The prevention of alcohol consumption requires special attention because it is a problem with different levels of risks: excessive drinking can lead to an alcoholic coma, but still lower consumption can bring labor issues, health and social services. Therefore, as a first step, it is important to the functioning of the body to the substance and find out what the proper limits.
When a person drinks alcohol, he feels the effects generated by the action of alcohol on the central nervous system (CNS), ie the brain, affecting its normal functioning. As a key concept we know that alcohol in itself is a depressant drug central nervous system functioning. That is, not a stimulant. And so we must remarking the reason initially to take a little alcohol we feel that we are “happy” and uninhibited is simply because it blocks the functioning of our own barriers, what drives that we encourage, for example to perform actions without taking, never would. And so he lost the trial.
The effects of alcohol will vary depending on the dose consumed. As the blood alcohol concentration increases, it blocks over the CNS and the effects can be various: from experience joy and be uninhibited, reflexes or lose balance, to fall into an alcoholic coma in extreme cases. The thing to remember is that the dose of alcohol necessary to generate an alcoholic coma, is not as high as most people assume.
How does the alcohol in the body?
The reason why a person enters a state of “drunkenness” is simply because they consume more alcohol than the liver can process or metabolize. 80% of alcohol that we take is absorbed and enters the body through the small intestine, only 20% is absorbed in the stomach. The 90% is metabolized by the liver and the remaining 10% is eliminated from the body primarily by the breath, and very little urine or perspiration. The alcohol tests, for example, measures alcohol in expired air, which determines an equivalence with the amount of alcohol in the blood.
The limiting point of our “stamina” with alcohol what determines our liver. The body metabolizes alcohol and transforms it into acetaldehyde and water. This process has a rate determined by genetics, but that is not very different between people and around 10 grams of pure alcohol per hour. That is, if we consume more than 10 grams of alcohol in an hour is going to “overrun” alcohol will circulate in the blood reach the brain and remains in the body until the liver can metabolize it to its speed.
The key question is how much is 10 gr. pure alcohol? The amount of pure alcohol is in a can of beer (5% of pure alcohol), a glass of wine (15% pure alcohol) or a shot of any drink distilled (45% d pure alcohol). We call that a “drink drive”. For example, if consumed five cans of beer in an hour, alcohol will take five hours to disappear from the body. Five cans of beer in 354 ml equivalent to 1770 ml of this drink, which in pure alcohol equivalent to five shots of vodka, ie drinking five units. A long drink can have 3 units of spirits (eg vodka or tequila shots) Our agency does not discriminate where it came from alcohol. In the control of alcohol, drinking two units, positive result.
However, for “drunk” it takes several factors: the first is the amount, ie, taking more than what our liver can process, the second is speed. We can discriminate 3 speeds: One is the frequency of taking the glass to his mouth, another is the rate of alcohol absorption from the intestine (when the stomach is empty intestine absorbs alcohol faster) and the third and least modifiable are the rate of metabolism in the liver, which we mentioned and can be increased slightly and with a limit. It is what we call “alcohol culture” as the third factor is the alcohol content of drinks, hard liquor or distilled, for example, increase the likelihood of drinking.
These are the three variables that must be taken into account when linked with alcohol. It should be emphasized that whenever a person takes alcohol increases your risk. In the initial period, when a person takes “some” alcohol, this is between 2 and 4 units of drink their risks are associated with their behavior: car accidents, fights, unprotected sex, burns, etc.. Then when ingesting more alcohol, the toxic effect of alcohol, creates a greater risk associated with the direct effect of alcohol on the brain. There comes a time when the amount of alcohol in the blood is very high, toxic effects on the CNS are the first to lose consciousness (sleep and coma) and then respiratory arrest. The latter situation occurs when neurons generated automatically we breathe also blocked and stop working, causing the person to stop breathing and therefore death.
The lethal dose of alcohol depends on the weight of each person. In a child is 3 grams per kilo and adults, between 5 and 8 grams. For example, a liter of wine is 15% alcohol, with 150 grams of pure alcohol. So if we make the account, a lethal dose for an adolescent weighing 60 kilos can be two liters of wine. Because if we divide the 300 grams of pure alcohol of wines by their weight, resulting in us 5 grams per kilo, a dose which can be fatal. However this can be false, as we have witnessed teen alcoholics eat 60 kg with half the dose, simply by consuming fast and not eating beforehand. Therefore a person alcoholize to the point that: loses consciousness, you should have because it can not move by their own means and the next day not remember much of what happened the night before, was about an alcoholic coma fatal.
Finally, alcoholism, disease caused by primarily psychological and biological addiction to alcohol, is often more likely when a person begins drinking at an early age. While the percentage of alcohol in those who consume alcohol is around 10 to 15%, is a debilitating disease and socially rejected. Currently there are treatments to help a person out of alcoholism. Obviously the first step is to stop using and belong to a SHG is very useful. There is also medication specifically used to prevent relapse and help in the attempt. This point is key to increasing the chances of successful treatment and not just hope that willpower is the only way.
In conclusion, we refer to consume alcohol whenever we are exposed to risks, so it is vitally important to learn how to properly bind with the drinking and respect the boundaries that leads the body.
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