Symptoms of drinking fake alcohol

In order to maximize profits, some unscrupulous small workshops produce fake liquor. This kind of fake liquor is mainly a blended product, which is quite harmful to human health. Some people even use industrial alcohol to blend it, which is even more harmful. For drinkers, it even causes great harm to their life safety. It often causes some symptoms of the digestive system, causing coma, blindness and many other symptoms.

Symptoms of drinking fake alcohol

1. Digestive system symptoms

After drinking fake liquor, fusel alcohol will irritate the stomach and intestines, which may cause digestive system discomfort symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, upper abdominal pain, etc. It may also cause liver damage and may be complicated by acute pancreatitis.

2. Central nervous system symptoms

When drinking fake alcohol, fusel alcohol enters the blood, often accompanied by symptoms such as dizziness, headache, vertigo, fatigue, unsteady gait, insomnia, apathetic expression, and cloudy consciousness. In severe cases, there may also be confusion, coma, and epileptic convulsions.

3. Eye symptoms

Fake liquor is usually made of industrial alcohol, which contains a lot of methanol. Methanol is very irritating to the eyes. After drinking fake liquor, you may initially experience black shadows in front of your eyes, flashing lights, blurred vision, eye pain, photophobia, double vision, etc. In severe cases, vision deteriorates sharply, which may cause permanent blindness of both eyes.

4. Acidosis

After the formaldehyde in fake wine enters the body, it will be quickly metabolized into formic acid. If the intake is large, methanol will inhibit certain oxidase systems in the body, causing accumulation of lactic acid and other organic acids and formic acid, causing acidosis, and reduced carbon dioxide binding capacity. In severe cases, cyanosis will occur, and the patient will breathe deeply and rapidly like Kussmaul respiration.

Patients who drink too much fake alcohol and suffer from severe acute methanol poisoning will experience severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, a sharp decrease in vision, or even blindness, confusion, convulsions, and coma, and may eventually die of respiratory failure.

What to do if you drink fake wine

Take first aid measures based on how much alcohol you have consumed.

If people experience mild dizziness, nausea and other symptoms of drunkenness after drinking a very small amount of fake liquor, they should eat more hangover foods after drinking to speed up the metabolism of alcohol and fusel alcohols.

If you drink a large amount of fake alcohol, you should induce vomiting in time and go to the hospital for treatment. Drinking too much fake alcohol may cause methanol poisoning. Acute methanol poisoning has an incubation period of 8-36 hours, and the early stage of acute methanol poisoning is a state of drunkenness, so it is usually difficult to detect after poisoning, so you must pay special attention.