Alcoholism and The Impact to Your Health
Posted by riocaesar | Posted in Health and Medical | Posted on 03-11-2010
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Alcoholism or so called alcohol dependency is long ago been known. Alcohol is something that most people never miss, almost every people drink it, and the number of alcoholism is still raising due to the some mental problem that some people have. Mostly, alcoholism occurs when someone feels into depression state, so they chose alcohol to keep their mind calm. Knowing that alcohol is the only way to solve their problems, this seems to create withdrawal symptom that bring them up to keep drinking more and more until they got into alcoholism state.
Depression can make some people to choose alcohol to solve their problems
A long term excess drinking of alcohol can cause some health problems:
1. Liver failure and cirrhosis
Alcohol can destroy the liver and makes it fail to work. The remain damaged live will likely to form some scar, this condition is called as liver cirrhosis. Mostly cirrhosis leads to the liver cancer and the prognoses is really bad for the people who suffer from it.
Liver cirrhosis
2. Pancreatitis
The inflammation of the pancreas is mostly found in alcoholism patient. This is because the damage of the pancreas because the effect of excess alcohol inside the blood. The pancreatitis can lead to fatal death, because if the pancreas is badly damaged, it would break and spill its enzyme that can damage to the whole organ inside your stomach. Pancreas’ enzyme is known to digest protein, as protein is whole structure of human organs.
Pancreatitis that causes damage to the bowel and the other structures inside abdomen
3. Brain damage
Excess alcohol in blood can cause brain damage, this leads to the dementia and for the worst, death.
4. Cancer
Alcohol is known as abuse substance, it can cause cancer at the mouth, esophagus, and trachea.
5. Cardiovascular
The excess drinking of alcohol can lead to the most serious problem to your heart. It could destroy the muscle of your heart and would likely to lead to heart failure. Also, alcohol can lead to the heart coronary disease.
Stop alcoholism start from now, contact your drug rehabilation facility if you really want to change!
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