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Alcohol withdrawal. How long does withdrawal syndrome or simply alcohol withdrawal last? Alcohol withdrawal symptoms

Every alcohol-dependent person in the second or third stage of the disease experiences a hangover. In medicine this is called withdrawal syndrome. The pathology of addiction manifests itself in a physical craving for alcohol, and is reinforced by visible symptoms. At the same time, as long as the withdrawal syndrome lasts, the physical signs of withdrawal in an alcoholic appear. They can be neutralized either with a new dose of alcohol or with a set of medical procedures based on infusions (droppers).

Important: it will not be possible to relieve alcohol withdrawal without a new dose of alcohol on your own, since the metabolism in the alcoholic’s body is completely rebuilt. And in the absence of a new dose, the ethanol level drops critically, which leads to withdrawal syndrome. We will discuss how to survive a hangover and how long it lasts when you give up alcohol in the material below.

Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal

Withdrawal for experienced alcoholics is very difficult and without a new dose of alcohol, and without medical help it can turn into delirium tremens or mental seizures. Delirium is also possible - a state of acute panic attack, which can manifest itself 2-5 days after the last dose of alcohol taken. Moreover, under the influence of such a state, a person is quite capable of committing suicide or committing a serious crime against another person. It is worth remembering that for any manifestations of psychopathic disorders, it is necessary to urgently hospitalize the patient.

Important: according to statistics, every tenth alcoholic who independently experiences alcohol withdrawal becomes disabled or incapacitated.

Thus, as a result of a sharp decrease in the level of ethanol in the blood of an alcoholic, the following external signs of a hangover become evident:

  • Possible increase in temperature and fever. In this case, before the ambulance arrives, you can apply a cold towel to the person’s forehead or ice wrapped in a cloth.
  • Chills, hand tremors, and headache may also occur.
  • Emotional instability in the form of aggression, irritability or apathy.
  • Insomnia and agitation.
  • Increased sweating.
  • Constant feeling of thirst.
  • Nausea and vomiting are possible.
  • Absent-mindedness and difficulties in perceiving reality.

In this case, the patient may experience all the symptoms at once, or some of them. The clinical manifestation of alcohol withdrawal completely depends on the stage of the patient’s alcoholism and the duration of alcohol consumption until complete abstinence.

Duration of withdrawal syndrome (withdrawal)

The severity and duration of alcohol withdrawal completely depend on the initial state of the person’s health, the duration of the binge and the individual characteristics of the person’s body.

  • So, for those people who do not abuse alcohol, but at some point simply had too much, withdrawal symptoms (just a hangover) can last from noon to a day. At the same time, drinking plenty of fluids and sound sleep help a person get out of this state faster.
  • Those who like to indulge in alcohol often and a lot may experience alcohol withdrawal for three to five days. At the same time, more often than not, a hangover will still result in another binge. Although this can be avoided simply by contacting a specialized clinic for a timely course of treatment.
  • A binge alcoholic experiencing withdrawal may suffer for weeks or even months if he does not ask relatives or doctors for help. It is this situation that threatens to result in subsequent disability for a person.

Important: if you completely remove the possibility of a hangover for a person who drinks alcohol frequently but periodically, then over time the toxins will leave the body on their own, and all systems and metabolic processes will resume their work according to the old scenario. Binge alcoholics need to go to a drug treatment clinic to receive maintenance therapy.

Treatment of withdrawal symptoms

All systems of an alcoholic’s body must be supported during withdrawal symptoms with the help of medications or IV drips. In this case, infusions are selected strictly in accordance with the general condition of the patient’s body and taking into account his existing chronic diseases. Otherwise, all dropper compositions contain B vitamins, glucose and magnesium. The effect of all medicinal supplements in droppers is aimed at the complete restoration of the body:

  • Thus, hepatoprotectors renew the liver and cleanse it of toxins;
  • Diuretics stimulate urine production, which provokes the natural cleansing of toxins from the body;
  • Magnesium helps restore the patient’s nervous system;
  • B vitamins calm the nervous system and help the body recover from severe toxic alcohol shock;
  • Sodium chloride normalizes blood pressure.
  • Drugs may be prescribed as supplements to help get rid of chronic diseases or put them into stable remission.

Important: you can independently treat a hangover with medications in tablet or powder form only in cases of mild to moderate withdrawal symptoms.

