Alcohol effects
There are various ways that alcohol can affect our health and our social skills; After one or two drinks you often feel more relaxed and more chatty as the alcohol reaches the brain and affects your cognitive abilities.
Alcohol misuse causes your heart rate to quicken and you may experience a warm glow. This is caused by alcohol making the smaller blood vessels in the skin expand, allowing blood to flow nearer to the surface and lowers blood pressure.
Alcohol Effects -how can alcohol affect your health?
The results of drinking large amounts of alcohol can be dire. Alcohol misuse health problems include anxiety, impaired judgment leading to accidents and injuries, loss of consciousness, slowed breathing and heartbeat, suffocation through choking on your own vomit and potentially fatal alcohol poisoning. There are also many mental effects, making you feel guilt or anger for no apparant reason and even making you paranoid. You slurr your words, often don’t recognise your surroundings and drinking too much alcohol can result in memory loss.
Drinking heavily also increases your calorie intake, resulting in it being partly responsible for adult obesity. In a medium-sized (175ml) glass of wine there are 125 calories and in a bottle there are over 500 calories. So thats about one quarter of your guidline daily calorie allowance!
Hangovers – Headaches could be the least of your worries
Alcohol can cause you to have a hangover the next morning, which often has unpleasant affects. You may get stomach ache, sometimes diarrhea, sickness and nausea, Drinking alcohol also has a dehydrating effect. Alcohol misuse can also make you feel upset, guilty
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If you drink over the guidline daily units regularly you are putting your health at risk. Large amounts of alcohol consumed increases blood pressure.
Alcohol is regularly correlated with mental health problems. It has been found that people enduring depression and anxiety were twice as likely to be problem drinkers.
Extreme levels of drinking can sometimes lead to ‘psychosis’, a harsh mental illness where they develop delusions of persecution. Consuming large amounts of alcohol can lead to seclusion and unhappiness.
