Shortness of breath after drinking may be due to sympathetic over-excitement, alcohol allergy or their own coronary heart disease and other reasons, you can follow the doctor’s instructions for general treatment, medication and so on.
1. Sympathetic over-excitement: Drinking alcohol will make the human body constantly intake of ethanol, and ethanol will lead to the human body’s sympathetic over-excitement, resulting in nerve dysfunction, thus causing chest tightness and shortness of breath after drinking alcohol, it is recommended that you drink more water to accelerate the excretion of alcohol, and should avoid drinking alcohol or quit drinking, can alleviate the symptoms.
2. Alcohol allergy: if the people who are allergic to alcohol, after drinking alcohol will lead to spasm of the human respiratory tract, and will affect the heart function, thus causing chest tightness and shortness of breath phenomenon, should follow the doctor’s instructions to orally anti-allergy drugs such as cetirizine tablets or loratadine tablets, such as the emergence of respiratory symptoms, should promptly go to the hospital through the intramuscular injection of adrenaline for first aid.
3. Coronary heart disease: If the patient himself suffers from coronary heart disease, after drinking alcohol will lead to the patient’s myocardial oxygen consumption increases, so that the phenomenon of hypoxia triggered by the phenomenon of chest tightness and shortness of breath, should follow the doctor’s instructions orally nitroglycerin and other drugs, can expand the arterial vascularization, so as to alleviate the symptoms.
After drinking alcohol chest tightness shortness of breath may also be other causes, should be checked as soon as possible to the hospital to clarify the cause of the week to comply with the doctor’s instructions for treatment.