The use of quality alcoholic drinks in moderate doses improves mood and helps to relax. But on noisy parties or holidays it is easy to lose control, and ordinary intoxication can go into heavy alcohol poisoning - what to do at home with his symptoms should absolutely everyone know, because no one is immune from such situations. In addition, you should always have in the medicine cabinet a minimum set of drugs that help with intoxication.
First aid for alcohol poisoning at home
Activities for emergency assistance vary depending on whether the victim is conscious or not.
In the first case, the following is required:
- Clear the stomach. Induce vomiting, giving the patient to drink at least 2 glasses of water. If this does not work, press your fingers on the root of the tongue several times. If both methods are ineffective, you can add up to 5 drops of ammonia in the water, 4-5 hours of salt spoons or a little potassium permanganate (manganese).
- Normalize your breathing. It is important to ensure the flow of fresh air into the room or to bring a person to the street. It is also necessary to release the victim from tight clothing - remove the scarf, unbutton the buttons on the shirt, loosen the strap.
- Restore the thermoregulation. To normalize the temperature and adaptability of the organism to its changes, it is allowed to give the patient a warm and strong green tea with sugar. In this situation, you can not drink coffee, take a cold or hot shower.
If a person does not come to his senses, but his breathing and heartbeat are in order, one should try to bring the victim to consciousness and carry out the above measures. For example, you can bring a bottle with ammonia to your nostrils, rub your ears, and pat your cheeks.
In the absence of effect from the measures taken, it is necessary to put the patient horizontally, and head to turn on his side so that the person does not choke with vomit during the involuntary purification of the stomach. It is important to stay close until the victim regains consciousness, follows his breathing, regularly checks the pulse.
How to treat alcohol poisoning at home?
After successful gastric lavage, symptomatic therapy is necessary. Its purpose is to remove toxic compounds from the body and purify the blood. It is also required to relieve the general condition of a person, to stop a headache, thirst, aches in joints and other signs of hangover syndrome.
How to cure alcoholic poisoning of mild and moderate degree in the home:
- Speed up the elimination of toxins. Give the victim any enterosorbent - Silicagel, activated carbon, Enterosgel, Polysorb, Atoxil, Polypefan.
- Get rid of unpleasant symptoms. Any non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, except paracetamol, will do. To reduce the viscosity of the blood should take Aspirin.
- To restore the activity of the liver, digestive system, improve the general condition of the body. A good remedy for alcohol poisoning for use at home is succinic acid. Also recommended are drugs like Alka-Seltzer, Antipohmelin, Zorex, Alka-Prim, Bison.
During treatment it is necessary to observe a semi-fasting regime, to sleep, to drink a lot of warm liquid with the exception of coffee.
How to remove strong alcoholic poisoning at home?
Intoxication with alcoholic beverages of a severe degree, in which the victim is unconscious, and breathing and heartbeat are violated, presupposes an immediate call of a medical team.
While specialists will get there, it is advisable to try to make artificial lung ventilation and indirect heart massage.