Daily alcohol consumption 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 concomitant pathologies of the patient, body weight, age and even sex. Today you will find out how harmful alcohol is, how long a patient with alcoholism can live, how he suffers from the disease and subsequently dies.
When is a stop needed?
Frequent and immeasurable consumption harms all systems in the body, but there is a mistaken view that if you drink alcohol in moderation, it will be beneficial. So say these patients who justify themselves daily in front of everyone. It is obvious that if you take alcohol in large doses daily, 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 reached when a few 500 ml bottles of vodka are drunk in a short time. There will be a state of intoxication, a dysfunction of the whole organism, even if the person has never been sick before. It is forbidden to take alcoholic beverages for patients with liver, heart and vascular disorders.
What if you drink a lot of alcohol every day, can you drink alcohol often? Signs of alcohol dependence that require immediate treatment are:
- Daily consumption of one or more bottles of vodka, or one liter of beer.
- Constant gatherings for some reason with drinking companions who drink alcohol with an alcoholic.
- Dysfunction of all body systems, increased beer belly.
- The patient drinks alcohol to relax.
- Every morning a patient who consumes alcohol worries about a hangover syndrome, binge eating attacks last for weeks.
About complications caused by vodka
Drinking vodka daily will cause alcoholism. Pathological processes will appear in the body that will become irreversible:
- Renal, hepatic, cardiovascular dysfunction will begin and the digestive system will suffer as well.
- There will be central nervous system dysfunctions, mental problems.
- A person's appearance will change, he will become exhausted, the body will age faster.
As a result of daily consumption of strong alcohol, 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 autonomous, socially degraded. Large doses of vodka will lead to the fact that a person will become paralyzed, their peripheral spinal nerve fibers will become inflamed, and radiculopathy will develop.
The gastric mucosa will constantly become burnt and then 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 cardialgia, chest discomfort, tachycardia, and impaired respiratory function. The patient will become edematous, his blood flow will deteriorate, his blood pressure will increase. 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 weaker alcoholic drink. Hence, it is used by many people in large quantities. There are also many complications with the daily consumption of beer. The stomach will be chronically inflamed, which will manifest as pain and severity in the abdominal area, and pancreatic atrophy will occur.
This will lead to disruption of the digestive system. Large amounts of beer will cause 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 leach out magnesium and potassium.
Vitamin C will also be eliminated, which will lead to heart dysfunction, 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 cause renal vascular sclerosis, hemorrhages and kidney necrosis.
There will be problems with the cardiovascular system. Patients with alcoholism from beer will have varicose veins and the heart will become obese. Shortness of breath will appear with the slightest exertion, blood pressure will increase, the heart rate will be disturbed, ischemia will appear. Death due to impaired cerebral circulation in beer alcoholism will double.
Excessive beer consumption 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 addiction to beer grows 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 good for the body and links impotence to other reasons.
If you drink infrequently, only on public holidays
Alcoholic beverages have different effects on people who drink every day and those who drink on rare occasions. The effect of alcohol toxins on an alcoholic patient and a person who drinks in rare cases is very different. A dosage of wine for a normal person at a rate of 100 g is equivalent to ½ liter of vodka for an alcoholic patient. An alcoholic is always very sensitive to alcohol, even if he stops using it.
After three decades of sober life, he will no longer be able to drink a little. After one drink of alcohol, the next one goes away, and therefore without stopping, a person is simply not able to stop. The reason for this is as follows. First, alcohol is oxidized in liver cells to an acetaldehyde compound, so that the patient's liver suffers the most from daily alcohol consumption.
What does frequent alcohol consumption affect?
The following is considered how the drinks affect internal organs and systems with frequent use.
What will happen to the liver?
The acetaldehyde compound is highly toxic. Daily drunkenness stresses 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. The neutralization of these metabolites takes place slowly, they remain in the body for a long time.
Such intoxication causes 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 his general condition worsens.
A significant build-up 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 take alcohol in an ethanol dependent patient. Normal people don't have this desire. If you continue to drink a lot of alcohol, there will be liver cirrhosis. The organ shrinks, the vessels constrict 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 in rare cases, they also rarely experience hangover syndrome, because 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, causing numbness and death of individual segments of the brain. In an alcoholic, edema, ulcers with scars and dilated vessels are observed on the brain tissue. There are also many ruptures, cysts are formed on the necrotic segments.
