Although everyone knows that drinking alcohol hurts the body, the Spring Festival is indispensable for pushing the cup and changing the lamp. In order to minimize the damage, many people will collect various home remedies and strategies for hangover and sobering up in advance, but do you know that if you fall into the wrong pit, it will hurt you even more. Let's take a look at the home remedies and must-know drinking tips that may actually make you "hang by a thread".
Strong tea hangover
It's one of the most popular hangover cures, but in fact, the caffeine in strong tea is a central nervous system stimulant that makes the heart beat faster. It has an additive effect with alcohol, which makes the heart heavier, and at the same time, after rapid diuresis, acetaldehyde is excreted from the kidneys before it has time to decompose, thus affecting kidney function.
In addition, some people mix Sprite into white wine and Coke into red wine, thinking that they can dilute the alcohol and avoid drinking too much. But in fact, carbonated drinks will make the stomach expand rapidly, increase the area of alcohol absorption in the stomach, and carbon dioxide can also promote the rapid entry of alcohol into the small intestine, increasing the absorption of alcohol in the small intestine, so it is not advisable.
"Emetic" method
Sometimes when you drink too much alcohol and feel uncomfortable, you will think of picking your throat to "induce vomiting" to relieve it. However, alcohol is quickly absorbed after ingestion, and it can enter the bloodstream in 30 minutes, even if you can spit out some alcohol, it is not worth advocating. If the emetic process is not done properly, it is likely to cut the throat. When unconscious, the person who induces vomiting is prone to aspirate vomit into the trachea, causing asphyxia. Forced vomiting can also aggravate esophageal damage, ranging from reflux esophagitis and esophageal ulcers to life-threatening bleeding in severe cases.
Just get some sleep
Many people get drunk and drowsy, and family or friends also think that they can wake up after a good night's sleep, and most of them let it go. In fact, it is very dangerous to deal with it in this way, drunk people usually lie down directly, and lying flat can easily lead to poor breathing, and if vomiting occurs, it is also easy to let the vomit enter the trachea by mistake, causing suffocation. Especially when drinking too much, drunk people will have symptoms of alcoholism such as drowsiness, clammy cold, convulsions, and coma when they fall asleep, and in severe cases, they will also be life-threatening.
Taking medicine and drinking alcohol is an absolute forbidden area
If you say that the pit above will be life-threatening after entering it by mistake, the "forbidden area" to be said below cannot cross half a step into the thunder pool, otherwise it is a typical "death". In recent years, there have been many reports of deaths caused by "disulfiram-like reactions" caused by drinking alcohol after eating cephalosporin, and people have begun to realize the violent conflict between taking drugs and drinking alcohol.
In fact, in addition to cephalosporin antibiotics, alcohol is also "compatible" with many drugs, such as sedative-hypnotic drugs, and you can only choose between taking drugs and drinking alcohol. It should be reminded that some chronic patients who need to take medicine for a long time think that they can drink normally if they take medicine on time, but in fact, it is also very harmful, and it is best to avoid alcohol. If a normal person takes cold medicine, it is best not to drink alcohol for 3 to 5 days, and if they take cephalosporins, they should abstain from alcohol for at least 7 days. The specific hazards below are summarized in place, and we must keep them in mind and avoid them.
Proper aftercare is important
After drinking, you should drink more plain water and dilute the alcohol concentration appropriately. For people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease, blood pressure and blood sugar will fluctuate abnormally after drinking, and the burden on the heart will be heavier, so it is necessary to pay attention to monitoring.
If you are really drunk and drowsy, you must have someone around to take care of you. First of all, the drunk person should untie the tie, collar, and belt, lift the jaw, and then maintain the lateral decubitus position, which can keep the breathing smooth and avoid vomit from accidentally entering the trachea and causing suffocation. If a drunk person has symptoms of alcohol poisoning, or if family members are unable to diagnose it, they should be sent to the hospital immediately**.
Although there have been many studies in the past on the health benefits of drinking small amounts, they have all been overturned in recent years. In particular, the largest study to date, published in The Lancet, came to the same conclusion: the overall health risk of the population (all-cause mortality) increases linearly in one direction as the amount of alcohol consumed, and the level of alcohol consumption guaranteed with minimal health loss is virtually zero. There is no so-called "warning level" for drinking, only if you don't stick to a drop of alcohol, otherwise the damage will only be n+1 times. It can not only cause irreversible damage to the stomach, liver, cardiovascular, brain, eyes and other organs, but also a high-risk factor for many cancers. Therefore, although the meaning of drinking wine is good, you must not be greedy.
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