavior, sleep will be disturbed, she will become aggressive, her muscle mass will increase and her hairline will become more visible.
How are the respiratory organs affected?
About 2% of the alcohol released in the form of vapor passes through the lung tissue. This leads to damage to the respiratory mucosa, inflammatory processes develop in the pharynx, larynx, bronchi and lungs. Pneumonia can be complicated by pneumosclerosis. Ethanol in the bloodstream dilates the lung tissue and develops emphysema.
What will happen to the vision?
As a result of exposure to ethanol, the type of intracranial pressure will increase, which is the cause of minor hemorrhages, and the vessels of the eye will be damaged. Hypoxic processes of excess eye muscle will occur and visual function will deteriorate. There is a gradual atrophy of the eye muscles, the optic nerve functions inadequately, the patient may become completely blind.
About the look
Alcoholism spoils a person's appearance:
- There is swelling under the eyeballs.
- The hair is messy.
- The nose has a bluish tinge.
- The face is swollen, bleeding from the strokes is noticed.
- Torn, dirty, smelly clothes.
Increased blood flow to tissue structures overloads the vessels, they are damaged. The small capillaries break. Red spots can be noticed on the face. The blue color of the skin appears due to damage to blood vessels, hypoxia. To extract ethanol, the body needs a lot of fluids, which is manifested by thirst in an alcoholic. After drinking water, it accumulates.
This is how the body reacts to possible dehydration. As a result, there is swelling of the facial area, in the limbs.
Lifespan for alcohol dependence
It is unequivocally difficult to say what the life expectancy of such patients will be. After all, every organism is individual. The life expectancy of such people is affected by various circumstances, for example, the dose, the quality of alcohol.
According to statistics, the duration of patients with alcoholism varies from 48 to 55 years. With drunken alcoholism, the use of alcoholic beverages in his youth, such a person will die even earlier. Patients who have the last stage of alcoholism are at high risk. They live no more than 6 years from the onset of the disease, death occurs from severe pathology.
Alcoholics often die:
- from oncology, perforated gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer;
- hepatitis, cirrhosis, fibrotic changes in the liver caused by alcohol;
- intestinal obstruction;
- acute disturbance of cerebral circulation caused by ischemia or hemorrhage;
- myocardiopathic changes, myocardial infarction, sudden coronary death;
- acute or chronic inflammation of the pancreas;
- sudden death during sleep;
- drunk suicide.
Intoxication with ethanol compounds can lead to death in people who are between 35 and 45 years old. All internal organs and systems will fail and a person's life will be shortened quickly. In order not to suffer from such a severe addiction, it is better to give up alcoholic beverages completely, then a person will avoid many problems and maintain his health.