Everyone knows that excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages can lead a person to alcohol poisoning. This disease has several stages, the severity of which depends on the concentration of alcohol in the blood.
So, if it is more than 0.3%, then this corresponds to a severe form that can lead a person into a coma.
On this basis, it becomes evident that alcohol poisoning can threaten human life, and therefore urgent measures to eliminate toxicity are a must.
Alcohol poisoning - symptoms
- If a person drinks a small amount of alcohol, then poisoning can be accompanied only by a hangover syndrome in the morning, in which headache, general weakness and thirst is aggravated.
- With alcohol poisoning of moderate and severe severity, vomiting occurs - a natural reaction of the body to toxic substances. At the same time, the person's consciousness is clouded, he can lose an adequate assessment of the situation. If treatment measures are not taken, a more dangerous symptom may be added to the difficulty of breathing and movements - paralysis of the respiratory center leading to death.
If the case of poisoning corresponds to a severe stage, then there is an urgent need for emergency medical care. The average and mild degree of poisoning can be cured at home using folk and pharmacy products.
First aid for alcohol poisoning
First of all, you need to do everything possible to ensure that the stomach is cleared of alcohol (so that it does not continue to be absorbed into the blood). For this, the patient is given a large amount of water to drink and causes vomiting, pushing two fingers against the root of the tongue. If the victim does not control himself, then he is turned on his side: it is necessary that he does not choke with vomit.
Then the victim is given a drink of a large amount of water and strong black tea: this tool will quickly lead him into feelings.
The next stage of treatment is the reception of sorbents. With severe poisoning, one must take at least 20 tablets of activated charcoal. Also, when poisoning with alcohol is effective Enterosgel is a soft mass of a transparent color, which is washed down with a lot of water. It is enough to take no more than 5 tablespoons. for the first time, and then every 2 hours for 1 tbsp. l. This will reduce the symptoms of toxicity.
If a person is unconscious, then before the arrival of an ambulance you need to watch, so that his tongue does not fuse.
If the patient's breathing is difficult, he needs to inject caffeine injections subcutaneously. When breathing is stopped, the patient is given artificial respiration.
In the help of the reanimatologist, there is a need for a coma, when the skin becomes bluish, becomes cold and sticky, and the breathing is intermittent.
Alcohol Substance Abuse: First Aid
Acute alcohol poisoning is often caused by alcohol surrogates - substances that are not intended for consumption. As a rule, they are contained in fakes, so before drinking a drink it is important to make sure that it was made by an official manufacturer. Also, a person can drink by careless means of household chemicals and cosmetic products (lotions, colognes, perfumes) that contain surrogates of alcohol.
One group of these products contains ethyl alcohol, and their administration is dangerous only because of additives.
In case of poisoning with surrogates of alcohol, you should seek emergency help and induce vomiting. If medical assistance is not possible, then the patient every 30 hours give a drink of 30 ml of 30% ethyl alcohol.
After poisoning for 2 days, the patient needs to do a gastric lavage, since methanol is released through the mucosa of this organ.
At loss of consciousness the patient sharply requires the qualified help: in this case efficiency of treatment in house conditions is minimum.