Remind those who love to drink: keep in mind these 4 signs of sudden death after drinking, and seek medical treatment in time

Some time ago, Xiao Li drank with a few colleagues, and after drinking, his colleagues sent him to a foot massage shop for a massage.

At that time, Liao, an employee in charge of the Muzu store, entered the room and smelled alcohol on Xiao Li's body. After cleaning Xiao Li's ears, he massaged Xiao Li's right hand, but it didn't take long to find that Xiao Li's eyes were wide open and his body was twitching. ,Difficulty breathing.

So the staff immediately called the emergency number. After the ambulance arrived, Xiao Li was rescued, but in the end the rescue was invalid and he died.

After examination, it was found that Xiao Li 's death was caused by an acute attack of coronary atherosclerotic heart disease , and ethanol was detected in the body, and the content reached 34.3mg/100mL.

Drinking alcohol will endanger your health, especially if you drink a lot of alcohol, it may even be life-threatening. People who like to drink should pay attention to it. If there is any abnormality in the body after drinking, be alert to sudden death after drinking.

1. Do people who drink alcohol drink a lot? not so simple

At the wine table, we can often see some people drinking until their blush and neck thicken. In the eyes of some people, this may be a sign of "being able to drink", but in fact it is not that simple.

The reason why the face turns red after drinking is because the body decomposes alcohol too fast, and the acetaldehyde decomposition speed cannot keep up, which will lead to the accumulation of acetaldehyde produced during the alcohol decomposition process in the body.

The reason alcohol breaks down faster than acetaldehyde may be because the enzyme that breaks down ethanol is too strong or the enzyme that breaks down acetaldehyde is too weak.

And acetaldehyde is a toxic carcinogen, which can stimulate the circulatory system and cause blood vessels to dilate, so the face will turn red after drinking. In fact, this is a manifestation of acetaldehyde poisoning .

Asians are more likely to blush when they drink alcohol than other groups of people. Because most Asians lack acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in their bodies , they cannot degrade acetaldehyde at a normal speed.

In addition, studies have also found that people with ALDH2 gene mutations are likely to cause a large amount of acetaldehyde to accumulate in the body and cause skin flushing, and 35% to 45% of Asians have this gene mutation .

What does it mean when there is a situation of "drinking on the face"?

One is that there may be a higher risk of fracture , because the accumulation of acetaldehyde will generate active oxygen. If the pressure of active oxygen is too high, it will affect the metabolism of bones, resulting in a decrease in bone density and osteoporosis;

The second is to increase the risk of Alzheimer's . Researchers at Stanford University found that alcohol can damage cells protected by ALDH2, increase free radicals in neurons and the level of cell death proteins, thereby increasing the risk of Alzheimer's;

The third is to increase the risk of high blood pressure. Studies in South Korea have found that people who drink alcohol easily will increase the risk of high blood pressure even if they drink a small amount of alcohol;

The fourth is to increase the risk of cancer . On the one hand, ethanol in alcohol and the alcohol metabolite acetaldehyde can damage DNA, resulting in repeated DNA damage and increased cancer risk.

2. People who love to drink pay attention to 4 abnormalities, or the precursor of sudden death

People who love to drink should pay more attention to abnormal changes in their bodies, because drinking may lead to sudden death. There are many reasons for sudden death after drinking, such as aspiration, cardiac emergency, acute pancreatitis, cerebral hemorrhage, hypothermia, disulfiram-like reaction, Hypotonicity, rhabdomyolysis , etc. after gastric lavage.

If you experience the following abnormalities in your body after drinking too much, you should be vigilant:

1. Suffocation

After being drunk, the instinctive protective effect of the airway weakens or even disappears. At this time, vomiting can easily cause vomit to enter the trachea and cause the trachea, which is easy to endanger life due to suffocation.

2. Disulfiram-like reaction

If you take drugs that cause disulfiram-like reactions while drinking, you may experience symptoms such as headache, shortness of breath, chest tightness, weakness of limbs, excessive sweating, flushing of the face, nausea, rapid heart rate, blurred vision, and vomiting.

Severe cases can even lead to lower blood pressure, dyspnea, loss of consciousness, and very few can lead to death.

3. Hypoglycemia

Alcohol in the process of metabolism in the body can easily induce hypoglycemia. In the early stage, hypoglycemia manifests as sweating, palpitations, irritability and other symptoms. When it is severe, it will cause confusion, drowsiness and even coma.

When hypoglycemia persists for more than 6 hours, neurological impairment may occur, and even death may occur.

4. Palpitation and chest tightness

Drinking a lot of alcohol can easily cause myocardial damage, which is manifested as palpitation, chest tightness and other symptoms, but drunk people may not feel it, and it is easy to induce various cardiovascular accidents, such as cerebral hemorrhage, stroke, myocardial infarction, etc.

3. Do 3 things well after drinking to effectively reduce alcohol damage

Excessive drinking not only easily leads to sudden death, but also brings many risks, such as the induction of alcoholic liver, cardiovascular damage, increased risk of various cancers, obesity, etc.

Although many people know that drinking is harmful to the body, sometimes they have to face the need to drink. After drinking, you might as well do these things to help reduce the harm of alcohol.

• Do not drink strong tea and coffee right away

Strong tea contains a large amount of theophylline, which will exert a diuretic effect and cause dehydration in the body. It will also promote undecomposed acetaldehyde to enter the kidneys in advance, affecting kidney health.

The caffeine in coffee can excite the nervous central system, causing symptoms such as headache and dizziness, and it can also aggravate the symptoms of dehydration due to the diuretic effect.

• don't take a shower right away

Drinking alcohol will consume a lot of blood sugar. When taking a bath, you will experience heart palpitations, dizziness, fatigue and other symptoms because the blood sugar is not replenished in time, and it may even cause hypoglycemia coma. In addition, bathing in hot water will also dilate blood vessels, which can easily lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain and increase the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

• don't induce vomiting

Inducing vomiting may make the symptoms of nausea and vomiting worse, and severe vomiting may lead to acute pancreatitis, and may also tear the cardia mucosa connecting the esophagus and stomach, and even cause massive bleeding.

In addition, stomach acid and alcohol can re-injure the esophagus during vomiting, causing reflux esophagitis.

In short, drinking is harmful to health, and the safest amount of drinking is "0". I hope everyone can try not to drink or drink less.

References:

[1] "The risk of high blood pressure "soars" five times for people who turn red when they drink alcohol." Life Times. 2022-05-11

[2] "People who drink and blush drink a lot? Such people are more prone to fractures, dementia, and cancer, and many people don't know it... ". Popular Science China. 2021-06-16

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