The health of a child or teenager largely determines the future opportunities of an adult. Alcohol, having a negative impact on a woman's health, also disrupts the normal functioning of her genitals. Here are some figures. The famous Russian researcher S.Z. Pashchenkov observed 3,300 patients treated for female alcoholism for 5 years. 85.3 percent of them had chronic diseases, and 40.6 percent of women suffered from diseases of the genital area.
In general, female alcoholics are 2.5 times more likely than non-drinkers to have various gynecological diseases. Alcohol abuse, destroying a woman's body, exhausts her nervous and endocrine systems and ultimately leads to infertility. In addition, female alcoholics often lead a promiscuous sex life, which is inevitably accompanied by inflammatory diseases of the genitals and ends in infertility.
The state of intoxication at the time of conception can have an extremely negative effect on the health of the future child, since alcohol is dangerous not only for maturing germ cells, but can also play a fatal role at the time of fertilization of completely full-fledged (normal) germ cells. Moreover, the strength of the damaging effect of alcohol at the time of conception is unpredictable: there can be both mild disorders and severe organic lesions of various organs and tissues of the future child. Doctors call the period from the moment of conception to 3 months of pregnancy critical in the development of the fetus, since at this time there is an intensive laying of organs and formation of tissues. Alcohol consumption has a deforming effect on the fetus, and the damage will be more severe the earlier the critical period is when alcohol is used.
A special term has appeared in medical literature to denote a complex of defects in children caused by the damaging effects of alcohol during intrauterine development - fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), or fetal alcohol syndrome. FAS is characterized by congenital anomalies in the development of the heart, external genitalia, dysfunction of the central nervous system, low birth weight, and delayed growth and development of the child. Children with fetal alcohol syndrome have characteristic facial features: a small head, especially the face, narrow eyes, a specific fold of the eyelids, and a thin upper lip.
Drinking alcoholic beverages is dangerous throughout pregnancy, as alcohol easily penetrates from the mother through the placenta through the blood vessels that feed the fetus. The effect of alcohol on the fetus in the subsequent months of pregnancy leads to prematurity, decreased birth weight, stillbirth, and deformities. Photos of the consequences of female alcoholism
A nursing mother should remember that alcohol has an extremely harmful effect on the body of a
infant, and primarily on its nervous system. Even insignificant doses of alcohol that enter the infant's body with mother's milk can cause serious disturbances in the central nervous system, and in some cases even have irreversible consequences.
Under the influence of alcohol, a child becomes restless, sleeps poorly, may have seizures, and subsequently, a delay in mental development. If a nursing mother suffers from female alcoholism and alcohol regularly enters the baby's body, then, in addition to the above-mentioned complications, the child may develop "infantile alcohol dependence syndrome".
A glass in the hands of a girl. A beautiful fragile glass on a thin stem, and the wine in it shimmers and plays in the light with warm amber reflections. Looking at it, a person who loves poetry might recall
Blok's lines about a glass of "golden, like the sky". A gourmet would anticipate a slightly tart, cooling taste
and a subtle aroma...
"And I, a doctor, catch myself in associations of a completely different kind, by no means pleasant or poetic! I see
before me a gallery of flabby faces, spread out in
heavy stupor of bodies, I hear the sound of broken glass,
hoarse curses. What can you do!.. The profession of a psychiatrist
for many years I have encountered the collapse of human
fates, with illnesses and misfortunes, at the source of which
stood precisely it - golden, like the sky...".
These bitter words belong to the honored doctor of the RSFSR I.K. Yanushevsky, who devoted many years to the fight against the consequences of alcohol abuse.
There is evidence that the life expectancy of female alcoholics is 10% less, and male alcoholics 15% less than non-drinkers. But this is not the only harm of alcohol. At the beginning of the century, the German doctor Kraepelin wrote that the consequences of alcoholism are not so terrible, while half of humanity - women - are almost not involved in alcohol. But when
female alcoholism
becomes widespread, then "our descendants will be threatened with complete destruction." Unfortunately, the abuse of wine has ceased to be a sad privilege of men.
