Contents:
- Medical Video: Drunk vs Stoned
- What is it like, does it feel like drunk alcohol?
- Stages of change in the body when drunk alcohol
- 1. Relax
- 2. Euphoria
- 3. Heavy drinking
- 4. Missing balance
- 5. Fainting
- 6. Comma
- 7. Death
Medical Video: Drunk vs Stoned
Everyone might already know that too much alcohol is not good for health. However, there are still many people who are willing to get drunk on alcohol just to get the sensation even if only for a few moments. In fact, over time these bad habits can eat away the body and trigger various diseases. Starting from hypertension, liver function disorders, brain damage, cancer, to death.
What is it like, does it feel like drunk alcohol?
The habit of drinking alcohol is one of the factors causing health problems. Based on data from the 2007 RISKESDAS, as many as 5.5 percent of the Indonesian population aged 15-24 years like to drink alcohol. This figure continues to increase to 6.7 percent in residents aged 25 to 34 years.
At first, people who start getting drunk will experience a sensationtipsyor kliyengan's head. I was so dizzy, you could not stand up and want to continue to sit to reduce the sensation of spinning in the head.
Toxins in alcohol will continue to enter the blood vessels and poison the body. The initial sign of alcoholism will usually appear after men consume 2 to 3 glasses of alcohol, while women will experience it after drinking 1 to 2 glasses of alcohol in one hour.
Stages of change in the body when drunk alcohol
Fast or slow someone experiencing alcoholism can vary. This depends on age, gender, body posture, and alcohol tolerance.
Alcohol tolerance is the body's resistance to alcohol which increases over time. People who are accustomed to drinking alcohol usually have a low alcohol tolerance so they will drink more alcohol to achieve the intoxicating effects that are targeted.
There are seven stages that will occur when you are drunk with alcohol, including:
1. Relax
People who have just drunk one glass of alcohol in one hour will usually feel the sensation of calm or relax. This is influenced by a low blood alcohol level (BAC), which ranges from 0.01 to 0.05 percent.
At this stage, alcohol drinkers still look normal and can move as usual. It is often this relaxed and light sensation that triggers us to drink more alcohol. This certainly aims to get a more intense sensation, as expected.
2. Euphoria
You will begin to feel the euphoric sensation,fly, or excessive happiness after guzzling 2 to 3 glasses for men or 1 to 2 glasses for women in one hour. Usually, the BAC level starts to increase, which is around 0.03 to 0.12 percent.
People who experience mild alcoholism tend to talk a lot and become more confident in front of people. They even dare to take risks and are not ashamed when acting out of bounds even though they are conscious.
3. Heavy drinking
A person can be said to be drunk alcohol after he drank 3 to 5 glasses of alcohol for men, and 2 to 4 glasses of alcohol for women in one hour. This happens because the liver (liver) can no longer produce the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme to convert alcohol to acetaldehyde.
If you drink a lot of alcohol beyond your heart's ability to neutralize it, you will begin to experience alcoholism. This is usually marked by changes in emotions that are unstable, whether it's easy to be happy or sad.
Slowly, you will also begin to lose concentration and find it difficult to remember everything that happened before. The view seems blurred, feels easily tired, so sleepy. This is influenced by the level of BAC in the blood which reaches 0.09 to 0.25 percent.
4. Missing balance
Over time, alcohol will enter the blood vessels and affect various bodily functions. When you drink more alcohol, which is 5 glasses of alcohol in men and 4 glasses of alcohol in women, body and brain function will slowly decrease.
Often this causes a person to be difficult to stand up and walk. Your views will be increasingly blurred, black, and unclear. This condition occurs as an effect of increasing levels of BAC, which is 0.18 to 0.30 percent.
5. Fainting
The more alcohol you drink, the stronger the influence of alcohol on the body. Drunk alcohol causes the body to experience dehydration, vomiting, convulsions, and fainting more quickly.
In this phase, you can no longer respond to everything that happens around you. Your body will be difficult to move so that it cannot stand or walk, pale face, skin turns blue until it has a seizure.
Alcohol will suppress the hormone vasopressin arginine in the body, whose job is to maintain water levels in the body. Without this hormone, water in the body will quickly drain and make all organs dehydrated, including the brain. As a result, you will feel the sensation of intense pain in the head.
The fatal impact is that you can't even breathe normally. This can be a sign of danger and needs to be addressed by a doctor to save your life.
6. Comma
Yes, drinking alcohol can also make you coma. This condition can occur after you drink large amounts of alcohol until the blood BAC level reaches 0.35 to 0.45 percent.
7. Death
Your body is no longer able to tolerate alcohol levels in blood vessels. All organs of the body are damaged because they are poisoned by alcohol, starting from the heart, pancreas, liver, and intestines. If BAC levels reach 0.45 percent or more, a person can experience death from alcohol poisoning.
