Why drinking can cause death?
Experts remind that drinking can induce acute myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, especially in the elderly and patients with hypertension, diabetes and other underlying diseases. In addition, drinking can also lead to acute pancreatitis and acute gastrointestinal bleeding, and severe cardiac arrest.
Some drugs, such as some cephalosporins (cefoperazone as representative), metronidazole, etc., can cause the alcohol metabolite acetaldehyde can not be degraded, accumulate in the body, causing acetaldehyde poisoning phenomenon, that is, disulfiram-like reaction, appear Facial flushing, headache, dizziness, abdominal pain, vomiting, shortness of breath, low blood pressure, and other symptoms, severe respiratory and circulatory failure can cause death.
As alcohol can cause blood vessels to dilate and increase heat dissipation, especially in cold environments, it can easily cause inadvertent hypothermia, causing coagulation dysfunction, metabolic acidosis, cardiac depression, and even multiple organ dysfunction, causing alcoholist accidents. death.
Drinking patients often drowse for a long time. If the limb is inactive, muscle ischemic necrosis may occur at long-term compression sites, resulting in dissolution of rhabdomyolysis. When the body is relieved of pressure, acute alcoholic toxic muscle disease occurs. Muscles dissolve and release a large amount of necrotic substances into the blood, causing multiple organ dysfunction and even sudden death.
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