Drinking alcohol daily causes alcoholism. The severity of complications from this serious disease depends on the dose, strength, quality parameters of alcohol, as well as the accompanying pathology of the patient, body weight, age and even sex. Today you will learn how harmful alcohol is, how long a patient suffering from alcoholism can live, how he suffers from the disease and then dies.
When do you need a stop?
Often, excessive drinking harms all systems of the body, but there is a misconception that if you drink alcohol in moderation, it will be useful. So, patients who justify themselves in front of everyone every day. Obviously, if you drink large doses of alcohol every day, the patient will die in the near future.
How often can you drink alcohol? 6 ‰ alcohol concentration is fatal for a person. It is obtained by drinking several 500 ml bottles of vodka in a short time. Even if a person has not been ill before, the state of intoxication will be a dysfunction of the whole organism. Alcohol is contraindicated in patients with hepatic, cardiovascular dysfunction.
What if you drink a lot of alcohol every day, can you drink often? Symptoms of alcohol dependence requiring immediate treatment:
- Drink a glass of vodka or more or a liter of beer daily.
- Regular meetings with friends who drink alcohol for any reason.
- Dysfunction of all body systems, an increase in beer belly.
- The patient uses alcohol to relax.
- A patient who drinks alcohol every morning is worried about hangover syndrome, which lasts for weeks.
About the complications of vodka
Drinking vodka daily will cause alcoholism. There will be irreversible pathological processes in the body:
- Kidney, liver, cardiovascular function will be impaired, and the digestive system will suffer.
- There will be disorders of the central nervous system, mental problems.
- A person's appearance will change, he will be exhausted, and the body will age faster.
Strong alcohol consumed daily will cause damage to brain structures, which will lead to psychosis and delirium.
Such patients will quickly forget everything, become inattentive and will not even feel how their intelligence will deteriorate. They will be self-contained and socially degraded. Large doses of vodka can cause paralysis, inflammation of the peripheral spinal cord and the development of radiculopathy.
The gastric mucosa is constantly burning, then becomes inflamed. Inflammatory processes will also occur in the entire 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 occur.
There will be pathologies of the heart, it will shrink less, there will be dystrophy in the tissues, there will be heart obesity. This will lead to cardialgia, chest discomfort, tachycardia and respiratory dysfunction. The patient will be edematous, blood flow will worsen, blood pressure will rise. Disruption 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 in large quantities by many people. There are many complications of daily beer consumption. The stomach will become chronically inflamed, which will manifest itself as pain and severity of the abdominal area, and atrophy of the pancreas will occur.
This will lead to digestive disorders. Large amounts of beer will lead to chronic hepatitis without significant symptoms and over time will lead to cirrhosis. Because beer has a diuretic effect, the kidneys will work harder, which will cause the leaching of magnesium and potassium.
Vitamin C will also be washed away, which will cause heart dysfunction, bone and joint structures will suffer, and the immune system will be compressed. The person will be less resistant to stress, more aggressive, irritable or wheezy. Large doses of beer can cause sclerosis of the renal vessels, bleeding and renal necrosis.
There will be problems in the cardiovascular system. Patients suffering from beer alcoholism will develop varicose veins and gain weight. At the slightest tension, shortness of breath will occur, blood pressure will rise, heart rhythm will be disturbed, and ischemia will occur. Beer alcoholism will double the death from cerebral circulatory disorders.
Excessive drinking of beer can lead to male impotence and endocrine dysfunction due to the hormone progesterone. The man looks more like a woman, his hair falls out and does not stretch, his voice changes. Such addiction to beer develops 4 times faster than vodka, and it is more difficult to respond to therapeutic measures.
Man refuses to admit his addiction to beer. He believes that beer is good for the body and connects impotence with other causes.
If you rarely drink, only on holidays
Alcohol has a different effect on people who drink it every day and rarely on those who drink it. The effects of alcohol toxins on a person who rarely drinks with a person with alcoholism are very different. A dose of 100 g of wine for a normal person is equal to ½ liters of vodka for an alcoholic patient. Alcoholics are always very sensitive to alcohol, even if they stop using it.
After three decades of sober life, he will not be able to drink a little. After a glass of alcohol will go to the next, and therefore a person simply can not stand without stopping. The reason for this is as follows. First, alcohol oxidizes to acetaldehyde compounds in liver cells, so the patient's liver suffers the most from daily alcohol consumption.
What is the effect of frequent drinking?
Below is how the frequent use of alcohol affects the internal organs and systems.
What will happen to the liver?
Acetaldehyde compounds are very toxic. Daily intoxication strains the liver, it can not completely neutralize the toxin. A person suffering from alcoholism has a faster accumulation of alcohol metabolites than a healthy person. Neutralization of these metabolites occurs slowly, they remain in the body for a long time.
Such intoxication causes hangover, the patient becomes accustomed to ethanol. Such a person will always have these changes, the more alcohol he drinks, the worse his general condition will be.
A large accumulation of acetaldehyde compounds in the body of an alcoholic will last longer than in a non-drinker. Acetaldehyde accumulates not only in liver tissue, but also in other organs.
This will cause a patient who is addicted to ethanol to constantly want to drink alcohol. Normal people do not have this desire. If you continue to drink too much alcohol, you will have cirrhosis of the liver. The body shrinks, the arteries constrict in the liver and the pressure increases, blood stasis occurs. This causes the walls of the body to rupture, causing bleeding and death.
Non-alcoholic people rarely get drunk, and they rarely experience hangover syndrome because their liver functions normally, and alcohol neutralizes toxins well.
How are brain structures affected?
