Drinking alcohol on a daily basis leads to alcoholism. The severity of complications from this serious disease depends on the dosage of alcohol, its dosage, quality parameters, as well as the patient's concomitant pathologies, body weight, age and even sex. Today you will discover how harmful alcohol is, how long a patient suffering from alcoholism can live, how he suffers from illnesses and then dies.
When is a stop required?
Frequent and immeasurable consumption of alcohol damages all of the body's systems, but there is a misconception that if you drink alcohol in moderation, it will be beneficial. So, say those patients who daily justify themselves in front of everyone. It is obvious that if you drink alcohol daily in large doses, in the near future the patient will die.
How often can you drink alcohol? An alcohol concentration of 6 ‰ is fatal for a person. This is achieved when two 500 ml bottles of vodka are drunk in a short period. There will be a state of intoxication, dysfunction of the whole organism, even when the person has never been ill before. It is forbidden to drink alcoholic beverages for patients with liver, 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:
- Drink a bottle of vodka or more daily, or a liter of beer.
- Constant meetings for any reason with fellow drinkers with an alcoholic.
- Dysfunction of all systems in the body, enlargement of the beer belly.
- The patient uses alcohol to relax.
- Every morning a patient who consumes alcohol is worried about a hangover syndrome, the binge lasting for weeks.
About complications caused by vodka
Drinking vodka daily causes alcoholism. Pathological processes will arise in the body that will become irreversible:
- Kidney, liver, and cardiovascular dysfunction will begin and the digestive system will suffer as well.
- There will be malfunctions of the central nervous system, mental problems.
- A person's appearance will change, he will wear out, the body will age faster.
As a result of the daily consumption of strong alcohol, damage to the brain structures arises, which leads to psychosis, delirium tremens.
These patients will not even realize how quickly they will start to forget everything, they will become inattentive and their intellect will deteriorate. They will become self-sufficient, socially degraded. Large doses of vodka can lead to the person becoming paralyzed, spinal and peripheral nerve fibers becoming inflamed, and radiculopathy will develop.
The gastric mucosa will be constantly burned and later inflamed. Inflammatory processes will also occur throughout the intestinal tract. The liver will not be able to completely neutralize the toxic compounds in alcohol, its cellular structures will die, cirrhosis or cancer 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 swollen, 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 beverage. Therefore, it is used by many people in large amounts. There are also many complications with daily beer consumption. The stomach will become chronically inflamed, which will manifest as pain and severity in the abdominal area, and atrophy of the pancreas will occur.
This will lead to disturbance of the digestive system. Large volumes of beer lead to chronic liver inflammation without significant symptoms, leading to cirrhosis over time. As beer has a diuretic effect, the kidneys work a lot, which leads to the leaching of magnesium and potassium.
Vitamin C will also be depleted, which will lead to cardiac 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 can cause 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 effort, blood pressure will increase, heart rate will change, ischemia will appear. Death from impaired cerebral circulation in beer alcoholism will double.
Excessive beer consumption can lead to male impotence, endocrine dysfunction due to the hormone progesterone. The man is more like the woman, his hair falls out and doesn't grow, his voice changes. This dependence on beer develops 4 times faster than that on vodka, making it 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 associates impotence with other reasons.
If you rarely drink, 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 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 life, he won't be able to drink any more. After one glass of alcohol, the next one goes away, and like that, over and over, the person just can't stop. The reason for this is as follows. First, alcohol is oxidized in liver cells to an acetaldehyde compound, so the patient's liver suffers more from daily alcohol consumption.
What does frequent alcohol consumption affect?
Next, it is considered how beverages affect the internal organs and systems with frequent use.
What will happen to the liver?
The acetaldehyde compound is highly toxic. Daily drunkenness overloads the liver, it cannot 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 occurs slowly, they remain in the body for a long time.
This 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 buildup of acetaldehyde compounds in an alcoholic's body 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 craving to drink alcohol in an ethanol dependent patient. Normal people don't have that desire. If you continue to drink a lot of alcohol, there will be cirrhosis of the liver. The organ is reduced, the liver vessels constrict and the pressure increases, blood stagnation occurs. This leads to the fact that the walls of the organ will break, hemorrhage will occur, which will lead to death.
Non-alcoholic people get drunk in rare cases, also rarely feel a hangover syndrome, because the liver works normally, neutralizes alcohol toxins well.
How are brain structures affected?
