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Alcohol Poisoning Medical Negligence Claim
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Alcohol Poisoning can be a deadly consequence of drinking large amounts of alcohol over a short period of time. Alcohol can affect the heart rate and breathing and your gag reflex can become impaired. Coma is possible and a person can die from this condition. It can happen with binge drinking of ethyl alcohol, up to five or more drinks at a time. This is the main cause of alcohol poisoning. There are other kinds of alcohol that can lead to alcohol poisoning, including certain household products that have alcohol in them.
Alcohol poisoning can occur at any age. Its symptoms are as follows: vomiting, seizures, confusion, a slow breathing rate, irregular choppy breathing, pale skin or cyanosis, coma, and low body temperature. Not all symptoms can be present at the same time. If there is coma, however, the risk of dying is high.
Alcohol poisoning comes in several varieties. Not just ethyl alcohol or ethanol can cause alcohol poisoning. In fact, you can have alcohol poisoning due to isopropyl alcohol, found in lotions, rubbing alcohol, some cleaning products and other products, or you can have alcohol poisoning due to methanol, a type of alcohol found in paints, solvents and antifreeze products. Alcohol poisoning can be accidental or intentional. Even though it can come from drinking household products, it is mostly a function of drinking too many alcoholic beverages.
What constitutes "too much alcohol" depends on your size and on how much alcohol you normally drink. If you drink on an empty stomach, almost 20 percent of the alcohol you consume immediately gets absorbed and goes to the brain in under a single minute.
Alcohol is mostly processed in the liver and it takes about an hour to process or metabolize a single drink, which is about 12 ounces of beer, about 4 ounces of wine or about 1.5 ounces of an 80 proof distilled liquor. Mixed drinks often contain greater than a serving of alcohol and take longer for the liver to metabolize. Drinking more than one drink per hour has the potential to overwhelm the liver. This means that binge drinking-drinking more than five drinks at a time really overwhelms the liver and puts one at high risk of alcohol poisoning. You can easily take in a lethal dose of alcohol before you finally go into a coma or pass out and eventually die.
So what does alcohol do? It depresses the nerves that are responsible for your heart rate, breathing and your gag reflex. You can easily choke on bodily fluids and you can develop a low body temperature that leads to cardiac arrest. You can get seizures from a low blood sugar.
Your risk of alcohol poisoning depends on a number of factors. Teens and college students are at greater risk of binge drinking and resultant alcohol poisoning. People between the ages of 45 and 54 are at the greatest risk of alcohol poisoning. Many of these people are alcoholics.
Men and boys have a greater risk of developing alcohol poisoning. Girls have increasingly begun closing the gap, however. More women are binge drinking than ever before. The smaller you are, the more likely you are to absorb too much alcohol and be susceptible to getting alcohol poisoning. If you are in poor health, you are more likely to develop alcohol poisoning. If you have food in your stomach, you are mildly protected from alcohol poisoning. If you take other drugs besides alcohol, you can develop fatal alcohol poisoning more likely than if you solely drink alcohol.
In order to diagnose alcohol poisoning, you need to have a doctor do blood tests or breath tests to check the level of alcohol in your system. Urine testing is also a possibility. The treatment of alcohol poisoning includes monitoring the patient's vital signs, using oxygen therapy or an ET tube to breathe for the patient and to protect the airway from vomiting, and IV fluids to prevent dehydration that happens when you drink too much alcohol. Sometimes vitamins are needed. If a non-ethanol ingestion is a possibility, you need to consider kidney dialysis, which flushes out the toxic agents from the body.