Alcohol consumption is so normalized in societies that it is rarely noticed that its frequent use can become a serious cultural and public health problem.
MADRID, Nov. 15 (EUROPA PRESS).- The alcohol It is part of the daily lives of many people, without them being aware of the damage what is this substancewhich can become addictivecan cause your health.
As evidenced by the latest “Monograph on alcohol” of the Ministry of Healthalcohol is one of the main risk factors for burden of disease in Spaincan cause dependencein addition to contributing to the development of multiple health problems and injuriesincluding cardiovascular diseases, liverworts, neuropsychiatricand communicable diseases, among others.
But it doesn’t stop there because it also says that there is “solid evidence” of the relationship that can exist between alcohol and certain
types of cancer, “implying that any level of consumption increases the risk of cancer.” “In addition, the impact of its consumption goes beyond the health of the person who does it, since it can also cause harm to third parties such as injuries due to traffic, violence, or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD),” added this work led by the ministerial portfolio of Mónica García.
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“The population must reflect on the role that alcohol plays in their lives. Reducing or eliminating alcohol is a decision that must be made
adopt now for our health and for our coexistence,” he confessed in an interview with Europa Press Salud Infosalus the vice president of
Nursing of the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES), Carmen Casal.
He has been working in Emergencies for 29 years and recognizes that there is not a day that goes by in which he does not have a case related to drug use.
alcohol. “Alcohol cases are more frequent than any other poisoning, than falls, or traffic accidents. It is the
responsible for a huge number of warnings that, directly or indirectly, are caused by alcohol consumption,” this nurse stressed.
Furthermore, he indicated that the most worrying cases are those of alcohol coma, where there is a brutal decrease in consciousness in the person and
who may have a problem with airway obstruction, with the added problem of vomiting even when unconscious and face up. “The
person can choke on their own vomit and it can be a life-threatening emergency,” he added.
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But he also warned that, on many occasions, people who arrive with severe alcohol poisoning usually have
family and social conflicts, which also require attention. “The problem is that people are not aware that
He suffers from alcoholism and it is important because when we ask the patient he states that he consumes alcohol. It is thought that normal is
have a coffee and a carajillo for breakfast, a couple of beers with vermouth, at lunchtime a bottle of wine, and at night another glass of wine,” said Casal.
What is normal alcohol consumption
Thus, he warned that there are many studies that say that a glass of wine is good for health, but he warned that this “depends on
who” and whether that person has any pathology or not. “The normal thing is a zero alcohol level, but alcohol consumption is so ingrained in our society that it is often very difficult,” he added.
We asked her if drinking a beer daily means that we suffer from alcoholism, and this SEMES nurse points out that we will be addicted to alcohol when one of those days, despite your habit, you cannot drink the beer and then this generates anxiety, irritability, restlessness, etc.
“A person is addicted to alcohol when it is the center of his life; when alcohol revolves around his social relationships, his
family relationships, his way of being, and his work. If a person consumes a beer every day and if he could not drink it that day and did not
Nothing happens, it doesn’t cause anxiety or lack of control, he doesn’t have an addiction to that beer; Now, if you are thinking and nervous all the time with
anxiety, wanting to drink that beer, that is already an addiction,” highlighted the SEMES spokesperson.
There are still many cases of young people
Finally, we discussed with this emergency nurse the case of the young people, who she assured that “they are always in the emergency room” because
severe alcohol poisoning, despite the fact that they constitute a group that is very vulnerable to excessive alcohol consumption. He says that cases mainly occur on specific dates, weekends and holidays, and that on Halloween, for example, he had to attend to an unconscious 13-year-old minor in the street, who could have been run over, carried out some type of attack, a totally vulnerable person who is still a minor.
“Alcohol for emergency services and health personnel represents a fairly significant burden due to the number of cases that
we attend and for the time, energy, and emotional tension that these situations can cause. We see that many cases are avoidable and that they are causing the use of resources that could be used for other vital emergencies, for example; apart from the fact that alcohol poisoning is also usually accompanied by risk for us, with violence or aggressiveness on the part of the patients,” he added.
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Carmen Casal lamented that currently alcohol is a “socially accepted and even trivialized drug,” and is so immersed in our
society. “With Christmas approaching, how can we not toast with champagne? For example,” he asked himself.
Finally, he emphasized that in Spain health education and annual advertising campaigns are needed to demystify consumption.
of alcohol. At the same time, it sends a message to the institutions to help them in the creation of the emergency nursing specialty and
emergencies. “We deserve standard and homogeneous training throughout the national territory, and recognition to guarantee better care for citizens,” he added.