When a person gets drunk, the cortical layer is destroyed, numbness and death of individual segments of the brain. In an alcoholic, edema, scarred ulcers, and dilated vessels are seen in the brain tissue. Numerous ruptures also manifest, forming cysts in the necrotic segments.
Effects of ethanol on the central nervous system
If you drink a lot of alcohol, then the person behaves differently, he degrades mentally and morally. The patient perceives reality inadequately, his attention is poorly focused. In addition, the nervous tissues conduct less impulses, polyneuritis forms, movements are poorly coordinated, the patient does not sleep well, is irritable, aggressive, has a fever.
He is delirious, he is disturbed by hallucinatory states, the person does not feel temperature, pain, hyperhidrosis manifests. The pain usually comes on sharply, the person feels ants are crawling on their skin, and muscle spasms are also disturbed. The absence of treatment causes changes in encephalopathy, alcoholic delirium, mental retardation, Korsakov's psychosis and epileptic attacks.
heart and blood vessels
The systematic use of alcohol will cause hypertrophy of the heart, its work will be interrupted, the rhythm will fail, there will be ischemic processes, atherosclerosis, hypertension with myocardial infarction.
What will happen to the kidneys?
If you drink vodka every day, your kidneys will wear out more quickly and also quickly lose their ability to work. The metabolic processes are interrupted, the blood will not be eliminated from toxic compounds, which will lead to poisoning. There is a high probability of formation of pyelonephritic alterations, inflammatory processes of the urinary system. Then there will be kidney failure, stones and oncology will appear.
How is the gastrointestinal tract affected with the spleen?
Ethanol compounds are toxic to the digestive system. They will reach the esophageal walls, heartburn will occur, the urge to vomit will intensify, which will lead to the vessels in the esophagus beginning to thin and expand. This will break the venous walls and hemorrhage will appear.
The gastric membrane will also suffer, it will age faster, inflammatory, ulcerative and oncological processes will form. Dysfunction of the spleen, which uses up destroyed blood cells, will occur. The spleen will be large, there will be suppuration, necrosis.
Immune System Problems
Immunity will be depressed, which will weaken the body's defenses. The synthesis of the protein lysozyme contained in saliva and tears decreases, due to which pathogenic microorganisms are neutralized. A person becomes susceptible to many infectious pathologies and his condition worsens.
What will happen to muscles and joints?
If you drink alcohol systematically, calcium will leach out, bone tissue will become fragile, 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 muscles. Muscle growth slows or stops, muscle tissue is destroyed. Sagging, atrophy will appear in them, but there will be more fat.
Fluid will be removed from the body slowly, edematous changes will occur. Uric acid builds up in the form of hydrochloric acid and starts to build up in the joints. This will lead to inflammation, gout will appear. The more the patient drinks, the more painful sensations are manifested. Excess fluid that enters the joint sac puts pressure on the cavity walls and the nerve tissue becomes irritated. After a period of time, 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. In addition, the ovaries will be sore and 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 noticeable.
How are the respiratory organs affected?
About 2% of the alcohol released as vapor passes through the lung tissue. This causes damage to the respiratory mucosa, 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 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 from overworked eye muscles will occur and visual function will deteriorate. There is a gradual atrophy of the eye muscles, the optic nerve is malfunctioning, the patient may be completely blind.
about appearance
Alcoholism harms a person's appearance:
- There is swelling under the eyeballs.
- The hair is disheveled.
- The nose has a bluish tint.
- 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. Disruption of small capillaries. Red spots 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 he drank water, it accumulates.
This is how the body reacts to possible dehydration. As a result, there is swelling in the facial region, in the limbs.
Lifetime 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 expectancy of these people is influenced by various circumstances, eg 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 their youth, that 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 due to serious pathologies.
Alcoholics usually die:
- of oncology, perforated gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer;
- hepatitis, cirrhosis, fibrotic changes in the liver caused by alcohol;
- bowel obstruction;
- acute disturbance of cerebral circulation caused by ischemia or hemorrhage;
- myocardial changes, myocardial infarction, sudden coronary death;
- acute or chronic inflammation of the pancreas;
- sudden death during sleep;
- intoxicated suicide.
Intoxication with ethanol compounds can lead to death in people between 35 and 45 years old. All internal organs and systems will fail and a person's life will be quickly shortened. In order not to suffer from such a severe addiction, it is better to completely abandon alcoholic beverages, as this way the person will avoid many problems and preserve their health.