What I mean is, if I go the pub, and later feel dehydrated, I have to drink lots of water to feel better. Where as my dad just has a coffee.
Why doesnt the body just fail completely, if someone just drinks beer all day, every day? Does it just do the best it can, and take what hydration it can get from the liquor?
It would seem to take years of heavy drinking to really kill a person.
2006-10-11 01:39:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
The body obtains water from food as well. There is a certain amount of water in alcoholic beverages. Albeit, alcholic beverages tend to dehydrate the body. Granted, the body being in close to chronic state of dehydration doesn't help the liver any---but what kills the liver (or why people die from heavy alcohol abuse) is that every time the liver cleans the blood, it does some form of damage to it (even the most miniscule amount)..it is a filter. Well, over time, with heavy drinking--the liver is only good for a limited number of bottles of booze.
2006-10-11 01:45:47 · answer #1 · answered by What, what, what?? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
alcohol affects people differently..I know one guy drank constanly and died with a liver problem and jaundice at 42 and left 3 young kids with zero, just the empties. I also know another guy died an alcoholic at 72 with heart attack, not alcohol. I do know when I drink I feel awful for days ...run down and weak. I was told to drink lots water prior to drinking on the town, and I still feel like crap so I guess all people are different. I only know that booze will and usually does take it's toll somewhere along the line and no matter whether you live to 25 or 105 you have lost something somewhere with the alcohol in you like this. I am sure that even the ones who survive will admit that they have lost out somewhere and although they never admit it, they are hiding behind the bottle and they know they are drunks too. It is an addiction and only the one with it can drop it and get away from it, you or I can't change them and should never try. Just leave them to their little world and leave them too and maybe they will come around as they see they have nobody and nothing to lean on with the feeble excuse to drink to hide their sorrows. They will always drink as long as you or someone is there to pick up the pieces for them. and YES it will kill them eventually.
2006-10-11 08:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by colinhughes333 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol can take a toll on the body. Dehydration, mentally and physically not able to accomplish tasks, and most of all people who are alcoholics cannot live without Alcohol. They are body becomes accostumed to drinking all the time. Eventually the liver will start to not function, kidneys etc. Many organs start to fail. You can get stomach cancer from drinking but it really cake take years and years for someone to actually die from heavy drinking. You dont die from being an alcoholic but, the side effects the alcohol has on your body. The liver starts to deteriorate and eventuallly affects other parts and organs of your body, leading to death.
2006-10-11 08:43:57 · answer #3 · answered by Beautiful Me! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drinking heavily as we already know, kills you slowly. It is made slow by the fact that alchohol has a calorific value and therefore helps to keep said alchoholic from wasting away too quickley as well as suffering from liver probs and a total breakdown of the essential organs. There is an amount of water in alchohol too but the dehydration is what contributes to the failing organs.
2006-10-11 08:53:32 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically the kidneys learn to cope with the alcohol in the bloodstream. The human body can adapt to most things over time. I used to drink around 200-400 units of alcohol per week every week and I am alive still (and since I stopped drinking last year in reasonably decent health).
2006-10-11 08:50:05 · answer #5 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alcoholism is hard on the body. Chronic dehydration does cause a lot of health problems, but usually it is the damage done to the liver that causes death. Hope your dad gets the help he needs before this happens.
2006-10-11 08:44:39 · answer #6 · answered by andrea r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heavy boozing will slowly kill you by destroying your internal organs. It also reduces your ability to perform sexually and your family and worklife will get progressively worse and worse.
Foods contain water but usually not enough and the curries after a drinking section will help bring on diabetes.
Boozing is a fools game but ITS A DISEASE that needs help. Don't abandon a friend or relative - they need your help because strangers won't give it !!!
2006-10-11 08:51:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
its does take years of heavy drinkin to kill a person
the body becomes dependent on the alcohol, so the need to drink more and more to feel the buzz
2006-10-11 08:43:49 · answer #8 · answered by sky l 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on the tolerance of each drinker. An alcoholic survives
by stopping booze altogether or by taking another swig. The first
alternative is recommendable.
2006-10-11 08:53:05 · answer #9 · answered by Ricky 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does not take long for alcohol to kill, it can kill you after only one night of binge drinking, it is called alcohol poisoning
2006-10-11 08:52:19 · answer #10 · answered by GLYN D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