Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol intoxication (according to the international classification of diseases) is a condition that occurs after drinking alcohol, characterized by a disorder in physiological, behavioral, and psychological functions.
Alcohol is a neuroparalytic poison, so it has a great negative effect on the central nervous system, causing vegetative, neurological, and mental disorders.
Regardless of the severity of alcohol intoxication, it causes a disorder in all 3 of the above functions, but to a greater extent affects mental activity. Alcohol intoxication depends on the following factors: the dose of alcohol consumed, the time of the last alcohol intake, and the psychological and biological characteristics of a person.
Alcohol intoxication depends on the alcohol content in the blood and has 3 degrees.
Depending on the degree of alcohol intoxication, mental, neurological, and vegetative functions suffer.
So, with mild alcohol intoxication, mental functions suffer.
With moderate alcohol intoxication, neurological functions suffer.
With severe alcohol intoxication, human organs and systems suffer, sometimes a person dies due to the failure of an organ or system.

Let's dwell on the degrees of alcohol intoxication in more detail:

1. Mild alcohol intoxication (alcohol concentration from 0.5 to 1.5 ppm) is characterized by a good, elevated mood, talkativeness, self-confidence, emotionality, impaired attention, impatience. Neurological disorders in the form of poor coordination of movement, and vegetative manifestations in the form of facial flushing, rapid pulse and breathing, and profuse salivation are already beginning to appear.
2. The average degree of alcohol intoxication (blood alcohol concentration from 1.5 to 2.5 ppm) is characterized by even greater slowing of thinking, slurred speech, lack of attention, and impaired orientation in time and space. A person ceases to understand others, cannot give a correct assessment of what is happening, and becomes rude. Neurological disorders are characterized by: even greater lack of coordination of movements, unsteady gait, speech impairment, and decreased sensitivity. Vegetative manifestations: facial flushing gives way to pallor, nausea and vomiting appear.
3. Severe alcohol intoxication (blood alcohol concentration from 2.5 to 4 ppm) is characterized by loss of consciousness with a passive body position, no response to painful stimuli, and constriction of the pupils. Often, with a blood alcohol concentration of more than 4 ppm, respiratory arrest and death from hypoxia occur. Chronic alcoholics with an alcohol concentration of more than 4 ppm can continue to make contact and answer questions.

The duration of alcohol intoxication depends on the following factors: gender, age, nationality, addiction to alcohol, but most of all it depends on the amount of alcohol consumed and the rate of its metabolism in the body. The alcohol in the blood of a chronic alcoholic decreases 2 times faster than in a non-drinker.
After moderate or severe alcohol intoxication, the following disorders are noted the next day for several hours: severe headache, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, trembling in the arms and legs, severe thirst, bloating, pain in the liver, sweating, palpitations, fatigue, etc. A person usually cannot work in such a state. With age, if a person continues to regularly drink alcohol, recovery to a normal state increases, and the disorders become more varied and even more severe. Posta "symptom of decompensation of well-being" is formed foamily - this is when the state of health remains bad for 1-2 days, and sometimes more. Further abuse of alcohol leads to the formation of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

If a drinking person has psychopathy, consequences of brain injuries, brain diseases, then the development of altered forms of alcohol intoxication is possible:

Dysphoric variant of intoxication - with this variant, drinkers, as a rule, become irritable, gloomy, angry, conflicted. Such manifestations are typical for chronic alcoholics, as well as for various diseases of the brain.

Paranoid variant of intoxication is characterized by suspiciousness, a tendency to interpret actions and words as a desire to insult, humiliate, deceive, aggression is possible. This variant is typical for primitive personalities

The silly variant of intoxication is more typical for teenagers and is manifested by grimaces, rowdiness, senseless violence, monotonous onomatopoeia. This variant is observed in the presence of a latent schizophrenic process.

The hysterical variant of intoxication is typical for people who are inclined to be the center of attention, who want to make an impression, who have high ambitions. Such people seem to "play to the crowd", demonstrative suicide attempts, demonstrative scenes of despair are possible.

Pathological intoxication

Pathological intoxication usually occurs under certain circumstances (fatigue, cerebral insufficiency, insomnia, psychogenia, etc.). Pathological intoxication does not look like regular alcohol intoxication, since there are no movement coordination disorders; in fact, it is a transient psychosis. There are 2 forms:

1. Epileptoid form - drinkers are completely disoriented, excited with an affect of anger, rage, fear, with senseless and cruel aggression.
2. Paranoid form - the drinker is tormented by hallucinations of a frightening nature (you can hear individual phrases of a threatening nature)

Pathological intoxication suddenly appears and also suddenly disappears, ending in deep sleep. Those suffering from the epileptoid form remember nothing, but those who drink with the paranoid form remember fragmentary, colorful memories.