Medicines for home use

If the patient does not have the opportunity to get to the clinic, and the condition leaves nothing better to do, then you can try to cope with withdrawal symptoms on your own. But it is worth remembering that the patient takes full responsibility for his health and life. So, the following drugs will help relieve a hangover:

  • "Amlodipine" and "Nifedipine". They belong to the group of calcium antagonists. These medications reduce calcium levels, which increase sharply as a result of stopping drinking alcohol and enter the human brain. Such an excess of the mineral can cause the destruction of brain neurons and cause overstrain of the nervous system.
  • In the first days of a hangover with mild withdrawal symptoms, you can take tranquilizers such as "Phenazepam", "Tazepam", "Diazepam". They will relieve anxiety and excitement.
  • Preparations with magnesium indicated to eliminate magnesium deficiency. Its deficiency causes hand tremors, insomnia, inconsistency of body muscles, and possible disorientation of the patient. Also, with a lack of magnesium, headaches, dizziness and body tension develop.
  • Anti-seizure medications indicated for those patients who are prone to convulsive seizures. This could be Valproate or Carbamazepine. You can also take vitamin complexes at the same time, which will make the patient’s condition easier.
  • β-blocker drugs help normalize heart function and eliminate general anxiety. This group of medications also normalizes blood pressure and eliminates the risk of panic in the patient. At the same time, drugs in this group perfectly relieve cravings for alcohol.

Important: in combination with taking the listed medications, you can offer the patient protein food or a protein shake. It is prepared from ingredients such as water, protein, herbs and special syrup. Oxygen is passed through the cocktail, which allows you to quickly deliver all the useful components in it to all the internal organs and systems of the patient.

Traditional (home) methods for treating alcohol withdrawal

If a person is not a binge alcoholic, but at the same time understands that he wants to cope with the craving for alcohol, then you can try to save the situation with herbs. There are the following recipes to combat hangovers and alcohol cravings:

  • St. John's wort infusion. To do this, pour two tablespoons of the herb into 0.5 liters of boiling water and leave until it cools completely. The infusion is taken in the morning and before bedtime, 50 ml until the condition completely improves.
  • Infusion of hop cones. Here you also need to pour a glass of boiling water over a dessert spoon of pine cones and let it sit for an hour. Drink 50 grams of infusion. before bedtime until symptoms of hangover and cravings for alcohol are relieved.
  • Anise seed infusion. Here the seeds (1 teaspoon) are poured with boiling water and left to cool. Drink in the same way as the previous infusions, 50 grams each. before bedtime.

Important: in complex cases of advanced alcoholism, herbs will not help cope with withdrawal symptoms.

The mistake of the alcoholic's relatives

Relatives of an addicted person often develop an angry attitude towards him during moments of hangover and alcohol withdrawal. Phrases like “It’s my own fault”, “I’m drunk”, etc. pop up here. But if a person sincerely wants to get rid of the craving for alcohol and feels bad, it is worth placing such a patient in a hospital for further treatment. Moreover, doctors recommend leaving the patient in the hospital for at least six months. This is the time required to completely restore a person’s nervous system and restore him to his former capacity. A shorter period of treatment may either not bring the desired result, or may result in another breakdown, since long-term binge drinking/alcoholism removes the human body from the system of healthy functioning both on the mental and physical level.

Alcohol withdrawal is the body’s reaction to refusing another dose of alcohol; withdrawal is especially evident in alcoholics after long binges and with existing chronic diseases or their relapses.

Signs of alcohol withdrawal - what to do and how to get rid of pain?

The pain of an alcoholic may be different, but all this is the result of a lack or unwillingness to begin timely treatment for alcoholism, which is preferably carried out in specialized drug treatment clinics in your area or city.

Relieving symptoms of alcohol withdrawal does not mean undergoing treatment. Symptoms are the pain that is caused by alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

You can get rid of alcohol withdrawal at home, but there are some risks of complications. Complications are influenced by several factors, primarily:

    Number of days of binge drinking

    Physical state

    Presence of chronic diseases

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If you are sure that this is not at risk for you, then try to cope with alcohol withdrawal on your own or call a narcologist to your home to administer an IV, which will relieve you of physical ailments and pain in a few hours. This procedure effectively relieves the main symptoms of alcohol withdrawal:

    Alcoholic shakes violently

    Headache after drinking for a long time

    An alcoholic has pain in his legs and arms, and his joints are twisted.

