Does drinking alcohol hurt your spleen?

It is inevitable to drink and chat when interacting with others, but when drinking, remember not to drink too much, because some special substances in the wine can easily irritate the gastrointestinal organs of the human body. And before drinking, you should eat something to fill your stomach, which can effectively prevent drunkenness. Some readers may also be very worried about whether long-term drinking will damage the spleen.

Drinking alcohol causes comprehensive harm to the human body, especially drinking on an empty stomach.

First of all, drinking alcohol directly damages the liver, causing alcoholic liver disease, hepatitis, and cirrhosis. Once the liver is damaged, vision will inevitably decline, and the body's detoxification ability will also decline, resulting in a decrease in immunity and susceptibility to other diseases and tumors.

Secondly, drinking alcohol hurts the stomach, causing poor digestion, poor physical fitness, and susceptibility to other diseases.

Third, drinking alcohol can also damage the heart, spleen, and pancreas, and can easily cause high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and pancreatitis.

Fourth, drinking alcohol can damage the kidneys, cause prostatitis, and affect sexual function.

Fifth, drinking alcohol damages your nerves. People who drink frequently will become dependent on alcohol and become irritable and restless.

Sixth, drinking alcohol harms your appearance. People who drink frequently look haggard and their skin is prone to aging.

Precautions

1. Before drinking

1. Before drinking, you can only eat until you are 70% full and do not drink a lot of water. (This is to leave room for drinking)

2. Drink a bottle of milk half an hour before drinking, preferably pure milk or milk with sugar, to prevent alcoholic gastritis and dehydration. Drinking milk with sugar or honey can not only promote the decomposition of ethanol, but also protect the gastric mucosa. Since dehydration will cause salt loss, you can drink some light salt water or rehydration salt in moderation. (It’s most important to save trouble)

3. Do not drink on an empty stomach, because alcohol is absorbed quickly on an empty stomach and people get drunk easily. The best prevention method is to eat oily foods, such as fatty meat, pork knuckles, etc., or drink milk before drinking, and use the indigestible nature of fat in food to protect the stomach and prevent alcohol from penetrating the stomach wall. This is the main trick to drinking without getting drunk. Because this can prolong the time that ethanol is absorbed in the body.

2. Wine

1. When drinking, avoid drinking ice water, lemonade and other stimulating beverages, otherwise the milk you drank before will be in vain; do not drink it with carbonated beverages such as cola, soda, etc., as the ingredients in these beverages can speed up the body's absorption of alcohol.

2. When drinking white wine, do not drink it all at once, but drink it in several sips. When drinking beer, you must wait until the beer foam settles before drinking it, otherwise, you may suffer from abdominal bloating and discomfort at the least, or even severe constipation.

3. Drink yogurt between drinks - needless to say, acid and alcohol = water

4. Since alcohol can cause great damage to the liver, you should eat more green leafy vegetables when drinking. The antioxidants and vitamins in them can protect the liver. You can also eat some soy products, the lecithin in them can protect the liver.

5. It is better to go slow than to go fast. Ethanol can enter the blood within five minutes after drinking, and the blood ethanol concentration can reach its peak within 30 to 120 minutes. If you drink quickly, the ethanol concentration in your blood will rise quickly, and you will soon become drunk. If you drink it slowly, your body will have enough time to break down the ethanol, so the amount of ethanol produced will be less, making it less likely to get drunk.

6. Combine food and drink. When drinking, what is the best way to avoid getting drunk? Pork liver is the best. This is not only because of its rich nutrition, but also because pork liver can improve the body's detoxification ability of ethanol. People who drink frequently will cause the loss of vitamin B in the body, and pork liver is the food richest in vitamin B. Therefore, eating boiled or fried pork liver is an ideal dish to go with wine.

3. After drinking

1. You cannot drink vinegar or tea to sober up after drinking. These are all misunderstandings. Neither vinegar nor tea can sober up.

2. It is best not to drink strong tea after being drunk, but you can drink some light tea. The tea polyphenols in tea have a certain liver-protecting effect, but the tea alkaloids in strong tea can cause blood vessels to constrict and blood pressure to rise, which will aggravate headaches. If someone drinks too much involuntarily, they can eat some fruit or drink some juice afterwards, because the acidic components in fruit and juice can neutralize the alcohol. Many people often do not eat after drinking, which is more harmful. They should eat some easily digestible food, such as a bowl of noodles.

3. Add fruit to dessert. Eating some desserts and fruits immediately after drinking can help you stay sober. As the saying goes, "Eating sweet persimmons after drinking alcohol will make the smell of alcohol disappear." This is true. Fruits such as sweet persimmons contain large amounts of fructose, which can oxidize ethanol and accelerate its metabolism. Sweet desserts have roughly the same effect.

4. After drinking, you can try to drink hot soup, especially fish soup stewed with shredded ginger, which is particularly effective in sobering up.

5. If you vomit continuously after drinking, you should immediately find a bottle of mineral water to drink to avoid vomiting blood due to empty stomach.

6. After vomiting, do not eat immediately, especially barbecued food.

7. Please remember to place a container at the head of the bed before going to bed to avoid vomiting when you wake up after sleeping and vomiting before you reach the bathroom.

8. The next day, if you feel stomach acid, please take Weishuping and drink water after the stomach acid subsides.

9. If you have stomach pain, you can take other stomach medicines as appropriate, and do not take painkillers, because painkillers have little effect on stomach pain.

10. You can choose hot drinks such as soy milk and milk for breakfast. If you still need to go to work, you can choose refreshing drinks such as Pulse and Red Bull to ensure that you do not delay your work.