Today’s Health Tip ~ Is Drinking Too Much on a Single Occassion Harmful?

You Bet It Is – Here are the Detrimental Effects

Drinking excessively within a short period of time, or binge drinking, increases the stress on your body and internal organs (and can result in feeling a hangover following a drinking session). High levels of alcohol in your body can result in headaches, severe dehydration, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and indigestion.³

Drinking excessively, even on a single occasion, increases a person’s risk of detrimental heart effects. These effects include:¹⁶

• • Cardiomyopathy, which means that your heart muscle has a harder time pumping blood.
  • Arrhythmias, which is an irregular heartbeat.
  • High blood pressure.
  • Stroke.

Excessive alcohol use on a single occasion can also put you at risk of alcohol poisoning. This can occur when your body is overwhelmed by the amount of alcohol you drank and is no longer able to effectively process it from your system. You can experience a negative impact on your breath rate, heart rate, and gag reflex. Severe alcohol poisoning can lead to a coma and even death.

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