Diseases that provoke alcohol
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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It's no secret that excessive craving for alcoholic drinks is fraught with health problems. However, on the liver and road accident caused by drunk drivers, the whole list of diseases that alcohol can provoke does not end, but only begins.
Ilive represents the main and most common diseases that can cause alcohol.
Anemia
Regular excessive libations can cause a very low number of red blood cells that transport oxygen - a disease called anemia. And his symptoms include dizziness, shortness of breath and constant fatigue.
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Cancer
Unrestrained drunkenness several times increases the risk of cancer. According to scientists, this is due to the fact that getting into the human body, alcohol is converted to acetaldehyde - a strong carcinogen. Those who drink a glass with a cigarette are doubly exposed to this risk.
Heart Disease
Alcohol addiction leads to the fact that the platelets stick together, forming blood clots - and this is the direct way to with a stroke or heart attack. Also, alcohol consumption is fraught with weakening of the heart muscle, which may even fail.
Dementia
Drinking speeds up the aging process of the brain, which under normal conditions occurs in humans at a rate of 1.9% over 10 years. This leads to a violation of cognitive functions.
Depression
Disputes on the topic that occurs earlier, depression or craving for alcohol for a long time did not stop, odako in 2010, a study of New Zealand scientists put an end to all disputes and showed that it is the use of alcohol that leads a person into a depressed state.
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Epileptic seizures
Even those people who do not suffer from epilepsy, but drink well, can fall into an epileptic seizure. In addition, drunkenness can interfere with the normal treatment of epilepsy.
Gout
Gout arises from the formation of crystals of uric acid in the joints, which leads to severe pain. The emergence of this disease lead to nutrition, heredity, as well as alcohol. In addition, the latter aggravates the course of the disease.
Arterial pressure
Alcohol can cause disturbances in the work of the sympathetic nervous system, which regulates the expansion and contraction of blood vessels. If you add more and constant overeating, the risk increases.
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Nervous system
Neuropathy is a disease caused by alcohol. It is characterized by tingling in the limbs, urinary incontinence, muscle weakness, sexual impotence and other diseases.
Pancreatitis
Excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages can lead not only to gastritis, but also to pancreatitis - inflammation of the pancreas. Due to chronic pancreatitis, the digestive process is disrupted.