Vomited blood 6 times in 3 hours! After a dinner, half of the man's body was bleeding... It's a high incidence recently! Doctors urgently remind →

Spring Festival is just around the corner

People are having annual meetings and dinners.

Don't ignore the risks of excessive drinking

recently

A patient in Hangzhou

Caused by excessive drinking

Gastrointestinal bleeding

The situation is critical and worrying

Mr. Gu, 35, was a heavy drinker. As the Spring Festival approached, he began to attend various parties frequently and drank almost every day. One night, he drank nearly a pound of liquor. The next morning, he suddenly vomited blood. He vomited blood six times in just three hours! His family rushed him to the emergency room of the hospital.

Seeing that Mr. Gu was pale, in pain, and vomiting blood , the emergency doctor immediately contacted the gastroenterology department for consultation. After communication, it was decided to perform tracheal intubation immediately to maintain a patent airway and prevent vomitus from being accidentally inhaled into the trachea and causing suffocation.

During the emergency endoscopic examination, the condition of Mr. Gu's esophagus was shocking: the esophageal veins were exposed and the esophageal mucosa was torn from the cardia to the middle of the esophagus. What was worse was that there happened to be a blood vessel at the tearing site, and blood was constantly gushing out of the ruptured blood vessel.

The doctor used titanium clips to stop the bleeding accurately under the endoscope. After a tense operation, the raging bleeding was finally stopped. According to preliminary estimates, Mr. Gu's bleeding volume was as high as 1000-2000 ml, nearly half of the total blood volume of an adult. If he had not been treated in time, the consequences would be disastrous!

At present, Mr. Gu is out of danger.

Drinking too much may be fatal. Dr. Sun Dongjie from the Digestive Endoscopy Center of the 900th Hospital of the Joint Logistics Support Force said that drinking too much can easily lead to severe vomiting. Due to the sharp increase in abdominal pressure, it is not uncommon for patients to suffer from cardia tearing and bleeding in the gastroenterology department.

If you think that drinking too much will only cause dizziness and vomiting, you are wrong.

Generally, mild cases may experience nystagmus, hallucinations, delusions of persecution , etc., while severe cases may even cause gastric ulcers, gastric perforation, and massive gastrointestinal bleeding .

Gastrointestinal bleeding has a mortality rate of 10%-15%.

This situation is more common among people who drink excessively for a long time. It is mostly because long-term alcohol stimulation leads to cirrhosis and increased portal vein pressure, which affects the blood flow back to the heart through the liver, causing some of the blood that should have returned through the liver to flow back to the stomach and esophageal blood vessels, bursting the blood vessel walls and causing massive gastrointestinal bleeding. Since the amount of bleeding is often large, it can easily endanger life.

In cold seasons, the probability of massive gastrointestinal bleeding will be higher due to increased vascular pressure.

Drinking for this kind of people is a death sentence!

In addition, people who take cephalosporins or penicillins may suffer from disulfiram-like poisoning if they drink alcohol within one week of taking the medication.

Symptoms include facial flushing, headache, chest tightness, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, vomiting, blurred vision, severe drop in blood pressure, difficulty breathing, etc., which are life-threatening.

Drink in moderation and avoid drinking on an empty stomach

Eat some food first

Reduce direct irritation of alcohol to gastric mucosa

After drinking

Once severe chest pain or abdominal pain occurs

Vomiting coffee-colored liquid, vomiting blood, and difficulty breathing

Be sure to seek medical attention as soon as possible!