But society is much more negative about a woman suffering from alcoholism than to male alcoholics. If, next to a drinking man, there is often a loving woman who will help to go through treatment courses, she will have moral support, then not only the society but, first of all, the husband and children turns away from the woman who is addicted! Because of this, a woman prefers to drink alone.
Furthermore. On the female body, alcohol is affected differently. Women are sufficiently small dose of alcohol for the onset of intoxication. This is due to the fact that the female body contains 10% less water than the male body. It is also noted that the monthly cycles affect the intensity of craving for alcohol.
So, briefly outlining the problem, let's look at how alcohol acts on a woman's body, so to speak, from within.
To start.
Women who suffer from alcohol dependence, quickly "earn" themselves, somatic disorders (liver, heart, vessels, endocrine glands). Alcohol has a detrimental effect on the female body, appearance, accelerates aging.
The younger generation is more worried. Television and advertising actively propagandize to us that low-alcoholic fizzy drinks are good, fun. But, for example, in a bottle of ordinary beer, alcohol is contained as much as it is contained in 50 ml of vodka. So what is good about that youngsters - the successors of the human race - drink these same carbonated drinks on the yard benches? Abuse of alcohol leads to an increase in the number of gynecological diseases, often of an inflammatory nature and leading to infertility. Most often this is caused by promiscuous sexual intercourse on the background of alcoholic intoxication.
Now let's see how alcohol affects the female body during pregnancy.
The strength of the effects of alcohol at the time of conception varies: there may be both mild disorders and severe diseases of the unborn child.
The first trimester of pregnancy is the most important and very responsible. During this period, a woman should try to refuse even the smallest doses of alcohol, since it is then the laying of organs and the formation of various tissues. And taking alcohol can lead to fetus deformities.
In our modern medical literature, a term has appeared that denotes a complex of vices in newborn children caused by exposure to alcohol during fetal development - fetal alcohol syndrome (ASP) or alcohol fetopathy syndrome.
The peculiarities of this disease include the child's lagging behind in the physical, emotional terms, as well as the appearance of congenital anomalies, the work of the heart, genital organs, and the central nervous system are disrupted. Most often these babies are born with low body weight. In addition to this the face of the baby is modified: a small size of the skull, narrow eyes and an unusual fold over them, a thin upper lip.
But drinking alcohol is dangerous at any time of pregnancy. Since alcohol easily penetrates from the mother to the fetus through the blood vessels. Often taking alcohol leads to miscarriages.
Breastfeeding mother also should not forget about caution. It is not necessary to drink, because even the slightest dose, which has got to the baby through the milk, can adversely affect the development of the central nervous system. Children drinking parents are restlessly behaving and sleeping badly, there are seizures and there is a further mental lag.