Why does kidney hurt after drinking alcohol?

If you experience kidney pain after drinking, you should be alert. There are many reasons for this symptom, which may be related to the patient's decreased renal function. In addition, chronic nephritis and kidney stones may also induce this phenomenon. If it is serious, you should go to the hospital for examination in time. In addition, it may also be caused by muscle strain. The specific cause should be examined in detail in the hospital.

Things to know about drinking

1. Don’t drink alcohol and coffee together

Alcohol is harmful to the body, while caffeine has a stimulating, refreshing and stomachic effect. Excessive intake can also cause poisoning. If alcohol and coffee are consumed together, it is like adding fuel to the fire, aggravating damage to the brain, stimulating blood vessel dilation, accelerating blood circulation, and increasing the cardiovascular burden. The harm caused is many times greater than drinking alcohol alone, and is even more likely to be life-threatening.

2. Don’t drink alcohol after catching a cold

Drinking alcohol will make the cold worse. Because most cold patients, especially those with severe symptoms, have fever, they usually need to take antipyretics, usually paracetamol. Once you drink liquor or strong alcohol, the metabolites produced by them will cause serious damage to the liver until it is completely necrotic.

3. Patients with liver disease should abstain from alcohol

People with acute hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, and liver disease accompanied by diabetes should absolutely abstain from alcohol, including beer. In the recovery period of hepatitis and chronic persistent hepatitis, when liver function is basically normal, you can drink beer in moderation, because beer can promote the secretion of digestive juices and increase appetite. Beer also contains a variety of amino acids and B vitamins, but generally do not drink more than half a liter a day.

4. Don’t drink tea after drinking alcohol

Drinking tea after drinking alcohol is not a good habit. Because after people drink alcohol, 80% of the alcohol is gradually broken down by the liver into water and carbon dioxide and excreted from the body, thus playing a role in sobering up. This decomposition process usually takes 2-4 hours. If you drink tea immediately after drinking alcohol, the acetaldehyde in the alcohol will be quickly excreted from the body through the kidneys, causing damage to the kidneys and reducing kidney function. At the same time, drinking too much tea and drinking too much water will increase the burden on the heart and kidneys, which is more harmful for coronary heart patients with hypertension and angina pectoris. Therefore, it is best to eat some fruits such as pears and watermelons after drinking.

5. Do not take medicine after drinking

All alcoholic beverages contain varying degrees of alcohol, and there are hundreds of drugs that can increase toxic side effects when taken after drinking. If you take drugs such as Lorazepam and Eudragit after drinking, you will experience reactions such as arrhythmia and high blood pressure. If you take sedatives, hypnotics, anti-epileptics, anti-allergics, antihypertensives, etc. after drinking, on the one hand, they can increase the inhibitory effect on the brain, but on the other hand, they can increase the potency of the drugs sharply, exceeding the normal tolerance of the human body and causing danger. In particular, the elderly and weak or those suffering from heart, liver, or kidney diseases should avoid taking medicine after drinking.