Daily alcohol consumption 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 concomitant pathologies of the patient, his body weight, age and even gender. Today you will find out how harmful alcohol is, how long a person with alcoholism can live, how he gets sick and then dies.
When is stopping necessary?
Frequent, immeasurable drinking harms all body systems, but there is a misconception that if you drink alcohol in moderation, it will be beneficial. So say those patients who justify themselves to everyone every day. Obviously, if you drink large doses of alcohol daily, then the patient will die in the near future.
How often can you drink alcohol? An alcohol concentration of 6 ‰ is fatal to humans. It is achieved when several bottles of 500 ml of vodka are drunk for a short period. 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 drink alcohol in patients with liver, heart 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:
- Drink a bottle of vodka or more daily, or a liter of beer.
- Regular gatherings for any reason with comrades who drink alcohol with an alcoholic.
- Dysfunction of all body systems, enlargement of the beer belly.
- The patient uses alcohol to relax.
- Every morning, a patient who consumes alcohol worries about hangover syndrome, overeating lasts for weeks.
About the complications caused by vodka
Drinking vodka daily leads to alcoholism. Pathological processes will occur in the body that will become irreversible:
- Renal, liver, cardiovascular dysfunction will begin, and the digestive system will suffer.
- There will be malfunctions in the central nervous system, mental problems.
- A person's appearance will change, he will run out, the body will age faster.
As a result of daily consumption of strong alcohol will damage the brain structures, which will lead to psychosis, delirium tremens.
Such patients will not even notice how quickly they will begin to forget everything, will become inattentive and their intellect will deteriorate. They will become independent, 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 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 occur.
Pathologies of the heart will appear, it will shrink less, dystrophy will appear in its tissues and heart obesity will appear. This will lead to cardialgia, chest discomfort, tachycardia and impaired respiratory function. The patient will become swollen, his blood circulation will deteriorate, his 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 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 heaviness in the abdominal area and atrophy of the pancreas will occur.
This will lead to disruption of the digestive system. Large amounts of beer will lead to chronic inflammation of the liver without significant symptoms, leading to cirrhosis over time. Because beer has a diuretic effect, the kidneys will work hard, which will lead to the extraction of magnesium and potassium.
Vitamin C will also be washed away, which will lead to heart dysfunction, bone and joint structures will be damaged, 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, 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 be obese. At the slightest effort, shortness of breath will occur, blood pressure will rise, heart rate will be disturbed, ischemia will occur. Deaths from impaired cerebral circulation in beer alcoholism will double.
Excessive drinking of beer will lead to male impotence, endocrine dysfunction due to the hormone progesterone. The man becomes more like a woman, his hair falls out and does not grow, his voice changes. Such dependence on beer develops 4 times faster than on vodka and is more difficult to respond to therapeutic measures.
The man refuses to admit that he is addicted to beer. He believes that beer is good for the body and connects impotence with other causes.
If you drink infrequently, only on holidays
Alcohol has a different effect on people who drink every day and those who drink on rare occasions. The effect of alcohol toxins on a patient with alcoholism and a person who drinks in rare cases is very different. One dose of wine for a normal person in an amount of 100 g is equal to ½ liter of vodka for an alcoholic patient. The alcoholic is always very sensitive to alcohol, even if he stops using it.
After three decades of sober living, he will not be able to drink a little. After one glass of alcohol follows the next and so, without stopping, one simply cannot stop. The reason for this is as follows. First, the 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 discusses how beverages affect internal organs and systems with frequent use.
What will happen to the liver?
The acetaldehyde compound is highly toxic. Daily drunkenness burdens the liver, it can not completely neutralize this toxic substance. A person suffering from alcoholism has a rapid accumulation of alcohol metabolites compared to a healthy person. Neutralization of these metabolites is slow, 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 worse his general condition.
A large accumulation of acetaldehyde compounds in the body of an alcoholic will last a long time compared to non-drinkers. Acetaldehyde is deposited not only in the liver tissue but also in other organs.
