Withdrawal from binge drinking
Binge drinking is the highest stage of alcohol addiction, when an alcoholic drinks for several days, and sometimes a month.
Why does this happen and how to get out of binge drinking?
During a binge, an alcoholic does not drink for pleasure, the narcotic properties of alcohol are very strong and the person is forced to drink in order not to die. Alcohol, like other drugs, causes withdrawal symptoms (by the way, it is in 5th place out of 20 in the drug rating). At some point, a drunkard loses control over alcohol, he develops withdrawal symptoms (morning hangover), which he cannot endure. An alcoholic knows from his own experience or the experience of his "colleagues" that repeated alcohol intake can overcome this withdrawal symptom (very similar to drug addicts, isn't it?). A new portion of alcohol returns a person to a "good" state of health, but after a few hours the withdrawal symptoms appear again, which are stronger than the previous one, and a new dose of alcohol is required. This is the mechanism of binge drinking (a vicious circle). The drinker is not to blame for not being able to stop the binge, he is a slave to alcohol addiction and is in a serious condition, from which the mortality rate is still quite high today. Statistics show that every year thousands of people cannot stop binge drinking (they die), and alcohol is not inferior to heroin in mortality. Of course, heroin is much stronger than alcohol, but it is not as accessible as alcohol. It is the availability of alcohol for everyone that makes it equal to heroin.
For many relatives of an alcoholic, a binge is a tragedy, and they sometimes run to the kiosk for another dose of alcohol just so that this hell would end. However, this is a mistake, relatives need to understand that the withdrawal symptoms will be repeated again and again, because alcohol is the cause of everything. Relatives need to be patient and call experienced narcologists to their home or take the drinker to a drug treatment hospital. Doctors will get you out of a binge within a few hours, get your loved one back on his feet and return him to a sober, healthy state.
What to do if your loved one doesn't want to get rid of a binge in a hospital?
- You don't need to rush at a drunk person and take away his bottles, it's useless, since a person is insane during a binge. It is better to wait for a convenient opportunity and take care of your own health.
- You should not call a doctor to your home to help you get over a drinking binge if your loved one is drunk, it is not safe. It is better not to touch a drunk, let him sleep it off, besides, drunks cannot be given some medications.
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It is best to help you get over a drinking binge when your loved one begins to sober up and starts to have withdrawal symptoms (hangover). At this moment, he is shaking, his blood pressure is high, his pulse quickens, he starts to sweat, he feels weak, and he starts asking you to give him a drink to cure his hangover. The time for action has come! Of course, he will feel better if you give him alcohol, but then the drinking binge will continue, because "a hangover is a new drinking binge". Instead of alcohol, suggest calling a doctor. In this state, drinkers, as a rule, beg you to help them just to get rid of withdrawal symptoms. To help you get over a drinking binge, you can call a doctor to your home or call an ambulance. Remember, if you do not get someone out of a binge in time, it can cause a stroke, acute heart failure, toxic cerebral edema, hypertensive crisis, epileptic seizure, death. An experienced doctor will relieve the drinker of a hangover within 30 minutes, provide drug-induced sleep, and after the patient sleeps it off, he will lose his craving for alcohol, which means the binge will end and here you will need to think about how to make the person part with alcohol forever.
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You should not get someone out of a binge on your own, it is better to entrust the withdrawal from a binge to a doctor, because the doctor takes into account many parameters such as: the state of the cardiovascular system, the state of the psyche, the state of the liver, gender, age, side effects of drugs, etc.
- So, let's sum it up: if your loved one last drank in the evening, and in the morning he hasn't had time to get over his hangover, then you need to act before the withdrawal symptoms gain strength and he reaches for the bottley.
Detoxification at home
We still do not recommend detoxification at home, but trust doctors who know how to detoxify and deal with hangovers and other unpleasant aspects of drunkenness.
But there are still some fairly harmless recipes that will help you get out of a binge at home:
Here is one of them (getting out of a binge at home):
- Take one teaspoon of ammonia, dilute it in a glass of boiled water and let it drink in one gulp.
- Prepare fruit drink, juice, mineral water in a volume of at least 2 liters + one tablespoon of 9% vinegar diluted in 1 liter of boiled water, a total of 3 liters of liquid (your loved one should drink this amount of liquid during the day).
- For edema, you can take a diuretic (Veroshpiron -4 tablets or others).
- Aspirin, 1 tablet 2 times a day.
- Nootropil 3 capsules in the morning and afternoon, take before meals (this drug improves blood supply to the brain, eliminates hypoxia, improves energy processes in the brain, restores impaired brain function).
- Enterosgel take 2 teaspoons 3 times a day 1 hour before meals.
- Vitamin complexes (Vitrum, Centrum, Oligovit, Complevit, etc.) should be taken in double doses if well tolerated). Take a contrast shower.
Diet for withdrawal from binge drinking at home:
- Prepare khash (thick broth from bone lamb or beef).
- ?© and from sauerkraut
- Honey for tea
We still recommend that you seek specialized medical help, and not get out of binge drinking at home!
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