Drink to keep warm? It's easy to die if you get drunk and lose your temperature.

As the front approaches, the temperature is getting colder. Many people will drink a little wine to keep warm, but the doctor warned that drinking to keep warm is not correct, but it will make the body colder. Once the temperature is lost, it will be life-threatening! A few days ago 1 64-year-old man was drunk on the roadside and was rushed to the emergency department. He almost died when the temperature was only 2 1 degree. I suggest you put on more clothes and eat more calories to keep warm, which is the best policy.

The doctor pointed out that the concept of drinking to keep warm is all wet, but it is easy to cause the loss of heat energy from the body center to the limbs, resulting in temperature loss. Liu Wensheng, the attending physician of Department of Nephrology, Zhongxing Hospital, North United Hospital, said that the body temperature was below 35 degrees. For example, when Mr. Zeng, 64, went to the hospital for emergency treatment, his body temperature was only 2 1 degree Celsius, and he suffered from severe arrhythmia, rhabdomyolysis, acute renal failure, pneumonia, urinary tract infection and so on. Only after the rescue did he save his life.

For those who think that they can keep warm by drinking, Dr. Liu Wensheng explained that being careful will do the opposite. Because when drinking alcohol, alcohol will dilate blood vessels, guide the warmer blood flow inside the body to the periphery of the body, and accelerate blood circulation, so you will feel hot.

But in fact, due to the expansion of blood vessels, the heat in the center of the body (such as the heart and brain) is more lost to the surrounding limbs and body surfaces, which in turn reduces the temperature in the center of the body, makes it easier to lose the temperature, and reduces the shivering response of the body to the cold.

Dr Liu Wensheng pointed out that patients with hypothermia usually suffer from a variety of chronic diseases, such as hypoglycemia, hypothyroidism or adrenocortical hypofunction in diabetic patients. Alcohol addicts also have many complications when their body temperature is low, among which infection is the most important, which increases the difficulty of clinical treatment.

Compared with clinical cases, medical care should be given first, and when the patient's condition is stable, food hygiene education should be carried out with his family members, emphasizing the importance of abstinence, fundamentally treating patients' chronic diseases (pancreatitis and diabetes) and reducing the harm of mild alcohol.