In the last 3 months, Soc Son General Hospital has received 46 patients with alcohol poisoning, 70 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, and many other patients with alcohol-related diseases. Especially in a serious emergency, where the patient was stabbed by a group of friends due to excessive alcohol use. It can be seen that alcohol is a quite popular drink group in friends or customers, but the harmful effects of alcohol abuse are not known by many people. So we will provide some information about the harmful effects of alcohol:
1. Toxic to the liver
The liver is a very important internal organ of the human body. Just like the heart and kidneys, we can lack spleen, lack of stomach, but we cannot lack liver or heart, kidneys.
First of all, drinking a lot of alcohol can cause fatty liver. People who drink alcohol regularly often have fatty liver, which affects liver function.
There is a percentage of drinkers who develop fibrous scars in the liver, which then lead to cirrhosis, a type of progressive, irreversible liver damage that eventually leads to a complete loss of liver function. Cirrhotic patients also have other life-threatening complications such as vomiting blood, infection with ascites.
One-third of the population has a genetic susceptibility to cirrhosis. The exact mechanism of this disease is still poorly understood.
2. Effects on the brain and nerves
When bored, many people often turn to alcohol for relief. Perhaps temporarily alcohol can help ease your sadness, but in the end it makes you more depressed. People drink because they are sad, but the more they drink, the sadder they get. Many people can’t get out of this spiral and are deep in alcohol but can’t get out.
Regular drinking is associated with depression, anxiety and many other mental problems. Nearly one-third of suicides are alcohol-related.
Alcohol affects every organ in the body, and of course it changes the brain, and this change is not like getting back to normal when you are drunk, it is irreversible.
Alcohol affects neurotransmitters and to some extent can make people become increasingly anxious, depressed, nervous and especially bad personality.
3. Alcohol, infertility and miscarriage
Alcohol can adversely affect male reproductive function, causing temporary erectile dysfunction.
In the long term, alcohol lowers testosterone levels, leading to impaired libido and toxicity to the testes, which can damage sperm or prevent them from “running” to the egg, affecting their ability to reach the egg. Fertility.
Drinking alcohol can also reduce a woman’s fertility, even in small amounts, although scientists are not sure why.
Chronic heavy alcohol consumption can also affect menstruation or stop ovulation. Women who drink heavily during pregnancy are also more likely to miscarry.
4. Increased risk of cancer
According to Professor Linda Bauld of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Research, there is good evidence that alcohol increases the risk of certain types of cancer, such as nasopharyngeal, esophageal, liver, bowel and breast cancer…
Perhaps many people are surprised by the link between alcohol and breast cancer. However, there is very strong evidence to support this link. Drinking just one bottle of alcohol per week increases the risk of breast cancer by 10%.
When alcoholic beverages, such as wine and beer, enter the body, they break down in the liver to form a toxic substance called acetaldehyde, which damages cellular DNA, thereby increasing the risk of cancer.
Alcohol has also been linked to other carcinogens, such as those found in tobacco, which can increase the risk of cancer many times over.
5. Promotes skin aging
Alcoholic beverages can also affect your appearance. When you stop drinking, you will definitely look younger and better.
Alcohol is a diuretic, which in turn dehydrates the body and also the skin. This has an immediate and lasting effect on the skin and hair.
Dehydration causes dry skin and brittle hair, while drinking too much alcohol depletes your body of iron, leaving you with pale, lifeless skin and hair that is more prone to breakage.
Because alcohol depletes the body of vitamin C and vitamin A, the skin’s resistance to environmental aging factors such as sunlight and pollutants is also reduced.
Drinking large amounts of alcoholic beverages also thins the skin so that when looked at closely, it is easy to see the blood vessels under the skin.
6. Heart problems
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death today.
Alcohol is toxic and has a direct effect on the heart muscle. Therefore, when a person drinks alcohol, the heart muscle cells die and, conversely, the fibrous tissue is unable to contract. Gradually, the heart muscle cells are replaced by fibrous tissue that cannot contract, leaving the heart weakened and unable to pump blood to the body.
Worse, you develop heart failure, which manifests as shortness of breath, fatigue, arrhythmias and swollen legs.
Although your heart has a good ability to repair and compensate itself, if you drink alcohol regularly, you are destroying your heart.
It varies from person to person, but in general, drinking more than 1.2 liters of alcohol per week for women and 1.8 liters of alcohol per week for men can damage the heart muscle.
Binge drinking can also increase the likelihood of high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for strokes and heart attacks.
Alcohol consumption also interferes with sleep, which increases blood pressure. Heavy drinkers also often lead unhealthy lifestyles, so they are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease.
7. Increased risk of kidney disease
According to the British Kidney Foundation, regular heavy alcohol consumption doubles the risk of kidney disease.
The kidneys filter and remove toxins from the bloodstream, and alcohol impairs the kidneys’ ability to perform this function.
At the same time, heavy alcohol consumption raises blood pressure, a common cause of kidney disease.
Just one drink can lead to acute kidney failure, which is a sudden loss of kidney function caused by high blood alcohol levels. Kidney function can be restored, but the damage may be permanent.
