Alcohol and health. An alcoholism

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At an alcoholism heart increases in sizes, pulse becomes frequent, hypostases are marked a short wind in a rest condition.

Alcohol considerably raises coagulability of blood owing to what in coronary arteries the blood clot can be formed. If the blood clot completely corks their gleam, there is a myocardium heart attack, that is  destruction of the whole site of a cardiac muscle. The chronic alcoholic intoxication promotes occurrence of hypertensive illness which meets among the persons who are taking alcoholic drinks, in 3-4 times more often, than among observing a sober way of life.

At the persons taking alcoholic drinks, it is quite often observed endarteriit - the heavy disease amazing more often arteries of feet and conducting to a gangrene (omertveniju).

Alcohol causes pathological processes in veins. Vessels of feet are in most cases amazed. At the persons abusing alcohol, as a rule, a thrombophlebitis priobrataet a chronic current with frequent aggravations.

Lungs are especially vulnerable at a chronic alcoholism. Alcohol partially in not changed kind exhausts through lungs, amazing thus a trachea, bronchial tubes, alveoluses, and promotes occurrence of sharp respiratory virus diseases, a bronchitis, a pneumonia. If sick of an alcoholism also smoke, alcohol action amplifies not less harmful action of nicotine.

Still doctors of pre-revolutionary Russia considered, that the alcoholism is ' a consumption bed '. Really, the patients, suffering, as a rule, badly eat an alcoholism. In this connection they have an albuminous insufficiency, deficiency of vitamins and microcells. Protective forces of an organism decrease, immunity weakens. The weakened organism is not capable to struggle with mikobakterijami a tuberculosis, and they find in it favourable circumstances for reproduction. Threat to catch a tuberculosis at sick of an alcoholism increases also because they do not observe rules of personal hygiene. Late address to the doctor for the specialised help, do not maintain the put terms of hospitalisation, ahead of schedule leave hospitals and sanatoria owing to what the tuberculosis of lungs at them progresses and passes in the heavy form.

Glands of internal secretion, especially adrenal glands and sexual glands are exposed to Considerable changes. Even unitary binge affects a condition of sexual glands, in particular on the chromosomal device. Conception in an intoxication condition can cause a birth of children, suffering weak-mindedness, an epilepsy, uglinesses.

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