Drinking alcohol every day leads to alcoholism. The severity of the complications of this serious disease depends on the dosage of alcohol, its strength, quality parameters, as well as the patient's concomitant pathologies, his body weight, age and even sex. Today you will find out how harmful alcohol is, for what period a patient suffering from alcoholism can live, how he suffers from the disease and subsequently dies.
When is a stop necessary?
Frequent and immeasurable consumption damages all systems of the body, but there is a misconception that if you drink alcohol in moderation, it will be beneficial. So, say those patients who justify themselves in front of everyone on a daily basis. It is obvious that if you take alcohol every day in large doses, the patient will die in the near future.
How often can you drink alcohol? An alcohol concentration of 6% is fatal for a person. It is achieved by drinking a couple of 500ml bottles of vodka in a short time. There will be a state of intoxication, dysfunction of the whole organism, even when the person has not been sick before. It is forbidden to take alcoholic beverages for patients with hepatic, cardiac and vascular dysfunction.
What if you drink a lot of alcohol every day, can you drink alcohol often? The signs of alcohol addiction that require immediate treatment are:
- Drink a bottle of vodka or more, or a liter of beer every day.
- Constant meetings for whatever reason with drinking buddies who drink alcohol with an alcoholic.
- Dysfunction of all systems of the body, increased beer belly.
- The patient uses alcohol to relax.
- Every morning, a patient who consumes alcohol is worried about a hangover syndrome, the binges last for weeks.
On the complications caused by vodka
Drinking vodka every day will cause alcoholism. Pathological processes will arise in the body that will become irreversible:
- Renal, hepatic, cardiovascular dysfunction will begin, and the digestive system will also suffer from it.
- There will be central nervous system malfunctions, mental problems.
- A person's appearance will change, he will wear out, the body will age faster.
As a result of strong alcohol consumed daily, damage to brain structures will appear, which will lead to psychosis, delirium tremens.
Such patients will not even notice how quickly they will begin to forget everything, become inattentive, and their intellect will deteriorate. They will become self-sufficient, socially degraded. Large dosages of vodka will lead to the fact that a person will remain paralyzed, his peripheral and spinal nerve fibers become inflamed, and radiculopathy will develop.
The gastric mucosa will be constantly burned, subsequently 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.
Pathologies of the heart will appear, it will contract less, dystrophy will appear in its tissues and cardiac obesity will appear. This will lead to heart pain, chest discomfort, tachycardia, and reduced respiratory function. The patient will become edematous, his blood flow will deteriorate, his blood pressure will rise. Violation of metabolic processes will lead to atherosclerotic changes, cerebral hemorrhage, myocardial infarction.
If you get addicted to beer every day
Unlike vodka, beer is a less strong alcoholic drink. 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 severity in the abdominal area, and atrophy of the pancreas will occur.
This will lead to the breakdown of the digestive system. Large volumes of beer will lead to chronic liver inflammation without significant symptoms, leading to cirrhosis over time. Since beer has a diuretic effect, the kidneys will work hard, which will lead to the leaching of magnesium and potassium.
Vitamin C will also be eliminated, 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 whiny. Large doses of beer will lead to renal vascular sclerosis, hemorrhages 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 obese. Shortness of breath will appear at the slightest exertion, blood pressure will rise, the heart rhythm will be disturbed, ischemia will appear. Death from impaired cerebral circulation in beer alcoholism will double.
Excessive consumption of beer will lead to male impotence, endocrine dysfunction due to the hormone progesterone. A man becomes more like a woman, his hair falls out and doesn't grow, his voice changes. Such addiction to beer develops 4 times faster than 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 for the body and associates impotence with other reasons.
If you drink infrequently, only on holidays
Alcoholic beverages have different effects on people who drink every day and on those who drink on rare occasions. The effect of alcoholic toxins on a patient with alcoholism and on a person who drinks in rare cases is very different. A dosage of wine for a normal person in the amount of 100 g is equivalent 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 living, she won't be able to drink a little. After a glass of alcohol, the next will go, and therefore without stopping, a person simply is 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 the most from daily alcohol consumption.
What Affects Frequent Drinking?
The following is considered how drinks affect internal organs and systems with frequent use.
What will happen to the liver?
The acetaldehyde compound is highly toxic. Daily drunkenness strains the liver, it cannot completely neutralize this toxic substance. A person suffering from alcoholism has a rapid build-up of alcohol metabolites, compared to a healthy person. Neutralization of these metabolites occurs slowly, they remain in the body for a long time.
Such intoxication provokes a hangover syndrome, the patient gets used 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 persist for a long time compared to a non-drinker. Acetaldehyde is deposited not only in liver tissue, but also in other organs.
This will lead to a constant desire to consume alcohol from an ethanol dependent patient. Normal people don't have this desire. If you continue to drink alcohol immensely, then there will be liver cirrhosis. The organ shrinks, the vessels contract in the liver and the pressure rises, blood stagnation occurs. This leads to the fact that the walls of the organ will rupture, bleeding will occur, which will lead to death.