In the last 3 months, Soc Son General Hospital has received 46 patients with alcohol poisoning, 70 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, and many other patients with alcohol-related diseases. Especially in a serious emergency, where the patient was stabbed by a group of friends due to excessive alcohol use. It can be seen that alcohol is a quite popular drink group in friends or customers, but the harmful effects of alcohol abuse are not known by many people. So we will provide some information about the harmful effects of alcohol:
1. Toxic to the liver
The liver is a very important internal organ of the human body. Just like the heart and kidneys, we can lack spleen, lack of stomach, but we cannot lack liver or heart, kidneys.
First of all, drinking a lot of alcohol can cause fatty liver. People who drink alcohol regularly often have fatty liver, which affects liver function.
There is a percentage of drinkers who develop fibrous scars in the liver, which then lead to cirrhosis, a type of progressive, irreversible liver damage that eventually leads to a complete loss of liver function. Cirrhotic patients also have other life-threatening complications such as vomiting blood, infection with ascites.
One-third of the population has a genetic susceptibility to cirrhosis. The exact mechanism of this disease is still poorly understood.
2. Effects on the brain and nerves
When bored, many people often turn to alcohol for relief. Perhaps temporarily alcohol can help ease your sadness, but in the end it makes you more depressed. People drink because they are sad, but the more they drink, the sadder they get. Many people can’t get out of this spiral and are deep in alcohol but can’t get out.
Regular drinking is associated with depression, anxiety and many other mental problems. Nearly one-third of suicides are alcohol-related.
Alcohol affects every organ in the body, and of course it changes the brain, and this change is not like getting back to normal when you are drunk, it is irreversible.
Alcohol affects neurotransmitters and to some extent can make people become increasingly anxious, depressed, nervous and especially bad personality.
3. Alcohol, infertility and miscarriage
Alcohol can adversely affect male reproductive function, causing temporary erectile dysfunction.
In the long term, alcohol lowers testosterone levels, leading to impaired libido and toxicity to the testes, which can damage sperm or prevent them from “running” to the egg, affecting their ability to reach the egg. Fertility.
Drinking alcohol can also reduce a woman’s fertility, even in small amounts, although scientists are not sure why.
Chronic heavy alcohol consumption can also affect menstruation or stop ovulation. Women who drink heavily during pregnancy are also more likely to miscarry.
4. Increased risk of cancer
According to Professor Linda Bauld of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Research, there is good evidence that alcohol increases the risk of certain types of cancer, such as nasopharyngeal, esophageal, liver, bowel and breast cancer…
Perhaps many people are surprised by the link between alcohol and breast cancer. However, there is very strong evidence to support this link. Drinking just one bottle of alcohol per week increases the risk of breast cancer by 10%.
When alcoholic beverages, such as wine and beer, enter the body, they break down in the liver to form a toxic substance called acetaldehyde, which damages cellular DNA, thereby increasing the risk of cancer.
Alcohol has also been linked to other carcinogens, such as those found in tobacco, which can increase the risk of cancer many times over.
5. Promotes skin aging
Alcoholic beverages can also affect your appearance. When you stop drinking, you will definitely look younger and better.
Alcohol is a diuretic, which in turn dehydrates the body and also the skin. This has an immediate and lasting effect on the skin and hair.
Dehydration causes dry skin and brittle hair, while drinking too much alcohol depletes your body of iron, leaving you with pale, lifeless skin and hair that is more prone to breakage.
Because alcohol depletes the body of vitamin C and vitamin A, the skin’s resistance to environmental aging factors such as sunlight and pollutants is also reduced.
Drinking large amounts of alcoholic beverages also thins the skin so that when looked at closely, it is easy to see the blood vessels under the skin.
6. Heart problems
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death today.
Alcohol is toxic and has a direct effect on the heart muscle. Therefore, when a person drinks alcohol, the heart muscle cells die and, conversely, the fibrous tissue is unable to contract. Gradually, the heart muscle cells are replaced by fibrous tissue that cannot contract, leaving the heart weakened and unable to pump blood to the body.
Worse, you develop heart failure, which manifests as shortness of breath, fatigue, arrhythmias and swollen legs.
Although your heart has a good ability to repair and compensate itself, if you drink alcohol regularly, you are destroying your heart.
It varies from person to person, but in general, drinking more than 1.2 liters of alcohol per week for women and 1.8 liters of alcohol per week for men can damage the heart muscle.
Binge drinking can also increase the likelihood of high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for strokes and heart attacks.
Alcohol consumption also interferes with sleep, which increases blood pressure. Heavy drinkers also often lead unhealthy lifestyles, so they are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease.
7. Increased risk of kidney disease
According to the British Kidney Foundation, regular heavy alcohol consumption doubles the risk of kidney disease.
The kidneys filter and remove toxins from the bloodstream, and alcohol impairs the kidneys’ ability to perform this function.
At the same time, heavy alcohol consumption raises blood pressure, a common cause of kidney disease.
Just one drink can lead to acute kidney failure, which is a sudden loss of kidney function caused by high blood alcohol levels. Kidney function can be restored, but the damage may be permanent.