Alcohol withdrawal: symptoms and consequences

If you feel that all the symptoms are accompanied by pain in the internal organs, high blood pressure, severe dizziness, lethargy and other alarming signs, then it is safest to transport the alcoholic to a hospital for round-the-clock monitoring and professional help.

Headaches from a hangover are quite normal and you shouldn’t wonder why this happens. Shaking, chills, twisting of joints and a wild desire to have a hangover - this is the morning for an alcoholic. If you delay in getting professional help, more serious problems will appear that are much more difficult to solve.

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The main insidiousness of alcoholism is that it does not appear overnight, but develops and strengthens gradually, day after day. Continuous and methodical consumption of alcoholic beverages, even those classified as low-alcohol products, invariably provokes withdrawal syndrome, or, as it is also called, withdrawal symptoms.

This is not just a condition after another alcohol abuse the day before, but a full-fledged pathology, manifested by specific symptoms of a physical and mental nature.

General description of alcohol withdrawal

A person who consumes alcohol for a long time never admits to being dependent on it, because he does not see a fundamental difference between a severe form of alcoholism and simple, but regular, drinking of alcoholic beverages.

A typical hangover usually lasts one day, and if you maintain the correct drinking regime, your overall health will improve much faster.

Symptoms of addiction do not leave a person for 3-7 days, and usually this period of time ends with drinking another portion of alcohol.

If you manage to abstain from this, then the body will naturally cleanse itself of the remnants of toxic substances, and the general symptoms will gradually begin to smooth out and disappear.

Alcohol withdrawal has one distinctive feature - it has a fairly pronounced intensity, which is why a person loses his ability to work. As a rule, he cannot cope with the problem on his own and requires complex treatment with the use of medications.

Why does withdrawal occur?

Alcohol addiction is the result of long-term consumption of alcohol, due to which the results of ethanol breakdown accumulate in the blood. These toxic substances accumulate in the liver and intestines, disrupting the normal rhythm of their activity.

In the body of a person who does not have such an addiction, specific enzymes are produced that prevent toxins from accumulating in critical quantities.

If ethanol is supplied continuously and in large quantities, this will lead to the following consequences:


  • liver dysfunction;
  • lack of enzymes that break down toxic substances;
  • the spread of toxins through the bloodstream and their entry into vital organs.

After another binge ends, the breakdown products of ethanol from the liver enter the bloodstream and begin to penetrate the brain and nerve fibers. This is where attacks of aggression, visual and auditory hallucinations, acts of violence and other signs of alcohol poisoning arise.

How does the pathology manifest itself?

The symptoms and complexity of alcohol withdrawal depend entirely on the duration of the binge and how much alcohol the person drank, and what is the current state of his overall health.

The main signs of alcohol dependence are as follows:


  • Severe fatigue, or, conversely, psychomotor excitability that is atypical for a person;
  • Trembling hands, eyelids and even the whole body;
  • In the most severe situations, vomiting begins, while with an average level of ethanol poisoning, the gag reflex is completely weakened;
  • The withdrawal state does not allow a person to sleep normally; he is constantly tormented by nightmares and visions that worsen his mental health;
  • Coordination of movements, concentration, thinking and concentration are impaired;
  • Depression appears, which manifests itself in the form of apathy, anxiety and phobias;
  • Visual and auditory hallucinations occur that require treatment in a hospital setting.

Therapeutic techniques


It’s worth starting with the fact that you don’t need to wonder on your own how to relieve severe alcohol withdrawal, since this is fraught with serious complications, sometimes even incompatible with life.

Treatment is always prescribed only by a doctor, and is carried out under his supervision.

Modern medications can quickly relieve all signs of alcohol poisoning, but not the consequences of it.

As a result of the progression of the pathology, irreversible processes that are exclusively negative in nature are launched in the body. Therapeutic therapy is based on complete abstinence from alcohol, even in minimal quantities. The narcologist gives a referral for injections of saline solutions that have the ability to remove the results of the breakdown of alcohol (ethanol) and have a detoxifying effect on the body.

It is customary to relieve alcohol withdrawal gradually, so in addition to droppers, drugs are prescribed that have a sedative, diuretic and vasodilating effect.

