Is acute alcohol poisoning related to acetaldehyde?

February 24, 2021

Is acute alcohol poisoning related to acetaldehyde?

There are cases of acute alcohol intoxication, such as people who have never drunk much alcohol suddenly collapsing after drinking, or even people who are accustomed to drinking, drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time and losing consciousness.

 

Symptoms of acute alcohol poisoning include clouding of consciousness, drop in blood pressure, chills, cold sweats, palpitations, and inability to breathe, which can lead to sudden loss of consciousness or, in severe cases, coma and death.

In addition, the inability to breathe can cause permanent brain damage, making acute alcohol poisoning a very dangerous condition.

What are the causes of acute alcohol poisoning?
As for acute alcohol poisoning, first of all, when alcohol enters the body, it has an effect on the body. This is the anesthetic effect.

If the anesthetic effect becomes too strong, you will not be able to breathe and your brain will not work, right?

Following that, the acetaldehyde level in your body will jump up after 30 minutes of drinking alcohol. Acetaldehyde is a poison that rusts the body, so when the acetaldehyde level rises, various organs in the body start to fail.

In other words, you can think of acute alcohol poisoning as a combination of the strong anesthetic effect of alcohol and the damage to various organs caused by acetaldehyde.

Treatment of Acute Alcoholism
Until now, the only way to save acute alcohol poisoning was to wash out the stomach, put glucose into the blood by IV drip, warm the body, and if that didn’t work, send the patient to dialysis.

However, from now on, we will be able to do things like administering something that effectively lowers alcohol and acetaldehyde.

Drinking a lot of alcohol in a short period of time is not recommended.
However, there is no doubt that acute alcohol poisoning is a very dangerous condition.

Acute alcohol intoxication is caused by drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time, which causes the alcohol concentration in the blood to rise rapidly.

Therefore, even if you are able to drink alcohol, it is recommended that you keep your own pace, especially during the first 30 minutes of drinking, and take it easy. Never drink alcohol if you are constitutionally incapable of drinking. Also, please consider that forcing a person who cannot drink alcohol to drink or encouraging him/her to drink in one go is a very dangerous act.