In recent years, beer as a product ...

In the past the domestic drug treatment in their practice of beer alcoholism have not seen and studied his clinic only on the description of Western experts, at present this type of alcohol dependence began and we have clinical everyday reality. Often beer - an integral component of the mandatory morning opohmeleniya. Can be observed in patients with binge, drinking at night from 20 to 40 liters of beer. This hypervolemia (hydrodynamic shocks "- the terminology of resuscitation) brings to the clinic alcohol addiction atypical symptoms, do not have a" wine and vodka, "depending. All of these patients (mostly younger people), lack of protective gag reflex, there are no typical forms of alcohol, hypertension, tachycardia, electrocardiographic signs of cardiac pathology (left ventricular hypertrophy, conduction disturbances, trophic changes of the myocardium). Characterized by hepatic dysfunction (sharply elevated bilirubin, the enzyme activity of ALT, AST, GGT in 3 - 7 times higher than normal), reduced the relative density of urine, the amount of urate and phosphate, a large number of erythrocytes and leukocytes in urine. There is a tendency to raise blood glucose levels. Patients complain of pain in the vital organs: liver, stomach, pancreas, kidney, heart, and cranial pain. In recent years, beer as a product of mass consumption is beginning to look more closely study the regulatory authorities. As evidenced by the information available in the Internet, permissible limits of heavy metals present in beer, as follows (in mg / kg): Pb - 0,3; Cd - 0,003; Ag - 0,2; Hg - 0,005; Cu - 5 , 0; Zn - 10,0. It is easy to calculate that, for example, the maximum permissible dose of cadmium, added to the beer for the formation and retention of the foam can be easily exceeded by drinking more than two bottles (more than 1 liter) of beer. It is not excluded that atypism beer alcoholism is partly due to a large volume of fluid injected into the body (water intoxication), and an additional (possibly major) hroniovozdeystviem toxic salts of heavy metals in the consumed beer volumes. Especially troubling total "pub fashion" among children, adolescents, young men, which inevitably end completion alkogolzavisimyh contingents. However, the majority of moderate (less than daily, but occasionally) and quantitatively controlled by the consumption of beer is not addictive. Approaches to the treatment world experience practical Addiction does not know the means and methods of simultaneous and radical deliverance from alcohol dependence, which would enable the patient to move to a controlled (metered-dose, moderate) alcohol consumption. Treatment of alcohol dependence is a complex, multi-, multi-step (and often, lifelong) process within the medical specialty of drug and alcohol abuse and its related disciplines (psychiatry, toxicology, therapy, medical psychology, etc.).