Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol poisoning.

Alcohol intoxication is a serious and sometimes life-threatening condition - it results when a person consumes a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time.

Intoxication is manifested by acute symptoms, and in some clinical cases the process leads to coma, the patient dies.

Consider any sign of alcohol poisoning as an alarm signaled by the body and contact emergency services.

The following symptoms appear:

  • Confusion;
  • Vomiting;
  • Attack;
  • The patient's breathing is slowed down;
  • The skin takes blue, gray or pale color;
  • Low body temperature;
  • The patient has difficulty waking up, is not in a sane state of mind.

The risk of alcohol intoxication increases against the background of certain factors, namely:

  • Height and weight;
  • Health problems or general health conditions that affect the body's processing of alcohol;
  • Did you have dinner before drinking alcohol?
  • If you took alcohol at the same time as medicine;
  • Percentage of alcohol in the drink;
  • How much and how quickly you drank;
  • Can your body handle alcohol and more?

 

 

 

Source:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alcohol-poisoning/symptoms-causes/syc-20354386