Alcohol use has become a part of people's lives and it is no longer possible to imagine holidays and entertainment without it. Everyone should know how much to drink so as not to harm their health and not to suffer from a hangover.
How to calculate your alcohol percentage
Paying homage to tradition, people drink a variety of alcoholic beverages at the table and during their holidays. But everyone wants to avoid the morning hangover, to keep their health. With regular consumption of intoxicants, the risk of alcohol dependence increases. Everyone can find a relatively safe level of alcohol for themselves.
There is a special formula by which you can find out the dose of a single drink, when it is guaranteed that you will be able to avoid the hangover syndrome: 1, 5 ml of pure alcohol per 1 kg of body weight. Given the fact that vodka contains 40% alcohol, in relation to this type of alcohol you can drink 3, 75 ml per 1 kg of body weight at a time. If the drink is stretched in time for 4-5 hours, then the dose of alcohol can be increased by 25%.
It is imperative 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 permissible level for women will be half lower than for men. The presence of various additives, colorants or flavors also exacerbates the alcohol syndrome, so the side effect of such drinks will be more severe than that of pure vodka.
There are other conditions under which a hangover cannot be avoided, even if the drinking norm is observed:
- mixing different alcoholic beverages;
- drinking cocktails of strong alcohol and carbonated drinks;
- drinking after a night without sleep;
- smoking while intoxicating;
- drinking alcohol on an empty stomach or with fatty foods;
- failure to rest for 20-25 minutes between toasts.
The best way to avoid a hangover is to drink in moderation.
How much alcohol can you drink a day without harming the body
When alcoholic beverages are consumed, a heavy burden falls on the liver due to the toxicity of ethanol. But the human brain is most sensitive to alcohol, in which the irreversible destruction of cells begins with constant drinking of alcohol. The neural network cannot recover until the next drink. If you do not know how much vodka you can drink and in what time interval, then 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 body weight per day, and for vodka - 6 ml. After consuming at this rate, you should take an 8-day break so that the body can recover and return to normal.
How much alcohol can you drink without the risk of sleep
The onset of alcohol dependence does not always depend on the amount of alcohol consumed. To a greater extent, the cause is hereditary predisposition and psychological factors. Even people who drink a lot when needed can continue without drinking for a long time. But regular drinking can become addictive and addictive over time.
There is a term "critical dose" - this is the maximum dose for a person that he can drink without risking to fall to the 2-3rd stage of alcoholism, when control of consciousness is lost and drunkenness begins with a severe hangover.
A person who suspects that he is developing alcohol dependence should know approximately what stage he is at. This is important to prevent the progression of the disease and at least to be stable at that level.
Such people need to remember how much vodka they need to drink so that they do not fall even lower and, showing will, stick to their norm while they are still able to control themselves. Increasing the volume of alcohol can lead to recklessness and heavy drinking.
People who consume moderately and balanced in the 1st and 2nd stage of alcoholism, can drink 100-300 g of vodka 1-4 times a month. This will cause very little harm to the body and prevent further slipping into alcohol dependence, which can happen unnoticed by the drinker himself.
Those who already suffer from alcohol dependence should completely stop drinking alcohol. Each dose, regardless of type and variety, increases the likelihood of recurrence and adversely affects health.
The age of the drinker must be taken into account. Those under 20 are more likely to sleep. Middle-aged men accept the consequences a little easier.
Doses of different types of alcohol
Any volume of ethyl alcohol is dangerous to health. You should be careful even when consuming alcohol-based medicines and follow the rules for taking them. Do not neglect 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 in the first place you should pay attention to the strength of the drink. With the same volume of alcohol, varieties with different ethyl content will have a different effect on humans.
Drinks that contain dyes, flavors and various types of flavors are much more harmful than good cognac or natural wines. Taking into account the individual characteristics of the organism, each person has his own rate of alcohol.
There is no exact figure showing how much alcohol each person can drink, but the approximate speed is as follows:
- vodka or cognac - 75 ml;
- wine - 400 ml;
- beer - 500 ml.
Mixing of different types of alcohol should not be allowed, in case of violation of these rules, the harmful effects of alcohol are significantly increased. Women are recommended to drink half the male dose. But even minimal daily intake of narcotics can lead to alcoholism if drinking occurs regularly.
Who should not drink alcohol
There are categories of people who are contraindicated to consume any amount of vodka per day:
- persons with the 2-3rd stage of alcohol dependence;
- epileptics;
- those who have suffered a concussion or head injury;
- agitated, aggressive, conflicted individuals who lose control of themselves after drinking.
People with various diseases should abstain from alcohol, and in exceptional cases to drink only with a doctor's permission.