Archive for the ‘Narcology - Alcoholism’ category

Alcohol and SCP

September 8th, 2010

Question: My MCh likes to drink. He drinks mostly vodka or cognac. Drinks often, usually in a few (as he says, for the vessels to relax, sleep better, and so forth), but it also happens that the drink may be more than enough. Whole situation more difficult is that a man has chronic renal failure. He argues that dialysis washes out alcohol, and that the harm from him not so much. I understand that this is not so, especially given his illness. I very much want to influence it, I want to, he finally realized that alcohol should be discarded, but how to do it, can not imagine. Can you please tell what you can do the most and how important it is to see a doctor? Which? And as gently hint MCh, you need to see a doctor? Thanks in advance. I hope very much for your respons

Answer: probably be talking about alcoholism, if the person does not ponimat that in diseases of the kidneys alcohol should be isklyuchon. But accurate diagnosis can be established only by a physician, psychiatrist narcologist, after full-time inspection. The doctor also appoint necessary, individual, treatment.

Threw beer

September 7th, 2010

Question: I recently decided to start up with a beer and stop drinking it completely. Prior to that he drank beer every day for almost a year, a lot, 2-2,5 liters per day. After 10-13 days, began with health problems, dizziness, weakness, lost productivity, has become a very bad sleep. At the moment had passed 2 months without beer, things improved somewhat, I feel more / less, remained weak, but not always, but as if in waves, sometimes the head spinning yet, but the viability slowly regenerates. Normal? How can I speed up the process of withdrawal from this state without resorting to drugs

Answer: Yeah. Continue to lead a healthy lifestyle, enjoy a workout, take a multivitamin, drink soothing teas and fees.

I feel sick the next day, after taking alcohol

September 6th, 2010

Question: Good afternoon, before I had all the normal, drank constantly, but not when not ill. Six months ago, after a strong hangover started vomiting and tear, where the whole next day after the revelry was bad. But I could svobono drink 4 cups of beer on an empty stomach, and vomiting the next day I would not. And now, even after such a small dose, nausea, what is it

Answer: You probably have formed alcohol withdrawal syndrome, suggesting the presence of alcohol dependence. You need to start treatment of alcohol dependence, which should be full-time to see a doctor, psychiatrist narcologists.

Poisoning champagne (?)

September 6th, 2010

Question: I would like to know what is happening with my body: the day before yesterday evening, the old-new year opened a bottle of champagne. I drank one glass of wine and just a 5-10 minutes began to feel that I have laid the nose, throat swells up and gets the voice (the same happened with those who drank a champagne). . . eventually the whole night I was coughing heavily. . . feeling that I was "scalded whole trachea, or a very bad cold. . . but no colds no. For the second day of symptoms remain the same. Such a feeling that mucus accumulates in the throat, and constantly want to cough. In life, I very rarely drink and little (only on holidays, and even then not always). Allergies to alcohol there. What could it be and which doctor should I contact

Answer: to a medical toxicologist. If there is no – to the therapist, and if the symptoms increases, then call "03".

Like those due to alcohol?

September 5th, 2010

Question: Can you answer my question: Are there a man, a cat. drank beer, not being drunk, loss of memory, ie, a man riding the subway, and then suddenly turns out to be a completely different place after 6 hours and it is nothing to remember! Just remember, like riding the subway.

Answer: It is unlikely, but it can be. Do not know, maybe this person is Katie a problem in another direction, which affected his mental state at this time.

Brother alcoholic

September 4th, 2010

Question: Dear Vyacheslav Vladimirovich! My brother 55 years. He drinks, he had 30 years. He has no family, no children. Now that we have not become parents, I try to take care of it. You are in themselves, as he tore his health. Can not work. Oto everywhere he is being driven. Nevertheless binges finds the money and drank for a month. He was almost completely degraded. For 7.8 years he has a sore right shoulder. Gives him a lot of pain. Sometimes I see the color of his urine – I'm just a horror, like diluted blood. On the liver, I do not say anything. My question: Is it possible for my brother's group disability? I was not at that contain. He's a living person, I want to treat. Drugs are expensive. And I maintain it can not.

