Everyday TOXIC!

Whenever I hear people saying, "TOOOOOOOOOOXIC", maybe pointing to their studies, work, and even to their moms, I simply think of the word 'poison' or ‘deadly matter’.

Is it true that our assignments, tasks at work and the scolding of our mothers DEADLY? Well, there is a deadlier substance I can think of: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.

One Saturday evening, while everybody’s having fun at a birthday party, a man had collapsed. His co-drinkers said that he was just drunk and sleepy. But when we checked his body, he was not breathing. Others said that he had vomit so much and cannot speak well. When we brought him to the hospital, the doctor said that the man is at the stage of coma.

Alcohol intoxication – that is the main problem of the story and it is scarier than everybody thinks. Beers, wines and liquors have the same composition of Ethyl Alcohol. The by-products of the breakdown of ethanol are commonly seen in body tissues. And so, intoxication is not seen when the ingestion of ethanol is small or moderate enough.

Actually, the alcoholic tolerance varies from person to person. When one is seen with the symptoms such as vomiting, cannot speak clearly, cannot normally breath, the nails are getting blue and confusion, must already stop or else a more severe situation will happen: DEATH.

As I have said before, the by-products are normally found in the body. However, the synthesis of ethanol is too slow. If the body had ingest more than what it needs, it will go out to the bloodstream and may lead to many side effects. Approximately, the synthesis of an ounce of ethanol takes 90 minutes.

Ethyl alcohol is considered as one of the most effective CNS depressants. Because of this, as one person ingests more ethanol, he/she becomes sleepy and later on, unconscious. The most dangerous part is when the breathing is low and eventually stops because the respiratory system will become depressed. And this can lead to death. Coma resulted from a plug in the lungs. When a drunken person vomits, he/she tries stop and backflow it, bringing it through the lungs which can cause of difficulty of breathing or ‘drowning’. The effects of ethyl alcohol varies depending on its amount of ingestion.

So whenever your friends plan to ‘shot’, make sure that all of you know how to drink moderately. It is because beers are more toxic than your studies, work and your mom!

REFERENCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol#Pharmacology
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/alcohol_intoxication/article_em.htm

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