Negative Effects of Alcohol on Vital Otgans
Overview
People drink to socialize, celebrate, and relax. Alcohol often has a strong effect on people and throughout history, we’ve struggle to go by understand and manage alcohol’s power.
Why does alcohol cause to act and feel differently?
How much is too much?
Why do some people become addicted while others do not
Interestingly, alcohol effect vary from person to person depending on a variety of factors including;
How much you drink
How often you drink
Your age
Your health status
Your family history
While drinking is in itself not necessarily a problem, drinking too much can cause a range of consequences, and increase your risk for a variety of problems.
Consequences of Drinking Alcohol Too much
Alcohol enters your blood stream as soon you take the first sip, alcohol immediate effect can appear within 10minutes. As you drink, you increase your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level. This is the amount of alcohol present in your blood stream. the higher your BAC the more impaired you become by alcohol effect. Immediate effects can appear within 10 minutes, these effects includes;
- Reuced inhibitions
- Slurred speech
- Motor impairment
- Confusion
- Memory problems
- Coma
Other risk of drinking can include car crashes and other accidents are;
1. Risky behaviors
2. Violent behaviors
3. Suicide and homicide
Although, people who drink too much over a long period of time may experience alcohol’s dependence and increased risk for cancer.
Effects of Alcohol on the Body
Brain
Alcohol interferes with the brains communication pathway and can affect the way the brain looks and works. These disruptions can change mood and behavior and make it harder to think clearly and move with coordination.
Heart
- Drinking a lot over a long period of time is safer than taking too much on a single occasion. However, both can damage the heat causing problems including;
- cardiomyopathy – Stretching and drooping of the heart muscles.
- Arrhymias – Irregular heartbeat
- Stroke
- High blood pressure
Liver
Heavy drinking takes it’s toll on the liver too and can lead to variety of problems and liver inflammation which includes; Stenosis or fatty liver, alcohol hepatitis, fibrosis and cirrhosis.
Pancreas
Alcohol causes the pancreas to produce toxic substance that can eventually lead to pancreatitis, a dangerous inflamattion and swelling of the blood vessels in the pancreas that prevent proper digestion.
Immune System
Drinking too much can weaken your immune system making your body a much easier target for disease. Chronic drinkers are more liable to contact diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis when people who do not drink too much. Drinking a lot on a single occasion slows your body’s ability to ward off infections and even up to 24hrs after getting drunk.