Answer: If alcoholism is practically impossible to get disability. But try, can be obtained.

HELP!

September 2nd, 2010

Question: Dear Doctor! Non-alcoholic beer may be alcohol or it can be to drink every day

Answer: It is impossible to give an unambiguous answer. Each question is purely individual and give specific advice for you personally, it is difficult, without the prior survey. If you take a healthy person who is not ill, alcoholics, and it has no dependencies, this beer is for him to be as, say, forfeits, which also has its own risk for stomach and intestine (chemical industry). But such a person will not drink alcohol-free beer every day, for him it may be only sporadic. If we talk about the reception of the drink a person suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction, then it does not contribute to the process of his recovery from addiction. Complex process and if you want to get the details, then sign up for a full-time consultation.

Insomnia

August 30th, 2010

Question: I have a problem: I can not sleep for a long time (before this problem was not able to sleep, "standing": o)), now and wake up at night, but I can not sleep. I have a child 9 months, breast-feed, and at night several times (6-7 times). Perhaps it is exhaustion. Maybe I can be what some herbs to drink or a sedative? Thank

Answer: If you are breastfeeding, then the maximum – warm milk at night, pogulka at night and the normalization of the regime of the day, with mandatory full relaxation time (at least 2 times a week, but regularly).

Feel the next day

August 27th, 2010

Question: I am 37 years old, a couple of years ago I began to notice that after a large amount of alcohol consumed the next day, after about 12 hours, I feel very bad, increases pressure, heart leaps. Several times had to make a drip. Now this happens and after a much smaller amount of alcohol. It seems that the body can not cope. I took a sip of her? Thank you.

Answer: You can take it differently. One could say that "Yes" took a sip, his tank you have already drunk:). And from a medical point of view, this indicates that you have begun to show withdrawal symptoms, suggesting the passage of alcohol into the second stage. We must stop until it's too late and still have to this their own forces, the reserves of the organism. Treatment is expensive, and money to Protect Children, they they pregodyatsya. The savings would not that be double, and probably desyaternaya: alcohol, the subsequent treatment of alcoholism, + all the nerves and health will save, + disabled, + health of the brain ++++++++++++. . .

The deterioration of alcohol tolerance

August 24th, 2010

Question: Doctor! 5 – 7 years ago, I drink alcohol about 1 time per month. There was a time when I did not drink more than a year in connection with the planned child. Currently drink alcohol 1 time in 2 -3 months. Now I am 30 years old, and the last few years I began to notice that alcohol intake has caused a sharp deterioration of the illness, although earlier the same dose did not cause such problems. At all times the usual dose ranges from a glass of wine to a maximum of 250 – 300 ml. vodka (cognac). Thus, the last time I drank 200 – 250 ml. vodka, with tightly eaten. A couple of hours ago I felt sick, having nausea, dizziness, slight loss of coordination. Vomiting brought little relief. I was able to sleep only after a long cold shower. The morning woke up rested. No symptoms were, moreover, that there was no appetite. Therefore, instead of breakfast, I drank a glass of water. A few minutes after that suddenly reappeared nausea. Then again, was vomiting, then it became easier. Then during the day nausea has become a pass, then reappear. Appeared bitter taste in the throat. Simtomy passed only by the following evening, and I was able to eat again. At present, any diagnosis I do not have, no other health complaints there. Not smoke. In principle, a complete rejection of alcohol would not cause problems for me, but in normal life still have a situation where the refuse is not simply accepted. In this regard, I developed the following questions: What can be related deterioration tolerance of alcohol? I have a hangover or a manifestation of some other diseases, such as liver disease? How to eliminate nausea field intake of alcohol? Dangerous Does a glass of wine for health

Answer: Before you were younger, healthier, and you have not been formed alcohol dependence. Now, alcohol dependence was formed, as they say you are describing symptoms (withdrawal alcohol syndrome). Liver, naturally suffers, but the first under the "shock" hits the brain. Alcohol dries neurons and they stop their biological function. They are becoming less and less.