What are the symptoms of alcohol poisoning?

Wine culture has a relatively long history in China. Moderate drinking at ordinary times can help to cultivate one's mood and promote harmonious relationships with relatives and friends. However, excessive drinking can cause great harm to the body. Long-term excessive drinking can easily lead to alcohol poisoning. This chronic alcohol poisoning has a lasting harm to the body and can easily lead to memory loss. It is also quite harmful to the liver.

What are the symptoms of alcohol poisoning?

1. Temporary black vision or memory loss.

2. Chronic alcohol poisoning will affect a person's temperament. According to research and investigation, if a person drinks alcohol for a long time, he or she will easily have disputes or fights with family members or friends after chronic alcohol poisoning.

3. If you drink excessively for a long time, it will affect your life. Many people continue to drink in order to relax, get excited, fall asleep, deal with problems, or feel "normal".

4. Chronic alcohol poisoning is also very harmful to the human body. When you stop drinking, you will experience headaches, anxiety, insomnia, nausea or other unpleasant symptoms.

5. Flushing of the skin, broken capillaries on the face, hoarseness, trembling hands, chronic diarrhea, and drinking alone in the morning or in secret. These symptoms are particularly associated with chronic alcoholism.

Severe symptoms of chronic alcoholic encephalopathy

(1) Wernicke encephalopathy

On the basis of long-term drinking, a sudden onset of delirium, drowsiness, muscle twitching or eye paralysis, decerebrate rigidity or coma may occur after a single excessive drinking, and after waking up, the following two syndromes may occur.

(2) Korsakov Psychosis

The disease has a slow onset, with memory impairment as the main symptom, accompanied by confabulation or misconception, disorientation, and possible emotional and motor slowness. Polyneuritis of varying degrees may occur, and examination may reveal limb sensory impairment, muscle atrophy, weakened or absent tendon reflexes, and paralysis in severe cases.

(3) Chronic alcoholic dementia

The disease onset is slow, with severe personality changes, memory loss and intellectual disability; social function and ability to take care of oneself decrease or disappear. The electroencephalogram may show low-amplitude slow waves; brain CT shows enlarged ventricles and significant atrophy of the cerebral cortex, especially the temporal lobe.

Excitement

When the alcohol content in the body reaches 20 to 40 ml after drinking, the eyes will be congested, the face will be flushed or pale, dizziness, euphoria, and increased speech will occur. Some people will behave rudely and emotionally, hitting people and destroying things, being happy and angry at times, talking incessantly, and sometimes falling asleep peacefully. During this period, drivers often drive on the road to show off their prowess, and then enter the last two periods, when traffic accidents are common.