Female alcoholism is manifested by the inability to breastfeed children. According to experts, this deficiency occurs in 30-40% of women who regularly consume alcohol. Alcoholic beverages also have a significant impact on reproductive function. Firstly, female alcoholism leads to early aging. A drinking woman of 30 years, as a rule, looks older, and an alcoholic by the age of 40 turns into an old woman. The negative effect of wine on offspring has been known since ancient times. Long before our time, it was noted that people who drink more often have stillborn children and miscarriages. If the child is born alive, then it often lags behind in development and grows up mentally disabled. It is no coincidence that the laws of Ancient Greece and Rome prohibited young people from drinking alcohol. A drunken husband was forbidden to approach his wife. A law was passed prohibiting newlyweds from drinking wine. In Rus', it has also long been considered a bad sign to drink wine at your own wedding. The connection between children's health and the condition of their parents has been noted in other countries as well.
The health of newborns depends on the conditions of formation of the parents' reproductive cells, intrauterine development, the course of labor and, finally, the conditions of the postpartum period. At all these stages, contact of the fetus and newborn with alcohol is dangerous due to its physical and mental consequences, and the risk of deformity and disease is higher, the greater the degree of exposure of alcohol to a living organism. Specific forms of damage are also determined by the stage of development at which alcohol intoxication occurs. It has been found that the effects of alcohol during intrauterine development lead to underdevelopment of the fetus or its individual organs (deformities), and increased mortality in newborns.
Consequences of female alcoholism photo
. Alcohol entering the child's body with mother's milk causes nervous disorders (including mental disorders, mental retardation), diseases of the digestive organs (mainly the liver), cardiovascular system, etc.
Many cases of alcohol poisoning of infants due to their mothers drinking wine and beer have been described. Why do they do this? In most cases, the mothers of the affected children answered this question:
to have more milk. Such "stimulation" of milk production ended very badly! Children had convulsions, and sometimes even developed real epileptic seizures.
Back at the end of the last century, the French doctor Demme, studying the offspring of alcoholic families, found that almost 50% of their children died in early childhood, and of the remaining 10% suffered from epilepsy and hydrocephalus, 12% grew up idiots and only 10% were healthy.
Female alcoholism... This is a disaster in itself. It is not for nothing that people say: "The husband drinks - half the house burns, the wife drinks - the whole house burns." But how does the mother feel, knowing that her child was born defective due to her fault? One woman (not suffering from female alcoholism at all) gave birth to a child with a severe mental disorder. Doctors found out the reason: throughout her pregnancy, the expectant mother drank cocktails that contained alcohol. Just a few grams of alcohol dissolved in a tonic drink and severe mental disorders in a baby who will be doomed for the rest of his life!
A woman should not drink a single gram of alcohol until the day the child weans from the mother's breast. There should be no exceptions. It's like a law. A woman preparing to become a mother cannot help but know that at the beginning of its development the fetus does not yet have independent blood circulation and that when takingany dose of alcohol, its concentration in the blood of the mother and fetus is the same.
The inheritance of mental retardation from alcoholic parents is beyond doubt. A more complex question is whether a predisposition to alcoholism is inherited. The ancient Greek writer Plutarch (46-126) wrote that "drunkards give birth to drunkards." However, only with the successes of modern genetics did it become possible to test this assumption. Medical genetics uses various methods to prove heredity in the origin of a particular trait. But in any case, information is collected about family genealogies, including distant ancestors and distant relatives. This information is systematized and analyzed, on the basis of which certain conclusions are made. If a disease is caused by hereditary reasons, then among the patient's relatives there will be many times more pathological changes than among the entire population (statistically significant differences).
The "purest" experimental conditions are created when studying the heredity of twins. If one of the twins had to live in a sober environment, and the other got into a drunken company, then the first one usually does not become an alcoholic, while the risk of alcoholism in the second one increases sharply.
Statistical and genetic studies have proven that alcoholism itself is not genetically transmitted, only a tendency to it is transmitted, resulting from the character traits received from parents.
And whether a person will be an alcoholic or not is a question that is decided by a specific life situation, i.e., environmental conditions.
In the development of drunkenness in children of alcoholics, the decisive role is played by bad examples of parents, the atmosphere of drunkenness at home, in the family. It is worth an authoritative family member, say, a grandfather, convincingly condemning an alcoholic son, as the chances that the grandson will be a teetotaler immediately increase. So, alcoholism is not inherited, and the fight against it depends on the will and behavior of the drinking person. The role of heredity in the development of alcoholism can only be indirect: some character trait or disease is transmitted genetically, contributing to a reduced resistance to the “drunken lifestyle”.