This will lead to a constant desire to drink alcohol from an ethanol-dependent patient. Normal people do not have this desire. If you continue to drink a lot of alcohol, then there will be cirrhosis of the liver. The organ shrinks, the vessels in the liver constrict and the pressure rises, blood stasis occurs. This leads to the fact that the walls of the organ will rupture, bleeding will occur, which will lead to death.
People without alcohol get drunk in rare cases, and rarely experience a hangover syndrome, as their liver functions normally, neutralizes alcohol toxins well.
How are brain structures affected?
When a person gets drunk, the cortical layer is destroyed, tingling and death of certain segments of the brain. In an alcoholic, swelling, scarring and dilated blood vessels are observed on the brain tissue. Numerous ruptures also occur, and cysts form on the necrotic segments.
Effects of ethanol on the central nervous system
If you drink alcohol extremely much, then a person behaves differently, he mentally and morally degrades. The patient perceives reality inadequately, his attention is poorly concentrated. Also, the nervous tissues conduct fewer impulses, polyneuritis is formed, the movements are poorly coordinated, the patient does not sleep well, he is unreasonably irritable, aggressive, has a fever.
He is deluded, disturbed by hallucinatory states, the person does not feel fever, pain, pronounced hyperhidrosis. The pain often occurs abruptly, a person feels ants crawling on his skin, and muscle spasms are also disrupted. Lack of treatment will lead to changes in encephalopathy, alcoholic delirium, mental retardation, Korsakov's 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, atherosclerotic processes will occur, hypertension with myocardial infarction.
What will happen to the kidneys?
If you drink vodka every day, your kidneys will wear out faster and you will also lose your ability to work quickly. 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 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 appear, the desire to vomit will increase, which will lead to the fact that the vessels of the esophagus begin to thin and expand. This will rupture the venous walls, bleeding will occur.
The gastric membrane will also suffer, it will age faster, inflammatory, ulcerative and oncological processes will form. There will be dysfunction of the spleen, which uses the destroyed blood cells. The spleen will become large, there will be suppuration, necrosis.
Immune system problems
Immunity will be suppressed, which will weaken the body's defenses. The synthesis of lysozyme protein contained in saliva and tears is reduced, 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 regularly consume alcohol, then there will be leaching of calcium, bone tissue will become brittle, often disintegrate and osteoporotic changes will occur. The joints will also start to hurt. 75% of alcoholics develop arthritis, the next overeating only increases the pain. It also has a pronounced negative effect on muscles. Muscle growth slows or stops, muscle tissue will be destroyed. They will have slackness, atrophy, but there will be more fat.
The fluid will be removed from the body slowly, swelling will occur. Uric acid will accumulate in the form of 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 enters the joint sac puts pressure on the walls of the cavity and irritates the nerve tissue. After a while, the joints become deformed.
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, you will gain weight.
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 noticeable.
How are the respiratory organs affected?
About 2% of the alcohol released in the form of steam passes through the lung tissue. This leads to damage to the respiratory mucosa, inflammatory processes develop in the pharynx, larynx, bronchi, lungs. Pneumonia can be complicated by pneumosclerosis. Ethanol in the blood dilates the lung tissue and emphysema develops.
What will happen to the vision?
As a result of ethanol exposure, the intracranial type of pressure will increase, which causes minor bleeding and will damage the eye vessels. Hypoxic processes of overstretched eye muscles will occur and visual function will deteriorate. There is a gradual atrophy of the eye muscles, the optic nerve is not functioning properly, the patient may become completely blind.
About the 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, bleeding from blows is observed.
- Clothes torn, dirty, smelly.
Increased blood flow to tissue structures overloads the vessels, they are damaged. Small capillaries break. Red spots can be seen on the face. Blue skin color occurs due to vascular damage, hypoxia. To excrete 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 in the face, limbs.
Life expectancy 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 influenced by various circumstances, such as dosage, 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 end-stage alcoholism are at high risk. They live no 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 caused by ischemia or hemorrhage;
- myocardiopathic changes, myocardial infarction, sudden coronary death;
- acute or chronic inflammation of the pancreas;
- sudden death during sleep;
- suicide while intoxicated.
Ethanol intoxication 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 be quickly shortened. In order not to suffer from such a heavy addiction, it is better to completely give up alcohol, then a person will avoid many problems and maintain their health.