What are the disadvantages of vodka?

Vodka is a kind of wine. Vodka is the most flexible, adaptable and elastic wine. There is no harm in wine itself, the key depends on how individuals drink it.

Harm of drinking alcohol

Drinking directly stimulates and damages the digestive system, which can cause oral mucositis, pharyngitis, esophagitis and gastritis, especially having adverse effects on gastric mucosa. The higher the alcohol content, the more obvious the stimulation. Alcohol is fat-soluble, which can destroy the mucosal defense system, make the gastric mucosa vulnerable to gastric acid and bile, and then cause mucosal edema, erosion, and even bleeding and necrosis.

Chronic alcoholism is manifested in the nervous system as memory loss, disorientation, muscle tremor, hallucinations and so on.

Alcohol is closely related to liver disease. Alcoholic liver disease can be divided into alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic liver fibrosis and alcoholic cirrhosis. The latter is developed from the former, and one is more serious than the other. Foreign data show that alcoholic fatty liver can occur every day 1.50 g, and alcoholic cirrhosis can occur every year/kloc-0.

Alcohol can also damage the heart and lead to arrhythmia. Alcoholism can also cause peripheral blood vessels to dilate, blood pressure to drop, so that coronary artery blood supply is insufficient. Coupled with the emotional excitement of alcoholism, myocardial oxygen consumption increases, which is easy for people with coronary heart disease to promote angina pectoris or myocardial infarction.

Alcohol is closely related to the incidence of cancer. Its metabolite is acetaldehyde, which has been proved to be carcinogenic. Some patients with primary liver cancer are caused by heavy drinking. Liver cancer is called "the king of cancer", and the treatment effect is very poor. Excessive drinking can also cause oral cancer, throat cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer and so on.