In addition, occasionally there is a need for the following drugs:


  • Anticonvulsants, which relieve seizures and convulsions;
  • Magnesium preparations that relieve tremor, insomnia, headaches, ataxia, vegetative dystonia and other signs of severe magnesium ion deficiency;
  • Calcium antagonists, eliminating overexcitation of the nervous system and preventing the destruction of neurons;
  • b-blockers, which normalize blood pressure in the arteries, temperature and heart rate;
  • Tranquilizers.

A course of appropriate treatment is a chance to return to a full life, which should be taken advantage of regardless of public opinion and other circumstances.

If you decide to quit drinking, don't think it will be easy. The thing is that a person suffering from alcohol addiction cannot just stop drinking. Such people usually have already formed psychological, and in the later stages of alcoholism, physical dependence, which guides the person’s desires. Therefore, even if you stop drinking, the craving for alcohol will persist for some time. It is very important at this time not to succumb to addiction and not drink again, then you will enter a new round of alcoholism, and subsequently it will be even more difficult to quit. However, over time, this craving for alcohol will weaken and finally go away completely. It is then that we can talk about a complete recovery from alcoholism. Many people who quit drinking are interested in the answer to the question of when the craving for drinking will go away. It depends on many factors.

Time frame for getting rid of addiction

When the craving for alcohol goes away largely depends on several points:

  1. First of all, the speed of getting rid of addiction depends on the stage of alcoholism at which the patient is. The more advanced the disease, the more difficult and longer it will take to get rid of it. Sometimes alcoholics in the second and third stages have such strong cravings that without the help of special techniques, medications and coding, a person cannot quit the addiction. The easiest and fastest way to get rid of alcohol addiction is in the first stage of alcoholism. The only trouble is that at such an early stage only a few realize the full danger of their situation and begin treatment.
  2. No less important To quickly get rid of addiction, it depends on what type of alcohol a person is addicted to. Recently, cases of beer alcoholism have become more frequent. Since this drink is not as strong as vodka, the dependence on ethanol is not as strong, so overcoming cravings and recovery will be easier and faster. A stronger dependence can be obtained if you regularly drink strong alcoholic drinks (vodka, cognac). In this case, it will take longer to completely overcome the cravings. Drug addiction is the hardest and longest to treat.
  3. Significantly speed up the healing process allows motivation, help from loved ones, doing what you love or hobby. The thing is that we realize the craving for alcohol and think about drinking. If our thoughts are occupied with other, more important matters, then alcohol addiction goes away much faster. Communication with family, playing sports or an interesting hobby, a favorite job or caring for children can push thoughts about drinking into the background. As a result, over time, the harmful cravings will go away completely.
  4. Great importance How quickly you get rid of alcohol addiction depends on how often you experienced breakdowns and relapses on the way to overcoming cravings. The more often this happened, the longer you will fight the disease, since after each new breakdown and binge you will have to start all over again.

You should not think that the speed of overcoming cravings for alcohol depends on the choice of one or another treatment method. Of course, it is important to choose the right treatment method. It is better to have this done by a doctor after a complete examination of your body. But no less important is how focused the patient is on healing. For example, injection coding can be done for a period of 6 months to 5 years. And this is no coincidence, because for some people the craving disappears after six months, while for others five years may not be enough, and they come for re-coding.

Any treatment methods will give a good effect and allow you to quickly overcome addiction if they are combined with psychological rehabilitation. This is due to the fact that for the development of alcoholism there must be a reason, and if it is found and eliminated, then defeating the disease will be much easier. Typically, addicted people suffer from various phobias, depression, they have fears and dissatisfaction with life, even childhood grievances can provoke the development of alcoholism in adulthood. You can get rid of all these conditions only with the help of a psychologist.

Important: even after getting rid of alcohol addiction, that is, after the craving for alcohol has completely disappeared, you should not drink under any circumstances, since your body can quickly remember old habits, and you can become dependent again.

To speed up the process of getting rid of addiction, you can use various auxiliary methods. It can be:

  • medicinal products;
  • proper nutrition.

Drugs that reduce cravings

It is much easier to pull a patient out of the abyss of alcohol addiction with the help of medications that reduce cravings for alcohol. Moreover, all these drugs can be divided into several groups according to the effect they have on the patient:

  1. Medications that provoke the patient to develop an aversion to alcoholic beverages. The effect of the drug is based on the fact that after ethanol enters the body, the patient’s health sharply worsens, he feels sick, vomits, tachycardia, blood pressure rises, and has a headache. In some cases, if the patient is not provided with timely assistance, everything can end in death.