In the last 3 months, Soc Son General Hospital has received 46 patients with alcohol poisoning, 70 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, and many other patients with alcohol-related diseases. Especially in a serious emergency, where the patient was stabbed by a group of friends due to excessive alcohol use. It can be seen that alcohol is a quite popular drink group in friends or customers, but the harmful effects of alcohol abuse are not known by many people. So we will provide some information about the harmful effects of alcohol:
1. Toxic to the liver
The liver is a very important internal organ of the human body. Just like the heart and kidneys, we can lack spleen, lack of stomach, but we cannot lack liver or heart, kidneys.
First of all, drinking a lot of alcohol can cause fatty liver. People who drink alcohol regularly often have fatty liver, which affects liver function.
There is a percentage of drinkers who develop fibrous scars in the liver, which then lead to cirrhosis, a type of progressive, irreversible liver damage that eventually leads to a complete loss of liver function. Cirrhotic patients also have other life-threatening complications such as vomiting blood, infection with ascites.
One-third of the population has a genetic susceptibility to cirrhosis. The exact mechanism of this disease is still poorly understood.
2. Effects on the brain and nerves
When bored, many people often turn to alcohol for relief. Perhaps temporarily alcohol can help ease your sadness, but in the end it makes you more depressed. People drink because they are sad, but the more they drink, the sadder they get. Many people can’t get out of this spiral and are deep in alcohol but can’t get out.
Regular drinking is associated with depression, anxiety and many other mental problems. Nearly one-third of suicides are alcohol-related.
Alcohol affects every organ in the body, and of course it changes the brain, and this change is not like getting back to normal when you are drunk, it is irreversible.
Alcohol affects neurotransmitters and to some extent can make people become increasingly anxious, depressed, nervous and especially bad personality.
3. Alcohol, infertility and miscarriage
Alcohol can adversely affect male reproductive function, causing temporary erectile dysfunction.
In the long term, alcohol lowers testosterone levels, leading to impaired libido and toxicity to the testes, which can damage sperm or prevent them from “running” to the egg, affecting their ability to reach the egg. Fertility.
Drinking alcohol can also reduce a woman’s fertility, even in small amounts, although scientists are not sure why.
Chronic heavy alcohol consumption can also affect menstruation or stop ovulation. Women who drink heavily during pregnancy are also more likely to miscarry.
4. Increased risk of cancer
According to Professor Linda Bauld of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Research, there is good evidence that alcohol increases the risk of certain types of cancer, such as nasopharyngeal, esophageal, liver, bowel and breast cancer…
Perhaps many people are surprised by the link between alcohol and breast cancer. However, there is very strong evidence to support this link. Drinking just one bottle of alcohol per week increases the risk of breast cancer by 10%.
When alcoholic beverages, such as wine and beer, enter the body, they break down in the liver to form a toxic substance called acetaldehyde, which damages cellular DNA, thereby increasing the risk of cancer.
Alcohol has also been linked to other carcinogens, such as those found in tobacco, which can increase the risk of cancer many times over.
5. Promotes skin aging
Alcoholic beverages can also affect your appearance. When you stop drinking, you will definitely look younger and better.
Alcohol is a diuretic, which in turn dehydrates the body and also the skin. This has an immediate and lasting effect on the skin and hair.
Dehydration causes dry skin and brittle hair, while drinking too much alcohol depletes your body of iron, leaving you with pale, lifeless skin and hair that is more prone to breakage.
Because alcohol depletes the body of vitamin C and vitamin A, the skin’s resistance to environmental aging factors such as sunlight and pollutants is also reduced.
Drinking large amounts of alcoholic beverages also thins the skin so that when looked at closely, it is easy to see the blood vessels under the skin.
6. Heart problems
Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death today.
Alcohol is toxic and has a direct effect on the heart muscle. Therefore, when a person drinks alcohol, the heart muscle cells die and, conversely, the fibrous tissue is unable to contract. Gradually, the heart muscle cells are replaced by fibrous tissue that cannot contract, leaving the heart weakened and unable to pump blood to the body.
Worse, you develop heart failure, which manifests as shortness of breath, fatigue, arrhythmias and swollen legs.
Although your heart has a good ability to repair and compensate itself, if you drink alcohol regularly, you are destroying your heart.
It varies from person to person, but in general, drinking more than 1.2 liters of alcohol per week for women and 1.8 liters of alcohol per week for men can damage the heart muscle.
Binge drinking can also increase the likelihood of high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a major risk factor for strokes and heart attacks.
Alcohol consumption also interferes with sleep, which increases blood pressure. Heavy drinkers also often lead unhealthy lifestyles, so they are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease.
7. Increased risk of kidney disease
According to the British Kidney Foundation, regular heavy alcohol consumption doubles the risk of kidney disease.
The kidneys filter and remove toxins from the bloodstream, and alcohol impairs the kidneys’ ability to perform this function.
At the same time, heavy alcohol consumption raises blood pressure, a common cause of kidney disease.
Just one drink can lead to acute kidney failure, which is a sudden loss of kidney function caused by high blood alcohol levels. Kidney function can be restored, but the damage may be permanent.
