What happens if you drink liquor on an empty stomach

In daily life, we find that many elderly people will take a bottle of wine, a small wine glass, and drink a few glasses of wine with some peanuts before a formal meal. Usually, they are on an empty stomach at this time. Drinking white wine on an empty stomach can actually cause physical discomfort. At this time, alcohol will irritate the stomach, which is particularly likely to cause stomach discomfort and nausea and vomiting. In addition, long-term drinking like this can cause problems with brain nerves. This article introduces the consequences of drinking liquor on an empty stomach. Let’s take a look.

Drinking white wine on an empty stomach will cause there is no food in the stomach to relieve the pain. The white wine will directly stimulate and erode the gastric mucosa and muscle layer, destroy gastric acid, inhibit the secretion of various gastrointestinal digestive enzymes, slow down gastrointestinal motility, and easily cause nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and bloating, loss of appetite, sluggish digestion, and constipation.

At the same time, drinking white wine on an empty stomach will cause the alcohol components to be absorbed quickly, which will have a greater impact on organs and tissues such as the brain, nerves, muscles, heart, liver, and kidneys. It can cause dizziness, tinnitus, mental depression, fatigue, muscle tremors, heartbeat and shortness of breath, swelling and pain in the liver area, yellow and less urine, and burning pain when urinating.

Frequent drinking of white wine on an empty stomach can also cause more serious chronic diseases, such as: gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic gastroenteritis, mixed hemorrhoids, amnesia and insomnia, intellectual impairment, hallucinations and visual hallucinations, neurasthenia, muscle atrophy and yellow skin, numbness of limbs, tachycardia, arrhythmia, angina pectoris, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, hepatomegaly, cirrhosis, kidney stones, uremia, etc.

From this we can see that although drinking white wine on an empty stomach can bring some small benefits, it can cause a lot of harm. Therefore, no matter what kind of liquor, it is not suitable to drink on an empty stomach, especially avoid drinking strong liquor when hungry, otherwise, the harm will be more serious. Liquor should be consumed when food in the stomach is not fully digested (i.e. not feeling hungry) or after eating some food, which can reduce the harm of liquor to the body.