Alcohol use has become a part of people's lives and it is already impossible to imagine holidays and fun without it. Everyone should know how much they can drink in order not to harm their health and not suffer from a hangover.
How to calculate the alcohol content of a hangover
As a tribute to tradition, people drink various alcoholic beverages at the table and while resting. But everyone wants to avoid a morning hangover, to preserve their health. With regular consumption of intoxicants, the risk of alcohol addiction increases. Anyone can find a relatively safe alcohol level for themselves.
There is a special formula with which you can find out the dose of a one-time drink, when it is guaranteed that you will be able to avoid hangover syndrome: 1, 5 ml of pure alcohol per 1 kg of body weight. Taking into account that vodka contains 40% alcohol, in terms of this type of alcohol, you can drink 3. 75ml per 1kg of weight at a time. If the drink is stretched on time for 4-5 hours, the alcohol dose can be increased by 25%.
It is essential to take into account age and gender. The older a person is, the harder it is for the body to cope with the effects of alcohol exposure. The allowable rate for women will be half that for men. The presence of various additives, colors or flavors also aggravates the alcohol syndrome, so the side effect of such drinks will be more severe than with pure vodka.
There are other conditions in which it is not possible to avoid a hangover, even if the drinking norm is respected:
- mix different alcoholic beverages;
- reception of cocktails from strong alcohol and carbonated drinks;
- drink after a night without sleep;
- smoking while drinking intoxicating;
- drinking alcohol on an empty stomach or with fatty foods;
- failure to observe a 20-25 minute break between toasts.
The best way to avoid a hangover is to drink in moderation.
How much alcohol can you drink per day without harm to the body
When consuming alcoholic beverages, a large burden falls on the liver due to the toxicity of ethanol. But the human brain is more sensitive to alcohol, in which the irreversible destruction of cells begins with the constant consumption of alcohol. The neural network is unable to recover until the next drink. If you don't know how much vodka you can drink and over what time frame, you can cause irreparable damage to your health.
Alcohol damages other organs of the human body, but they handle the load a little better than the brain and recover faster if the norm is observed and there is enough time between drinks.
The limit of the ability of a healthy person to process alcohol is 2. 4 ml of pure alcohol per 1 kg of mass per day, and in terms of vodka - 6 ml. After consuming such a speed, you should take an 8-day break so that the body can recover and return to normal.
How much alcohol can you drink without risking sleep
The emergence of alcohol addiction does not always depend on the volume of alcohol consumed. To a greater extent, the cause is hereditary predisposition and psychological factors. People who drink a lot when needed can also do without drinking for a long time. But drinking regularly can over time be addictive and addictive.
There is a term "critical dose": this is the maximum dose for a person who can drink without risking falling to alcoholism stage 2-3, when control over consciousness is lost and drunkenness begins with a severe hangover .
A person suspected of developing alcohol addiction should know approximately where he is. This is important to prevent disease progression and at least to be stable at this level.
These people should remember how much vodka they need to drink in order not to drop even lower and, showing willpower, adhere to their norm while still being able to control themselves. Increased alcohol volume can lead to unconsciousness and heavy drinking.
People who consume in moderation and balance in the first and second stages of alcoholism can drink 100-300 g of vodka 1-4 times a month. This will cause very little damage to the body and prevent it from slipping further into alcohol addiction, which can occur unnoticed by the drinker himself.
Those already suffering from alcohol addiction should completely stop drinking alcohol. Any dose, regardless of species and variety, increases the likelihood of relapse and adversely affects health.
The age of the drinker must be taken into consideration. Those under the age of 20 are more likely to sleep. Middle-aged men bear the consequences a little more easily.
Doses of different types of alcohol
Any volume of ethyl alcohol is dangerous to health. One must also be careful when consuming alcohol-based medicines and follow the rules for taking them. Don't ignore your gender (men are more resistant to the effects of ethanol) and forget about health problems and related diseases.
If there is no individual intolerance to certain types of alcohol, then first of all you should pay attention to the strength of the drink. With the same volume of alcohol, varieties of different ethyl content will have different effects on a person.
Drinks that contain colorings, flavors and various types of aromas are much more harmful than good cognac or natural wines. Taking into account the individual characteristics of the body, each person has their own alcohol content.
There is no exact figure indicating the amount of alcohol each person can drink, but the approximate rate is as follows:
- vodka or cognac - 75 ml;
- wine - 400 ml;
- beer - 500 ml.
It should not be allowed to mix different types of alcohol, in case of violation of these rules, the harmful effects of alcohol increase significantly. Women are advised to drink half the male dose. But even the slightest daily intake of intoxicants can lead to alcoholism if you drink regularly.
Who shouldn't drink alcohol
There are categories of people who are contraindicated to consume any amount of vodka per day:
- people with the 2-3rd stage of alcohol addiction;
- epileptics;
- those who have suffered a concussion or head injury;
- excitable, aggressive, confrontational personalities who lose control of themselves after drinking.
People with various diseases should abstain from alcohol and, in exceptional cases, drink only with the permission of a doctor.