What to do if you have alcohol poisoning

What should you do if you are poisoned by alcohol? In fact, alcohol poisoning refers to excessive drinking that causes stimulation of the nerve center, which makes people excited, but then has a more inhibitory effect. Severe poisoning can cause respiratory and cardiac failure, and even death in severe cases. So what should you do if you discover alcohol poisoning? Let’s take a look at the following introduction.

Once we drink too much, we will become drunk and suffer from acute alcohol poisoning. After the patient is drunk, if the patient is suffering from moderate or above alcohol poisoning, we recommend that we send the patient to the hospital and take timely treatment such as gastric lavage and infusion. If the rescue is timely, there are generally no sequelae. So, what should we do if we are suffering from alcohol poisoning? For people with mild alcohol poisoning, it is necessary to take measures to sober up in time to reduce the harm caused by alcohol.

Symptoms of drunkenness: If you drink too much and get completely drunk, it will cause acute ethanol poisoning. Its clinical manifestations can be divided into three stages: Excitement stage: At this time, the lower centers of the cerebral cortex are excited, the face is flushed, the spirit is excited, the conversation is incessant, the crying and laughing are unpredictable, dizziness, headache, etc. The blood alcohol concentration reaches about 0.1%. Ataxia stage: At this time, the excited state disappears, and the person becomes slow to react, clumsy in movements, staggering, and even loses balance, becomes confused, and speaks incoherently. The blood alcohol concentration can reach about 0.2%. Coma stage: At this time, the cerebral cortex is in a highly inhibited state, and the patient may appear pale, have cyanotic lips, a rapid pulse, incontinence, and drowsiness and coma. At this time, if the blood alcohol concentration rises to about 0.6%, it often leads to respiratory paralysis and respiratory arrest, which is the most common cause of death from drunkenness.

Measures to sober up. Let the drunk person sleep quietly, keep warm in winter, and apply cold compress on the head. Apply the medicine as soon as possible. You can use chopsticks to stimulate the throat to promote application and reduce the irritation of alcohol to the gastric mucosa. You can drink more water (warm water, light salt water, sugar water or honey water, mung bean soup, etc.) to lower the alcohol concentration in the blood and speed up urination so that alcohol can be quickly excreted with urine. Eat more fruits, such as pears, oranges, apples, watermelons, tomatoes, etc., to use fructose to burn off ethanol. You can take vitamin B1 and vitamin E to promote the decomposition of ethanol. If you are more drunk, take 5 grams of white sugar and 30 ml of vinegar, and drink it all at once after the sugar is dissolved.

After solving the causes of alcohol poisoning, we have a certain understanding of what to do in the event of alcohol poisoning. We hope that after we know that alcohol poisoning has occurred, we will take emergency measures in a timely manner to help people solve the harm of alcohol poisoning, which is most beneficial to people's health.