Non-alcoholic people get drunk in rare cases, they rarely even feel a hangover syndrome, as their liver functions normally, neutralizes alcoholic toxins well.
How are brain structures affected?
When a person gets drunk, the cortical layer is destroyed, numbness and death of the individual segments of the brain. In an alcoholic, edema, scarred ulcers and dilated vessels on the brain tissue are observed. Numerous ruptures also occur, cysts are formed on necrotic segments.
Effects of ethanol on the central nervous system
If you drink alcohol immensely, then a person behaves differently, mentally and morally degrades. The patient perceives reality inadequately, his attention is poorly concentrated. In addition, the nerve tissues conduct fewer impulses, polyneuritis is formed, the movements are poorly coordinated, the patient does not sleep well, is unreasonably irritable, aggressive, has a fever.
He is delusional, he is disturbed by hallucinatory states, the person does not feel temperature, pain, hyperhidrosis is expressed. Pain often manifests itself sharply, a person feels that ants crawl on his skin, and muscle spasms are also disturbed. Lack of treatment will lead to changes in encephalopathy, alcoholic delirium, mental retardation, Korsakov's psychosis and 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, atherosclerotic processes, hypertension with myocardial infarction will occur.
What will happen to the kidneys?
If you drink vodka every day, your kidneys will wear out faster and will quickly lose their working capacity as well. Metabolic processes are disrupted, the blood will not be cleared 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 kidney failure, stones and oncology will appear.
How is the gastrointestinal tract affected by the spleen?
The compounds of ethanol are toxic to the digestive system. They will affect the esophageal walls, heartburn will occur, the urge to vomit will intensify, which will lead to the fact that the vessels of the esophagus will begin to thin and expand. This will rupture the venous walls, bleeding will appear.
The gastric membrane will also suffer from it, it will age faster, inflammatory, ulcerative and oncological processes will form. A dysfunction of the spleen will occur, which uses the destroyed blood cells. The spleen will become large, there will be suppuration, necrosis.
Problems with the immune system
Immunity will become depressed, which will weaken the body's defenses. The synthesis of the lysozyme protein contained in saliva and tears decreases, 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, there will be a leaching of calcium, the bone tissue will become fragile, often break down and osteoporotic changes will appear. Your joints will also start to ache. 75% of alcoholics develop arthritis, the next binge only increases the pain. There is also a pronounced negative effect on the muscles. Muscle growth slows or stops, muscle tissue will be destroyed. In them will appear flabbiness, atrophy, but there will be more fat.
The fluid will be slowly removed from the body, edematous changes will occur. Uric acid will build up in the form of hydrochloric acid and start building up in the joints. This will lead to their inflammation, gout will appear. The more the patient drinks, the more painful sensations will arise. Excess fluid entering the joint sac exerts pressure on the cavity walls and nerve tissues are 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. In addition, the ovaries will become painful, excess weight will be gained.
A woman's appearance will change with her behavior, sleep will be disturbed, she will become aggressive, her muscle mass will increase, and her hairline will become more noticeable.
How are the respiratory organs affected?
About 2% of the alcohol released as vapor passes through the lung tissue. This leads to damage to the respiratory mucosa, inflammatory processes of the pharynx, larynx, bronchi and lungs develop. Pneumonia can be complicated by pneumosclerosis. Ethanol in the bloodstream expands lung tissue and emphysema develops.
What will happen to the sight?
As a result of exposure to ethanol, the type of intracranial pressure, which is the cause of minor bleeding, will increase, and the eye vessels will be damaged. Hypoxic processes of overloaded eye muscles will occur, and visual function will deteriorate. There is a gradual atrophy of the eye muscles, the optic nerve functions inadequately, the patient can become completely blind.
About appearance
Alcoholism spoils the appearance of a person:
- There is swelling under the eyeballs.
- The hair is matted.
- The nose has a bluish tinge.
- The face is swollen, bleeding from blows is observed.
- Torn, dirty, smelly clothes.
Increased blood flow to tissue structures overloads the vessels, they are damaged. Small capillaries break. Red spots may be observed on the face. The blue color of the skin appears due to vascular damage, hypoxia. To excrete ethanol, the body needs a lot of fluids, which are manifested by thirst in an alcoholic. After drinking the water, it builds up.
This is how the body reacts to possible dehydration. As a result, there is swelling of the facial area, on the limbs.
Lifespan for alcohol addiction
It is unequivocally difficult to say what the life expectancy of such patients will be. After all, each organism is individual. The life span of these people is affected by various circumstances, for example, dosage, quality of alcohol.
According to statistics, the life span of patients with alcoholism ranges from 48 to 55 years. With drunken alcoholism, the use of alcoholic beverages in his youth, such a person will die even earlier. Patients with late stage alcoholism are at high risk. They live no more than 6 years from the onset of the disease, death occurs from serious 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 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;
- intoxicated suicide.
Poisoning from ethanol compounds can lead to death in people between the ages of 35 and 45. All internal organs and systems will fail, and a person's life will quickly shorten. In order not to suffer from such a serious addiction, it is better to give up alcoholic beverages altogether, then a person will avoid a lot of problems and keep his health.