Simply drunk

Introduction Simple drunkenness, also known as general drunkenness, is an acute poisoning caused by a large amount of drinking. The severity of clinical symptoms is related to the patient's blood alcohol content and alcohol metabolism rate.

Cause

It is a small amount of drinking that causes severe mental disorders. It mainly occurs in people who are very low in tolerance to alcohol. They often have a sudden or paralyzed state, extreme excitement, illusion hallucinations and victimized delusions, aggressive behaviors, nervous fears, and seizures after a small amount of alcohol consumption. The general episode lasts for several hours, or for a whole day, often ends with a deep sleep, and after waking up, it cannot be recalled.

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In the early days of drunkenness, the self-control ability of drunken people decreased, speech increased, content exaggerated, emotional excitement, and joy that was not harmonious with the environment, but the emotional cranial instability, irritability and venting characteristics, movements are also When drunkenness increases, behavior becomes frivolous, often provocative, and sometimes reckless.

Clinically, some drunken people are also depressed, speechless, sorrowful, or sleepy. At the same time, most drunken people have unclear articulation, ataxia, gait instability, accompanied by increased heart rate, decreased blood pressure, facial and body flushing, and sometimes nausea or vomiting. Or if the drunkenness progresses further, there will be disturbances of consciousness, such as decreased clarity of consciousness and/or narrow range of consciousness, and even drowsiness, sleepiness, and even coma.

In addition to severe cases, it can generally recover naturally without any symptoms.

Differential diagnosis

Attention to the identification of complex drunkenness: complex drunkenness is usually brain damage, such as head injury, encephalitis, epilepsy, etc., or severe brain dysfunction, mental retardation, personality changes, etc., the tolerance to alcohol is greatly reduced, Severe alcoholism due to heavy drinking. The complexity lies in the fact that in addition to the general drunkenness, the disturbance of consciousness is obvious, which is characterized by excitement, violent behavior, and even murder and destruction. The duration is often only a few hours. Afterwards, the episode has completely lost memory, or only sporadic memory.

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