2007-02-25 04:31:33 · 6 answers · asked by jokinen 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
They rot. You die.
2007-02-25 04:33:51 · answer #1 · answered by Dorothy and Toto 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally it's your liver that is affected, since that's where alcohol is metabolized. You can get alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and fatty liver, or acute hepatic failure. All of these are dangerous, since you need your liver to live.
Alcohol can also affect other parts of your GI (gastrointestinal system) by tearing up your stomach or giving you alcoholic pancreatitis (the pancreatitis can be fatal). There are two types of pancreatitis: acute or sudden, which can come from one really bad night of drinking, or chronic, which is from drinking too much all the time.
The kidneys' job is to control how much you pee and eliminate body toxins (not alcohol toxins--the liver does that) from your blood. Your body naturally makes a hormone called antidiuretic hormone, which keeps you from peeing off too much of the water needed in your body. Alcohol keeps you from producing this antidiuretic hormone (ADH), which means your kidneys let you pee off too much water, and you get dehydrated. Dehydration can also kill you.
2007-02-25 12:47:20 · answer #2 · answered by sarcastro1976 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can suffer from acute kidney failure, and you can develop chronic liver disease and die from cirrhosis.
2007-02-25 12:36:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your kidneys weaken and can cause kidney failure. Please be responsible when drinking. Yahoo answers value members like you.
2007-02-25 12:40:17 · answer #4 · answered by I'M GONNA GO PLACES 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You pee alot....alcohol damages LIVER not kidneys
2007-02-25 12:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by little Glo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they will eventually fail
2007-02-25 12:34:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