Drinking alcohol is more harmful to human body, such as liver damage, digestive bleeding, infertility, cancer and many other diseases.
1. Liver damage: Long-term drinking of large quantities of alcohol can damage the liver, easily causing chronic alcoholism and alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, and if the damage continues, it can lead to liver cancer.
2. Gastrointestinal bleeding: long-term alcohol consumption will stimulate damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa, resulting in erosive gastritis and ulcers, if peptic ulcer patients, it is very easy to induce gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
3. Infertility: regular consumption of alcohol by men will affect the quality of sperm and reduce reproductive function. Long-term heavy drinking by women will lead to endocrine disorders, reduce egg quality and increase the risk of infertility. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy will lead to fetal deformities and increase the risk of preterm labor and stillbirth.
4. Cancer: Many kinds of cancers in human body have a clear relationship with alcohol, and the more you drink, the greater the risk of cancer. For example, most patients with oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer, colorectal cancer, etc. have the habit of drinking a lot of alcohol for a long time.
5. Other diseases: long-term heavy drinking may induce acute pancreatitis, gastritis, gastric ulcer, primary hypertension and diabetes mellitus, etc. It can also increase the risk of serious diseases, such as vascular sclerosis, cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction and so on, and drinking alcohol after eating a large amount of seafood will induce acute gout attacks.
Due to the many hazards of alcohol, usually drink alcohol must be limited, if there has been liver function damage and gastrointestinal diseases patients need to strictly abstain from alcohol, to avoid the harm of alcohol.