Effects of ethanol on the central nervous system
If you drink a lot of alcohol, a person behaves differently, they deteriorate mentally and morally. The patient perceives reality poorly, his attention is poorly focused. In addition, the nervous tissues conduct less impulses, polyneuritis is formed, the movements are poorly coordinated, the patient does not sleep well, he is unreasonably irritable, aggressive, he has a fever.
He is delusional, he is disturbed by hallucinatory states, the person does not feel temperature, pain, hyperhidrosis is expressed. Pain often comes on suddenly, a person feels like 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 consumption of alcohol will cause an enlarged heart, its work will be disturbed, 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, the kidneys will wear out faster, and they will also quickly lose their ability to work. Metabolic processes are disturbed, the blood will not be rid of toxic compounds, which will lead to poisoning. There is a high probability of the formation of pyelonephritic changes, inflammatory processes in the urinary system. Then there will be kidney failure, stones and oncology will appear.
How is the gastrointestinal tract affected along with 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 lead to the fact that the vessels in the esophagus will begin to thin and dilate. This will rupture the venous walls, a hemorrhage will appear.
The gastric membrane will also suffer, it will age faster, inflammatory, ulcerative and oncological processes will be formed. Dysfunction of the spleen will occur, which uses up the destroyed blood cells. The spleen will become large, there will be suppuration, 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 decreases, which neutralizes pathogenic microorganisms. A person will become susceptible to many infectious pathologies, his condition will worsen.
What will happen to the muscles and joints?
If you systematically consume alcohol, then there will be leaching of calcium, the bone tissue will become fragile, it will often break down, and osteoporotic changes will appear. The joints will also start to hurt. 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 down or stops, muscle tissue will be destroyed. Flaccidity, atrophy will appear in them, but there will be more fat.
Fluid will be withdrawn from the body slowly, edematous changes will occur. Uric acid will build up as hydrochloric acid and start to build up in the joints. This will lead to their inflammation, gout will appear. The more the patient drinks, the more painful sensations will appear. The excess fluid that enters the joint bag puts pressure on the walls of the cavity and the nerve tissue is irritated. After a while, the joints become deformed.
Damage to the endocrine system
Alcoholism leads to endocrine dysfunction. In the female body, the synthesis of testosterone will increase and the levels of estrogen and progesterone will decrease. In addition, the ovaries will become sore, 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 the hairline will become more visible.
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 dilates lung tissue and emphysema develops.
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 bleeding, and the eye vessels will be damaged. Hypoxic processes of overworked eye muscles will occur, and visual function will deteriorate. There is progressive atrophy of the eye muscles, the optic nerve is malfunctioning, the patient may become 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 tinge.
- The face is swollen, stroke hemorrhages are observed.
- Torn, dirty, smelly clothes.
The increased blood flow to the tissue structures overloads the vessels, they are damaged. The small capillaries break. Red dots can be seen on the face. The blue color of the skin appears due to vascular damage, hypoxia. To excrete ethanol, the body needs a lot of fluid, 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, on the limbs.
Lifespan of alcohol addiction
It is unequivocally difficult to say what will be the life expectancy of these patients. After all, each organism is individual. The lifespan of such people is influenced by various circumstances, for example, dosage, quality of alcohol.
According to statistics, the duration of alcoholic patients varies from 48 to 55 years. With drunk alcoholism, the consumption 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 do not live more than 6 years after the onset of the disease, death occurs as a result of serious pathologies.
Alcoholics often die:
- 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;
- cardiomyopathic changes, myocardial infarction, sudden coronary death;
- acute or chronic inflammation of the pancreas;
- sudden death during sleep;
- suicide while intoxicated.
Poisoning with ethanol compounds can lead to death in people between 35 and 45 years of age. All internal organs and systems will fail, and a person's life will be quickly shortened. In order not to suffer from such a serious addiction, it is better to completely abandon alcoholic beverages, then a person will avoid many problems and preserve his health.