The danger of drinking alcohol for health
siaran rakyat. Jakarta, Some time ago, alcoholic waste claimed the lives of up to 28 people died. Victims are spread in several regions, namely South Jakarta, East Jakarta, Depok, and Bekasi. Even though there are no details of the drinks consumed by the victims, the East Jakarta Regional Police explained that the victims consumed ginseng-type drinks.
"Again, we are investigating as to where the oplos drinks come from," said East Jakarta Police Chief Commissioner Tony Surya Putra when confirmed, Tuesday (3/4).
Seeing this case, Ari Fahrial Syam, an internal medicine specialist said that alcoholic waste comes from a mixture of several types of alcoholic drinks carelessly.
Ari revealed, alcoholic waste is dangerous because it is not known how much alcohol is in it. Initially drinks only have a low concentration or alcohol content. But when mixed, the alcohol content in it does not increase.
"If beer is maybe three percent, wine can be around 20 percent. When mixed, we don't know what the concentration is, it can be 90 percent," Ari said, Thursday (4/5).
"The higher the concentration, the more dangerous."
This alcoholic drink is not only mixed with other alcohols but also mixed with industrial alcohol (methanol), herbal medicines such as strong drugs or health supplements, including ginseng.
The danger of Miras Oplosan
Ari explained that alcoholic beverages need to be avoided because they can have chronic or acute effects. Chronic effects such as irritation of the stomach, then wounds arise and can swell when it gets worse.
In addition, alcoholic beverages can injure other digestive organs such as the intestine, including the emergence of colon cancer or colorectal cancer. This doctor and consultant for digestion adds that the liver can also be negatively affected by alcohol consumption.
"Everything is metabolized in the liver. Drinking alcohol makes the burden of the liver more severe, can get inflamed. Continue to drink alcohol for a long time the liver does not have time to regenerate, he also experiences shrinking or cirrhosis, can liver cancer," he explained.
Those who mix several types of alcoholic beverages aim to get euphoria. The price of beer, said Ari, is considered expensive so it is mixed with other alcoholic drinks to obtain a similar effect.
Citing the National Poisoning Information Center (Siker), the alcohol component allowed in alcoholic beverages is ethanol (C2H5OH) which is obtained from fermentation of agricultural products containing carbohydrates by fermentation and distillation or fermentation without distillation.
Whereas in alcoholic waste sometimes also contains methanol, technical alcohol (more than 55 percent ethanol), drugs, soft drinks, health supplements, even chemicals. The goal is to reduce the selling price of alcohol.
These ingredients are considered dangerous for the body. The content of methanol in it can cause blindness and even death.
Methanol is an industrial alcohol used for paints, varnish removers, paint solvents, and others. It's just that, methanol has an odor and taste similar to ethanol, so it is often misused for substituting ethanol for making alcoholic waste.
However, the content of methanol in alcohol mixture will cause euphoria, dizziness, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, pancreatitis, acute hepatitis, bleeding in the digestive tract, ataxia, disorientation.
Some other symptoms such as muscle incoordination, muscle paralysis, respiratory depression, respiratory failure, pulmonary aspiration, pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, metabolic acidosis, ketoacidosis, hypoglycemia, bradycardia, hypotension, amnesia, decreased level of consciousness, seizures, fainting, coma can also occur due to alcoholic drink
"Again, we are investigating as to where the oplos drinks come from," said East Jakarta Police Chief Commissioner Tony Surya Putra when confirmed, Tuesday (3/4).
Seeing this case, Ari Fahrial Syam, an internal medicine specialist said that alcoholic waste comes from a mixture of several types of alcoholic drinks carelessly.
Ari revealed, alcoholic waste is dangerous because it is not known how much alcohol is in it. Initially drinks only have a low concentration or alcohol content. But when mixed, the alcohol content in it does not increase.
"If beer is maybe three percent, wine can be around 20 percent. When mixed, we don't know what the concentration is, it can be 90 percent," Ari said, Thursday (4/5).
"The higher the concentration, the more dangerous."
This alcoholic drink is not only mixed with other alcohols but also mixed with industrial alcohol (methanol), herbal medicines such as strong drugs or health supplements, including ginseng.
The danger of Miras Oplosan
Ari explained that alcoholic beverages need to be avoided because they can have chronic or acute effects. Chronic effects such as irritation of the stomach, then wounds arise and can swell when it gets worse.
In addition, alcoholic beverages can injure other digestive organs such as the intestine, including the emergence of colon cancer or colorectal cancer. This doctor and consultant for digestion adds that the liver can also be negatively affected by alcohol consumption.
"Everything is metabolized in the liver. Drinking alcohol makes the burden of the liver more severe, can get inflamed. Continue to drink alcohol for a long time the liver does not have time to regenerate, he also experiences shrinking or cirrhosis, can liver cancer," he explained.
Those who mix several types of alcoholic beverages aim to get euphoria. The price of beer, said Ari, is considered expensive so it is mixed with other alcoholic drinks to obtain a similar effect.
Citing the National Poisoning Information Center (Siker), the alcohol component allowed in alcoholic beverages is ethanol (C2H5OH) which is obtained from fermentation of agricultural products containing carbohydrates by fermentation and distillation or fermentation without distillation.
Whereas in alcoholic waste sometimes also contains methanol, technical alcohol (more than 55 percent ethanol), drugs, soft drinks, health supplements, even chemicals. The goal is to reduce the selling price of alcohol.
These ingredients are considered dangerous for the body. The content of methanol in it can cause blindness and even death.
Methanol is an industrial alcohol used for paints, varnish removers, paint solvents, and others. It's just that, methanol has an odor and taste similar to ethanol, so it is often misused for substituting ethanol for making alcoholic waste.
However, the content of methanol in alcohol mixture will cause euphoria, dizziness, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, pancreatitis, acute hepatitis, bleeding in the digestive tract, ataxia, disorientation.
Some other symptoms such as muscle incoordination, muscle paralysis, respiratory depression, respiratory failure, pulmonary aspiration, pulmonary edema, pneumonitis, metabolic acidosis, ketoacidosis, hypoglycemia, bradycardia, hypotension, amnesia, decreased level of consciousness, seizures, fainting, coma can also occur due to alcoholic drink
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