Attention: when using drugs of the first group, drinking alcoholic beverages is strictly prohibited, as this can lead to stroke, heart attack, seizures, coma and death.

  1. Other medications block receptors in the brain that are responsible for the feeling of pleasure and euphoria after drinking alcohol. As a result, the patient does not get the desired effect after drinking. Over time, the irresistible desire to drink alcohol will decrease and disappear completely.
  2. At later stages of alcoholism, the patient has a different craving for alcohol. He is forced to drink not for pleasure, but to improve his well-being. Very often, withdrawal syndrome forces the patient to go on a long binge. In this case, the patient will be helped by medications that relieve withdrawal symptoms, cleanse the body of alcohol toxins, and normalize well-being. Usually in this case, not just one drug is used, but a whole group of medications that affect certain body systems.

Proper nutrition

In the initial stages of the disease, people take alcohol to gain pleasure, joy and achieve a state of euphoria. If you replenish the amount of hormones in the body that cause similar sensations, then at the first stage of alcoholism this will help you quickly overcome addiction.

As a rule, these are the hormones serotonin and dopamine. The concentration of serotonin in the blood increases in the following cases:

  • taking appropriate foods;
  • exposure to the sun.

The production of dopamine, the pleasure hormone, is promoted by:

  • physical activity (sports, visiting the pool, dancing, jogging, fitness and physical labor);
  • sex;
  • good movies, shopping, music, chatting with friends and family.

Tip: to quickly overcome a strong craving to drink alcohol, you need to eat something sweet. Increasing the level of glucose in the blood will stop the irresistible desire to drink.

Simple carbohydrates are a real “first aid” in the fight against strong cravings for drinking. Typically, such carbohydrates are found in any confectionery products prepared with added sugar, ice cream, honey, and sweet drinks. However, sweeteners (saccharin, aspartame, cyclamate) will not have this effect.

To protect yourself from sudden surges in blood glucose, and therefore the unexpected appearance of an irresistible desire to drink, you need to consume complex carbohydrates. So, the diet of a person who quits drinking must include cereals, fresh fruits and vegetables, and pasta. These foods are rich in fiber, which helps release energy slowly and maintain constant blood glucose levels.

It is important to know: an alcoholic should never be hungry. To prevent thirst from being perceived by the body as a craving for alcohol, you need to drink enough liquid. A couple of glasses of water can curb the temptation to drink alcohol.

Very often, people suffering from alcoholism replace one or even two meals with drinking. This is due to the fact that alcohol releases a large amount of energy into the body, which is formed after processing ethanol. To prevent the urge to drink, eat three full meals a day. Moreover, small snacks consisting of complex and simple carbohydrates are allowed between meals. It could be a banana, grapes, grain cookies, honey.

To activate the production of happiness hormones, it is enough to eat foods rich in amino acids (tryptophan and tyrosine). Useful for you:

  • meat and fish;
  • cereals;
  • soy products;
  • bitter chocolate;
  • chicken and quail eggs;
  • strawberry;
  • tomatoes;
  • Sweet pepper;
  • bananas.

Be sure to eat unrefined foods that contain many trace elements and vitamins. The following products should also be included in your diet: apples, citrus fruits, nuts, brewer's yeast, garlic and onions, honey and other bee products.

So, let's draw conclusions. To quickly overcome strong cravings for alcohol, you can use the following:

  1. Sweets will help replace a glass of alcohol.
  2. You need three full meals a day with unrefined foods, fruits and fresh vegetables.
  3. You need to drink at least 1.5 liters of clean water per day.
  4. Your daily diet should include foods containing vitamins (E, C, B) and amino acids.
  5. Bee products (royal jelly, honey and pollen) help quickly overcome strong addiction.

With the systematic consumption of alcoholic beverages in large doses, the drinker develops a persistent alcohol dependence, which, when refusing to drink, is accompanied by a serious condition, called by narcologists abstinence syndrome or hangover.

During this syndrome, there is a sharp decrease in alcohol in the blood, which causes a person to experience withdrawal - a pathological condition characteristic of all drug addicts.

With prolonged abstinence from drinking, the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal intensify, leading the alcoholic to exhaustion.

