Alcoholic beverages became obligatory attribute in life of people long ago. It is difficult to imagine a wedding, a party, a commemoration or just solemn dinner without alcohol. The main property of alcohol – ability to lighten the mood and to eliminate stresses. Under the influence of alcoholic drinks the importance of negative events, fears and the notions of compulsion considerably decreases. Distinguish four stages of alcoholic intoxication, in each of which the person behaves differently.
Easy degree of intoxication
At easy degree of intoxication the blood alcohol content is no more than 2%. Externally the person behaves absolutely adequately, but already begins to feel slight euphoria. On a body pleasant heat spreads, muscles relax, and the person begins to feel comfortable. The mood increases – the world around seems in iridescent tones, events of antecedents are exposed to reconsideration and lose the tragedy or the importance. The surrounding situation begins to dispose to communication, the constraint and shyness disappears.
The friendly atmosphere reigns in the company which is in easy degree of alcoholic intoxication, loud laughter is heard, there is an aspiration to share the intimate thoughts. Easy degree of intoxication passes pretty fast.
Average degree of alcoholic intoxication
At average degree of intoxication the alcohol content in a shelter is about 2-3%. In this state the mood of the person begins to fluctuate strongly. The love and oaths in eternal friendship can be replaced by a stock phrase: "Do you respect me?". With intoxication increase the behavior of the person begins to have absolutely unpredictable character, sense of danger becomes dull. The person who is in average degree of intoxication the danger not only to itself, but also to surrounding people can constitute. Got drunk cannot normally concentrate on any one thought, his consciousness is obscured. The person already begins to control poorly the movements, walking becomes uneven, there is a readiness to make illogical, sometimes even mad acts.
Strong stage of intoxication
At a strong stage of intoxication the amount of alcohol in blood exceeds 3%. The speech of the person becomes muffled, he as if is at a loss in selection of proper words. Hearing decreases, the handwriting becomes illegible. Strongly drunk it is extremely difficult to estimate a surrounding situation adequately. At further intoxication the former cheerfulness and excitement are oppressed. The person begins something to mutter muffledly. There is a full braking not only a brain, but also the subcrustal centers. The person can fall asleep anywhere: on the street, in the stairwell, under a table. He is not disturbed any more by obvious inconveniences and ambient temperature.
Heavy degree of intoxication
At heavy degree of intoxication rough neurologic frustration begin to be shown. Alcoholic intoxication can be followed not only a deep sleep, but also breath violations, even by an alcoholic coma. The person can die of cardiac arrest and breath, of suffocation own emetic masses, of strong overcooling, of accidents on transport and in life. At severe alcoholic intoxication the intervention of experts and delivery of the victim to a toxicological hospital department is required. Can lead the use of 300-400 g of pure alcohol to a lethal outcome. A lethal dose of alcohol for the person 8 g of ethyl alcohol on 1 kg of weight are considered. It turns out that the person with the body weight of 90 kg can die of 720 g of pure alcohol. However can lead to alcoholic intoxication also absolutely small amount of the drunk alcohol, especially if it is about children or about people with poor health.