When a person is intoxicated, the cortical layer is destroyed, and different segments of the brain become numb and die. Alcohol, edema of brain tissue, scarring and varicose veins are observed. Numerous fractures also manifest themselves, cysts form in necrotic segments.
Effects of ethanol on the central nervous system
If you drink too much alcohol, then the person behaves differently, mentally and spiritually. The patient perceives reality inadequately, has poor concentration. Also, the nerve tissue conducts less impulses, polyneuritis occurs, movements are poorly coordinated, the patient does not sleep well, is unreasonably nervous, aggressive, has a fever.
He is dreamy, anxious with hallucinations, the person does not feel fever, pain, hyperhidrosis is expressed. The pain is often acute, a person feels ants crawling on the skin, and muscle spasms are also disturbing. Lack of treatment can lead to changes in encephalopathy, alcoholic delirium, mental retardation, Korsakov's psychosis and epileptic seizures.
Heart and blood vessels
Systematic use of alcohol will lead to hypertrophy of the heart, its function will be disrupted, rhythm will be disturbed, ischemic, atherosclerotic processes, hypertension with myocardial infarction will occur.
What will happen to the kidneys?
If you drink vodka every day, the kidneys wear out faster and they also lose their ability to work quickly. Metabolic processes are disrupted, the blood will not be cleansed of toxic compounds, which will lead to poisoning. There is a high probability of pyelonephric changes, the formation of inflammatory processes in the urinary system. Then there will be kidney failure, stones and oncology will appear.
How does the gastrointestinal tract affect the spleen?
Ethanol compounds are toxic to the digestive system. They will hit the walls of the esophagus, heartburn will occur, the urge to vomit will intensify, which will cause the vessels of the esophagus to begin to thin and dilate. This will break the venous walls and bleeding will appear.
The gastric mucosa will also suffer, it will age faster, there will be inflammatory, ulcerative, oncological processes. Dysfunction of the spleen, which uses the destroyed blood cells, will occur. The spleen will grow, there will be pus, necrosis.
Immune system problems
Immunity will be depressed, which will weaken the body's defenses. The synthesis of lysozyme protein in saliva and tears is reduced, as a result of which pathogenic microorganisms are neutralized. A person will be susceptible to many infectious pathologies, the condition will worsen.
What will happen to the muscles and joints?
If you consume alcohol systematically, then calcium leaching will occur, bone tissue will become brittle, it will often break down, and osteoporosis changes will occur. Joints will also begin to ache. 75% of alcoholics develop arthritis, the next drink only increases the pain. There is also a clear negative effect on the muscles. If muscle growth slows or stops, muscle tissue will be destroyed. They will appear flabbiness, atrophy, but will have more fat.
Fluid will be slowly removed from the body, and edematous changes will occur. Uric acid will accumulate in the form of hydrochloric acid and begin to accumulate in the joints. This will cause them to become inflamed and gout will appear. The more the patient drinks, the more painful the symptoms will be. Excess fluid that penetrates the joint sac puts pressure on the walls of the cavity, irritating the nerve tissue. After a while, the joints become deformed.
Endocrine system damage
Alcoholism causes endocrine dysfunction. In women, testosterone synthesis will increase, estrogen and progesterone levels will decrease. Also, the ovaries will be painful, you will gain weight.
A woman's appearance will change with behavior, sleep will be disturbed, she will become more aggressive, her muscle mass will increase, and her hairstyle will become more noticeable.
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 mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, the development of inflammatory processes in the pharynx, larynx, bronchi and lungs. Pneumonia can be complicated by pneumosclerosis. Ethanol in the bloodstream expands lung tissue and emphysema develops.
What will happen to vision?
As a result of ethanol, intracranial pressure, which causes minor bleeding, will increase and the blood vessels in the eye will be damaged. Hypoxic processes in overworked eye muscles will occur and visual function will deteriorate. There is a gradual atrophy of the eye muscles, the optic nerve is not working properly, the patient may be completely blind.
About appearance
Alcoholism spoils a person's appearance:
- There is swelling under the eyeballs.
- The hair is disheveled.
- The nose has a bluish color.
- The face is swollen, bleeding is observed from the blows.
- Clothes are torn, dirty, smelly.
Increased blood flow to the tissue structures overloads and damages the blood vessels. Small capillaries are broken. Red spots can be observed on the face. The blue color of the skin is due to vascular damage and hypoxia. The body needs a lot of fluid to secrete ethanol, which is manifested by thirst in alcoholic beverages. It is collected after drinking water.
This is the body's reaction to possible dehydration. As a result, there is swelling in the face and limbs.
Life expectancy for alcohol dependence
It is difficult to say unequivocally how long such patients will live. After all, each organism is individual. The lives of such people are affected by various conditions, such as dosage and quality of alcohol.
According to statistics, the duration of patients suffering from alcoholism is from 48 to 55 years. Such a person will die earlier due to alcoholism and the use of alcohol in his youth. Patients with end-stage alcoholism are at higher risk. They do not live more than 6 years from the onset of the disease, death occurs from severe pathologies.
Alcoholics often die:
- from oncology, perforated gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer;
- hepatitis, cirrhosis, fibrotic changes in the liver caused by alcohol;
- intestinal obstruction;
- acute cerebrovascular accident as a result of ischemia or bleeding;
- myocardiopathic changes, myocardial infarction, sudden coronary death;
- acute or chronic inflammation of the pancreas;
- sudden death during sleep;
- drunken suicide.
Ethanol intoxication can be fatal in people aged 35-45 years. All internal organs and systems will fail, and a person's life will soon be shortened. It is better to abstain from alcohol completely in order not to suffer from such a severe addiction, then a person will avoid many problems and protect their health.