Contributed by: Fukun, mother of the Substance Dependence Department of Guangyuan Mental Health Center
The Spring Festival is one of the most solemn and distinctive traditional festivals in China. Visiting relatives and friends, reunion dinner is an indispensable and important activity of the Spring Festival, drinking alcohol is inevitable in the party, although drinking can set off the atmosphere, but excessive drinking will bring bad effects to the body. So what should I pay attention to when drinking during the Spring Festival?
1. Pay attention to the appropriate amount
Regardless of how much alcohol you drink, drinking in moderation is the best choice. Drink alcohol every day to control the amount, don't think that you can drink too much, so it is easy for the liver to be stimulated by alcohol in a short period of time, thereby inducing various liver diseases, and even some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases due to liver damage.
2. Don't drink on an empty stomach
Try to let yourself eat some food before drinking, drinking alcohol on an empty stomach is easy to damage the gastric mucosa, and it is easy to let too much alcohol be absorbed by the liver into the bloodstream and cause other organs of the body to be affected, therefore, eat some food properly before drinking to ensure that alcohol is not absorbed too much by the body.
3. Drink slowly
When drinking, you should let yourself drink as slowly as possible, so as to avoid the liver absorbing too much alcohol in a short period of time and causing the burden to increase, drinking slowly allows the alcohol to slowly enter the body, and also allows the liver to have time to break down and excrete alcohol. Also be careful not to drink carbonated beverages when drinking, carbonated drinks can make the stomach expand rapidly, and will also allow alcohol to be absorbed quickly, making it easier to get drunk.
4. Be careful not to take a shower right away
There are many people who want to get rid of the alcohol on their bodies as soon as possible after drinking, and take a bath immediately after returning home, but it is very dangerous to take a bath in a half-drunk and half-awake state, and taking a bath after drinking will make the body's blood pressure rise suddenly, and it is easy to experience dizziness and fatigue, and even fall.
5. Don't go to bed right away
It is easy to feel sleepy when you are drunk after drinking, but because alcohol needs to be digested and decomposed by the liver, if you let yourself fall asleep quickly, it is easy to slow down the body's metabolism and affect the liver.
6. Don't drink alcohol after taking the drug
As long as you take medicine, you are no longer suitable for drinking. Whether it is red wine, beer or liquor, as long as you take the medicine, it is not suitable to drink alcohol within one to two days of stopping the medicine. Especially in the case of alcohol consumption, drug metabolism can cause liver damage or abnormal liver function. Among them, some drugs with the functions of sleep, analgesic, depression, hypoglycemic and other functions have a very serious reaction to alcohol, and if you take this kind of drug and then drink alcohol, it will cause a series of extreme discomfort called disulfiram-like reactions in medicine, which is life-threatening, and it is recommended that everyone refuse alcohol, especially when taking antibacterial drugs.