Intoxication of alcohol: how to conduct a medical examination

Intoxication of alcohol - an intoxication of the body, caused by the psychotropic and physiological effects of drinks containing alcohol. Usually, in unhealthy cases, intoxication stimulates nervous activity, symptoms of a vegetative character appear. In severe cases, inhibitory processes in the brain and central nervous system increase, neurological disorders increase, all mental functions become oppressed to a coma.

Individual features of the human body, the amount of volume and strength of alcoholic beverages determine the stages of alcoholic intoxication. Alcoholic intoxication is divided into simple and pathological.

Alcohol does not bring anyone to the good. A drinking person often has trouble with law enforcement. And for the appearance in a public place in a drunken state, especially for a drunken debauchery, a citizen can be taken to a hospital for admission to a doctor-expert in narcology for an examination - medical examination for intoxication, its nature and severity.

The manifestation of alcoholic intoxication, its features, severity depends on the following factors:

1. The quality of the alcoholic beverage.
2. The amount of alcohol ingested.
3. Speed ​​of drinking.
4. Thermal processes in the body.
5. Temperature in the environment.
6. Weight of a person.
7. The gender of the person.
8. Features of the organism of the drinker.
9. The state of mind.
10. Overstrain.

There are many factors to consider. The nature of intoxication can determine accentuations and personality psychopathies, past craniocerebral trauma, infectious and other diseases.

Medical examination for intoxicated state

Diagnosis of the presence of alcohol intoxication is based on the characteristic symptoms and signs, the alcohol content in the exhaled air. Narcologists are guided by criteria, conducting a medical examination for intoxication alcohol, when drawing up a general conclusion, setting the state of one of the following.

1. The customer is not drunk, sober, signs of drinking are not established.
2. The fact of the use of alcohol is established, thus there are no signs of intoxication. Signs of intoxication that can be established: nystagmus( eyeball tremor horizontally), reddening of eyes sclera, coordination tests positive, presence of alcohol smell, alcohol vapor in exhaled air are determined. Chromatographically, alcohol in the blood is determined and is in the range from 0.4 to 1%.
3. Alcoholic intoxication with deviant behavior and mental changes according to the pathological type. There is a persistent smell of alcohol when the client breathes, motor disorders, vegetative-vascular disorders, ethanol - 1% or more in the blood test. This alcohol intoxication is referred to as pathological.
4. The state of intoxication of non-alcoholic by origin substances, psychoactive substances, substances of narcotic nature.