Main symptoms of withdrawal

Alcohol dependent people, no matter how much they want, cannot help but drink. They need alcohol like water, food and air. The first symptoms of withdrawal symptoms appear in a regular drinker 5-10 hours after he took the last dose. You can relieve a hangover with another portion of alcohol: after this, a person’s well-being improves, and his life takes on meaning again. But after a few hours the alcoholic will feel bad again and will need booze again. Unable to cope with the symptoms of withdrawal on their own, many people dependent on alcoholic beverages go on long-term binges.

It is safe to say that an alcoholic is experiencing withdrawal symptoms if, while quitting alcohol, he experiences the following symptoms:

  • strong thirst;
  • headache;
  • increased sweating;
  • feeling of anxiety;
  • feverish condition;
  • chills;
  • nausea, vomiting;
  • excessive emotionality and irritability;
  • hand tremors;
  • sleep problems;
  • difficulty perceiving what is happening around;
  • inhibition in communication;
  • delirium tremens.

The listed withdrawal symptoms can occur in various combinations. The longer and more a person drinks, the worse his hangover will be. In especially severe cases, alcohol withdrawal can be fatal. When giving up alcohol, a person should not try to cope with his pathological condition on his own. It is good if he is under the supervision of a narcologist. According to statistics, 35% of alcoholics who do not seek medical help die from severe hangovers. Among those who struggled with withdrawal symptoms under medical supervision, the death rate drops to 5%. Proper treatment significantly reduces withdrawal symptoms and significantly reduces the danger to life.

Alcohol-dependent people who want to quit drinking are often interested in the question of how long does withdrawal last when quitting alcohol? The duration and intensity of withdrawal syndrome depends on the alcohol experience and the individual characteristics of the human body. On average, it can last from 4 to 14 days. It sometimes happens that a person copes with a hangover on his own in 1 day, and for some especially heavy-drinking alcoholics, the state of withdrawal can last up to a month.

How is alcohol withdrawal treated?

To get out of severe withdrawal syndrome in a short time, an alcohol dependent person should contact a narcologist. To relieve withdrawal symptoms, the doctor will prescribe IV drips to the patient, which contain medications aimed at mitigating a hangover, and a vitamin and mineral complex necessary for the rapid restoration of the body poisoned by alcohol toxins.

Many people dependent on alcoholic beverages are afraid or do not want to go to the doctor and are interested in how to relieve alcohol withdrawal at home? There are many folk methods of combating alcohol addiction, but it should immediately be noted that they can only be used if the hangover syndrome is mild. If a person’s condition during withdrawal is severe, only a narcologist should treat him. To relieve withdrawal symptoms, you can use decoctions of medicinal plants.

  1. Take wormwood, centaury and creeping thyme in equal parts. Pour a tablespoon of the mixture of these herbs into 500 ml of cold water and place on the stove. After the herbs boil, let them brew for about 30-40 minutes, strain and refrigerate. To get rid of alcohol withdrawal, take a decoction of 2 tablespoons in the morning for 2 months.
  2. Grind St. John's wort in a mortar. Take 4 tablespoons of the herb, add 500 ml of water and boil in a water bath. After cooling, pass the broth through cheesecloth and take 2 tablespoons in the morning and evening. With this treatment, the alcoholic’s craving for drinking will completely disappear.
  3. Anise fruits can alleviate a person’s condition during alcohol withdrawal. A teaspoon of these fruits is poured into a glass of water, brought to a boil, the broth is allowed to cool and filtered through a strainer or cheesecloth. In order to alleviate the symptoms of a hangover, it is recommended to drink a quarter glass of medicinal decoction 30 minutes before meals.
  4. Alcohol withdrawal can be relieved with the help of hop cones. Pour a teaspoon of cones into a glass of boiling water and let it brew for about 30 minutes, then filter. The tincture is drunk in small sips of 1 glass before bedtime for as many days as the withdrawal syndrome lasts.

If attempts to get rid of alcohol withdrawal on your own do not bring a person any relief, then he should stop self-medicating and go to a drug treatment clinic. It should be remembered that withdrawal syndrome is a dangerous condition for health, which few people can cope with on their own. But relieving withdrawal symptoms is only the first stage on the path to a sober lifestyle. To completely get rid of alcoholism, a person needs to undergo treatment in a drug treatment clinic, as a result of which his craving for drinking will completely disappear. Well, the key to success in treatment will be his irrepressible desire to quit drinking and start a new life.

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What is alcohol withdrawal and how to deal with it?

