Problems with alcohol happen at any age. Have you heard the story of his grandfather, who all his life fond of a drink? He liked to drink like many others, but his long life of booze gradually increased each year, and relatives did not notice.
Still there are stories about a grandmother who never drank, and then buried her husband and started a wine glasses before going to bed. Because I could not sleep from worrying. Grandmother lived alone, and no one knew now without a pair of glasses on the day it is becoming bad.
The problem is that older people have even sober as sores that sometimes resemble drunk.
Alcohol differently affects the elderly. Even the usual dose with age can be high. Grandpa takes his usual glass of, but after it begins to kink, hit by a car and breaks a leg.
What does alcohol with elderly
- There are new types of cancer, liver damage, immune problems, and with the head;
- Compounded osteoporosis, diabetes, increased blood pressure and gastric ulcers appear;
- Alcohol dulls the pain of a heart attack, and it can not see;
- Lethargy and poor memory that blamed on alcohol, may actually be symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
medicine
Everyone knows that there are drugs that are not compatible with alcohol. That's only with age, people are taking more drugs, and the chances of poisoning are constantly growing.
The most popular and dangerous combination of alcohol with medications:
- With aspirin provokes bleeding from the stomach and intestines;
- With drugs from allergies disables the head;
- In combination with paracetamol can severely damage the liver;
- In combination with certain antidepressants or sleeping pills can kill.
Permitted levels of alcohol is constantly decreasing. Not everyone who uses a daily basis, it is considered an alcoholic, and not every alcoholic consume daily. If an elderly person in a state of intoxication somehow hurt themselves or others, the alcohol need to tie.
