I drank last night and got cut off from 'Film'?Himchan Hospital "Alcoholic Dementia Precursor"
Dec 12, 2024
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According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recent National Health and Nutrition Survey', the average amount of alcohol consumed per time was 7 for men and 5 for women based on soju, and the proportion of high-risk alcohol consumed more than twice a week was 13.8%. The monthly binge drinking rate reached 37.2 percent, with seven men (or five cans of beer) and five women (or three cans of beer) binge drinking at least once a month.
Son Hyo-moon, vice president of the Department of Gastroenterology at Himchan General Hospital in Incheon, said, `Drinking causes various digestive diseases such as abnormal gastrointestinal movements and increased gastric acid secretion.'"In particular, excessive drinking can cause abnormalities in the body's metabolism and cause diseases, so be careful." he warned.
Excessive alcohol consumption causes various digestive disorders and harms liver health. Alcohol is mainly consumed with greasy and irritating snacks, which increases gastric acid secretion. Alcohol stretches the body's muscles, relaxes the esophageal tightening muscles, and toxins produced during the fermentation of alcohol damage the intestinal membrane, causing inflammation of the esophagus, stomach, duodenum, and pancreas to cause reflux disease.
Also, alcohol causes various liver diseases such as fatty liver and hepatitis.
Alcoholic fatty liver has a lot of triglycerides accumulated in liver cells due to alcohol, and if drinking continues in this state, it can be transferred to alcoholic hepatitis, and if it goes further from here, it can be transferred to cirrhosis. Alcoholic fatty liver complains of discomfort in the right upper abdomen, dull pain, fatigue, drowsyness, and loss of appetite when the disease progresses. Alcoholic hepatitis causes helplessness, fatigue, fever, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and jaundice.
Alcoholic dementia is also indispensable, which occurs when the brain is repeatedly damaged by excessive alcohol consumption. Alcohol interferes with neurotransmitters that mediate thinking processes, including memory and judgment, and when symptoms worsen, nerve cells die and brain atrophy are caused.
The blackout phenomenon, which is often expressed as 'film breaks', can be seen as a precursor to alcoholic dementia. Alcoholic dementia also causes other symptoms such as tremors and stumbling while walking due to brain damage.
In addition, drinking expands blood vessels, increases heart rate, and increases blood pressure. This puts a burden on the heart and causes heart diseases such as alcoholic cardiomyopathy and arrhythmia. Chronic drinking causes myocardial infarction and can cause heart attacks as the function of the heart muscle decreases due to alcohol.
To prevent various diseases, abstaining from drinking is the most effective way. However, if you are forced to drink due to social life, you should control the amount of alcohol as much as possible.
The appropriate amount of alcohol proposed by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to drink less than four drinks a day and less than two times a week, half a bottle of soju for men under 65 and less than two cups of soju for all women and men over 65 years of age. When drinking alcohol, it is recommended to drink a lot of water to replenish moisture and delay absorption in the alcohol body.
It is also important to relieve the burden of eating a nutritious and balanced diet before drinking alcohol. Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables rich in vitamins and minerals that help break down alcohol, and it is better to eat fish and seafood rather than oily and stimulating food for snacks. It is also important to smooth metabolic functions with regular exercise. However, exercise is not helpful the day after drinking too much, and if you need to exercise, light aerobic exercise is less burdensome than muscle exercise.
Son Hyo-moon, vice president of the Department of Gastroenterology at Incheon Himchan General Hospital, said "As it is known that it takes quite a while for alcohol to be completely decomposed in the body after drinking alcohol, you should abstain from drinking for two to three days after drinking once."In the case of liver disease, when symptoms appear because there are no symptoms in the early stages, the disease often progresses considerably.
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