The main insidiousness of alcoholism is that it does not appear overnight, but develops and strengthens gradually, day after day. Continuous and methodical consumption of alcoholic beverages, even those classified as low-alcohol products, invariably provokes withdrawal syndrome, or, as it is also called, withdrawal symptoms.

This is not just a condition after another alcohol abuse the day before, but a full-fledged pathology, manifested by specific symptoms of a physical and mental nature.

General description of alcohol withdrawal

A person who consumes alcohol for a long time never admits to being dependent on it, because he does not see a fundamental difference between a severe form of alcoholism and simple, but regular, drinking of alcoholic beverages.

A typical hangover usually lasts one day, and if you maintain the correct drinking regime, your overall health will improve much faster.

Symptoms of addiction do not leave a person for 3-7 days, and usually this period of time ends with drinking another portion of alcohol.

If you manage to abstain from this, then the body will naturally cleanse itself of the remnants of toxic substances, and the general symptoms will gradually begin to smooth out and disappear.

Alcohol withdrawal has one distinctive feature - it has a fairly pronounced intensity, which is why a person loses his ability to work. As a rule, he cannot cope with the problem on his own and requires complex treatment with the use of medications.

Why does withdrawal occur?

Alcohol addiction is the result of long-term consumption of alcohol, due to which the results of ethanol breakdown accumulate in the blood. These toxic substances accumulate in the liver and intestines, disrupting the normal rhythm of their activity.

In the body of a person who does not have such an addiction, specific enzymes are produced that prevent toxins from accumulating in critical quantities.

If ethanol is supplied continuously and in large quantities, this will lead to the following consequences:

  • liver dysfunction;
  • lack of enzymes that break down toxic substances;
  • the spread of toxins through the bloodstream and their entry into vital organs.

After another binge ends, the breakdown products of ethanol from the liver enter the bloodstream and begin to penetrate the brain and nerve fibers. This is where attacks of aggression, visual and auditory hallucinations, acts of violence and other signs of alcohol poisoning arise.

How does the pathology manifest itself?

The symptoms and complexity of alcohol withdrawal depend entirely on the duration of the binge and how much alcohol the person drank, and what is the current state of his overall health.

The main signs of alcohol dependence are as follows:

  • Severe fatigue, or, conversely, psychomotor excitability that is atypical for a person;
  • Trembling hands, eyelids and even the whole body;
  • In the most severe situations, vomiting begins, while with an average level of ethanol poisoning, the gag reflex is completely weakened;
  • The withdrawal state does not allow a person to sleep normally; he is constantly tormented by nightmares and visions that worsen his mental health;
  • Coordination of movements, concentration, thinking and concentration are impaired;
  • Depression appears, which manifests itself in the form of apathy, anxiety and phobias;
  • Visual and auditory hallucinations occur that require treatment in a hospital setting.

Therapeutic techniques

It’s worth starting with the fact that you don’t need to wonder on your own how to relieve severe alcohol withdrawal, since this is fraught with serious complications, sometimes even incompatible with life.

Treatment is always prescribed only by a doctor, and is carried out under his supervision.

Modern medications can quickly relieve all signs of alcohol poisoning, but not the consequences of it.

As a result of the progression of the pathology, irreversible processes that are exclusively negative in nature are launched in the body. Therapeutic therapy is based on complete abstinence from alcohol, even in minimal quantities. The narcologist gives a referral for injections of saline solutions that have the ability to remove the results of the breakdown of alcohol (ethanol) and have a detoxifying effect on the body.

It is customary to relieve alcohol withdrawal gradually, so in addition to droppers, drugs are prescribed that have a sedative, diuretic and vasodilating effect.

In addition, occasionally there is a need for the following drugs:

  • Anticonvulsants, which relieve seizures and convulsions;
  • Magnesium preparations that relieve tremor, insomnia, headaches, ataxia, vegetative dystonia and other signs of severe magnesium ion deficiency;
  • Calcium antagonists, eliminating overexcitation of the nervous system and preventing the destruction of neurons;
  • b-blockers, which normalize blood pressure in the arteries, temperature and heart rate;
  • Tranquilizers.

A course of appropriate treatment is a chance to return to a full life, which should be taken advantage of regardless of public opinion and other circumstances.

Remember that true alcohol withdrawal cannot be dealt with alone or by one family.

Treatment of such pathology is the task of the employees of the narcological dispensary, and neglect of their experience is fraught with severe complications for the patient’s body.