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After How Long Should Drinking Be Discontinued To Avoid Risks Of Liver Damage?
Question: How long do I have to stop drinking before delay higher risk test?
Brief Answer:
I am not exactly sure of the question
Detailed Answer:
The relationship between drinking and risks are several:
In one binge, 1 drink is enough to make one unfit to drive and is quite possible to be tested as DUI.
In one binge:
"The lethal dose of alcohol is 5 to 8g/kg (3g/kg for children)6 – that is, for a 60kg person, 300g of alcohol can kill, which is equal to 30 standard drinks (about 1 litre of spirits or four bottles of wine)."
http://www.alcohol.org.nz/alcohol-its-effects/health-effects/alcohol-poisoning
How much alcohol at one time will produce liver damage? there is probably a very slight amount of damage with even one drink but this, even daily, just isn't going to harm the liver enough to be significant. Several episodes of heavy binge drinking can cause problems with health.
Chronically, it is much harder to say and much more variable.
Most alcohol dependent and/or addicted individuals have been drinking for years. It is more the establishment of a pattern of unregulated drinking than the amount that makes someone have life issues with alcohol. Many people drink heavily for a small period of their lives and do not get into long term problems; they usually have limits of many types on how they drink and stay within these limits.
The gradations of harmful liver effects are very crude. stage 1) any significant lab abnormality ever (this is common, but it isn't that big a percent of the total number of people who have ever drunk alcohol). stage 2) an amount that would cause hospitalization or illness but, these do NOT generally affect life expectancy but can affect life enjoyment. eventually, people develop cirrhosis, fluid accumulation, signs of liver failure and this has some significant risk of death (about 50/50 over 5 years).
So, with addiction, any sign of life problems from it is a very serious worry: feeling like one is out of control, one has to quit and unable to, people being alarmed/concerned about your drinking, needing a drink to be normal... these are all very bad signs.
It takes more alcohol exposure and duration to start getting health issues, so this is probably less of an issue than the effects of ONE time of drinking (DUI or how much can cause injury) or the duration of alcohol that can cause addiction.
I am not exactly sure of the question
Detailed Answer:
The relationship between drinking and risks are several:
In one binge, 1 drink is enough to make one unfit to drive and is quite possible to be tested as DUI.
In one binge:
"The lethal dose of alcohol is 5 to 8g/kg (3g/kg for children)6 – that is, for a 60kg person, 300g of alcohol can kill, which is equal to 30 standard drinks (about 1 litre of spirits or four bottles of wine)."
http://www.alcohol.org.nz/alcohol-its-effects/health-effects/alcohol-poisoning
How much alcohol at one time will produce liver damage? there is probably a very slight amount of damage with even one drink but this, even daily, just isn't going to harm the liver enough to be significant. Several episodes of heavy binge drinking can cause problems with health.
Chronically, it is much harder to say and much more variable.
Most alcohol dependent and/or addicted individuals have been drinking for years. It is more the establishment of a pattern of unregulated drinking than the amount that makes someone have life issues with alcohol. Many people drink heavily for a small period of their lives and do not get into long term problems; they usually have limits of many types on how they drink and stay within these limits.
The gradations of harmful liver effects are very crude. stage 1) any significant lab abnormality ever (this is common, but it isn't that big a percent of the total number of people who have ever drunk alcohol). stage 2) an amount that would cause hospitalization or illness but, these do NOT generally affect life expectancy but can affect life enjoyment. eventually, people develop cirrhosis, fluid accumulation, signs of liver failure and this has some significant risk of death (about 50/50 over 5 years).
So, with addiction, any sign of life problems from it is a very serious worry: feeling like one is out of control, one has to quit and unable to, people being alarmed/concerned about your drinking, needing a drink to be normal... these are all very bad signs.
It takes more alcohol exposure and duration to start getting health issues, so this is probably less of an issue than the effects of ONE time of drinking (DUI or how much can cause injury) or the duration of alcohol that can cause addiction.
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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