Alcohol Rehabilitation Treatment :: Alcohol Symptoms Signs :: Alcohol symptoms of alcohol withdrawal due to alcohol addiction
For the drinker with only a mild degree of physical dependence or alcohol addiction, alcohol withdrawal effects may not extended beyond the alcohol symptoms listed below. The alcohol symptoms of alcohol withdrawal include.
Hangovers: fairly common result of overindulging-headache, fatigue, thirst and nervousness. There may be nausea and abdominal cramping. It is diagnosed in alcoholic's report that fewer hangovers occur in drinkers who are non-alcoholic this may be because they have learned to ignore alcohol symptoms.
Sleep disturbances-waking up earlier than usual after expecting to "sleep it off", being unable to fall asleep, disturbed dreaming are same of alcohol symptoms. Irritability, anxiety and restlessness-all caused by the irritant effects of alcohol addiction.
Tremor or "morning shakes"-Tremors will clear after several days of abstinence, if there is no permanent alcohol damage to nervous system
All of the above are lingering evidence of alcohol addiction impacts on mules, heart and brain.
Some drinkers experience second stage alcohol withdrawal marked by:
Convulsions-usually occur between 12 and 48 hours of the last drink. There may be loss of consciousness and body control.
Third stage of alcohol withdrawal symptoms involve:
Alcoholic hallucinosis and delirium tremens-auditory, visual and tactile hallucination occur. This period may last for three to four days, during which the detoxifying person is in a severe stage of agitation, is often completely distorted and sleeps little, if at all. The delusions are almost always terrifying and may produce violent behavior and alcohol detoxification.
Special concerns of woman-Alcohol addiction
Female drinkers reach higher blood alcohol levels faster because of less water and more fats in the body and because of differences indigestive enzymes. Women develop alcohol-related disorders such as brain alcohol damage, cirrhosis and cancers at lower level of drinking then men. It is also known that the menstrual cycle affects alcohol metabolism in women.
Thus alcohol addiction effects and causes many alcoholic damages to both the sexes and even in children or teenagers. Thus one should seek right alcoholism counseling and alcohol recovery treatment to come out of alcohol addiction.
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