alcohol detox

Learning the Basics of Alcohol Detox

by admin on April 20, 2010

A drink or two of alcohol on a night out is socialization; drinking a bottle or two daily is alcoholism. Alcoholism is an addiction to alcohol that has sprung out from becoming just a psychological desire for alcohol to a physiologic need. That means if your body detects low alcohol level in the blood, it will manifest symptoms that causes discomfort, or even worse, death. In these cases, an alcohol detox is required.

Alcohol detox is the gradual elimination of alcohol from the body’s blood circulation. During this phase, the body will manifest withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms may be as simple as sweating and hiccups, or as worse as a seizure; no one can tell which symptoms will hit you but that depends on how long you have been an alcoholic. Some other withdrawal symptoms are nausea and vomiting, confusion, and anxiety.

The process begins when you are slowly weaned from alcohol, with the aid of some prescription medicine such as antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs. During the first few days of alcohol detox, you are advised to be admitted in the hospital, under close monitoring of physicians. They need to gauge and observe how worse the withdrawal symptoms are for you. Moreover, you need to be provided with vitamins and mineral supplements since alcohol deplete your body of those.

As supportive measures to your detox alcohol treatment, you may also try other independent therapies such as water therapy. Loading up on water is the best way to help make the alcohol detox at home process faster because it replenishes our lost body fluids due to alcohol dehydration. A calming chamomile tea or a warm milk may help ease other withdrawal symptoms such as insomnia and anxiety. However, the best and most simple remedy is being surrounded by people who support your fight against alcoholism.

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Alcohol Detox-How I Survived

by ChangeYourLife on March 13, 2010

Everyone on earth, sometime or another has had some bad times, and has had stress in their lives.  Some of us can handle these bad times, and then there are the ones, including myself, who turn to a different source.

Unfortunately, these sources can lead up to Alcohol or Drug abuse.  We start out just trying to relieve our stress, and try to feel a little better about what is happening in our life, so we turn to Alcohol or Drugs to fix the problem.

As we continue to drink to relieve our stress, we start to get used to how our problems seem to disappear while under the influence.  At this time our bodies start to become used to this pressure release, and we have now gone from Abuse to now Addition.

I can say this because, this is what happened to me.

I was to weak to face the stress and the problems on my own without a crutch to lean on.  Now, after admitting that this has gone to far, I had to figure out how I was going to get out of this addiction, and face my problems head on and become Sober again.

I was afraid to stop drinking because I was worried about what might happen to me if I should stop.  My body was now so use to the Alcohol and I wondered how I would feel with out it.

Everyone would say, just slow it up a little, cut down a little at a time.  Well, that’s great if your are that type of person.  I, was not, I had to face the fact that I would have to go Cold Turkey or nothing.

So, there I went on my  journey to Sobriety.  I was afraid, but I knew I could do it, not only for myself, but for my family and friends as well.

I started off with the most important thing first, and that was a Positive Attitude .  Now, I have to get through the Alcohol Detox part of my journey.

In the beginning of my journey to Sobriety, yes I was not feeling that great, but drinking every day of my life, I also didn’t feel wonderful by far.  But, as days and weeks went by I felt as if the world was lifted off my shoulders.  I was surviving on my own without my crutch.

As time goes by, your body gets use to NOT having the alcohol in you system, just the same way as it gets use to HAVING alcohol in your system.

Things began to start getting better in my life, and everything started to become easier to deal with.  I learned to deal with my problems being Sober.  When I drank the problems where always there but I just didn’t care due to the alcohol.

Granted, so many people have an Addiction that is far worse than others.  I was fortunate that I could do this Detox on my own, thanks to all the support of my family and my good friends, and most of all, God, that has given me the willingness and the strength to  be able to do this on my own.

You may read my stories, thoughts, and my ideas on how I was able to Survive my Alcohol Detox on my own.

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The Intensity of Alcohol Detox

by admin on February 18, 2010

Alcoholism is an incredibly serious, often underestimated disease.  Anyone willing to break themselves free of the creature, and better their lives deserves an endearing pat on the back.  What a lot of people don’t realize, however, is that alcohol detox, the process during which the body becomes liberated of the drug alcohol, can be an incredibly dangerous feat in itself.

You’ve heard, or perhaps have had the undesirable experience yourself, of battling withdrawal after of ceasing extended heroine or crack cocaine usage; a nightmarish experience, sometimes filled with violent shakes, sweats, vomiting, and mind blowing physical pain.  Most unknowing folks are usually surprised to hear that kicking a heavy alcohol addiction can actually be a lot worse.  Out of heroine, crack, meth, cocaine, and any other hard candy on the corner, alcohol is the only drug that can kill you during your battle to quit it.

Fatalities associated with alcohol withdrawal are largely due to a condition from which only a small percent of abusers suffer; delirium tremens.  The body’s central nervous system contains something called gamma aminobutyric acid receptors which, put simply, control your ability to relax.  Years of alcohol abuse can disrupt the function of these receptors, not allowing the body to fully relax during sobriety.  When this happens, nearly 10% of those with the condition die from massive seizures.

I’d like to say that I’m not writing this to scare you, but I am.  If you’re trying to break your addiction to this drug, I applaud your efforts and wish you the best during your battle, but it’s not one that you should take lightly.  It gets harder and harder to quit the more times you try – not just mentally either.  With every failed attempt to quit, the physical alcohol detox symptoms are almost guaranteed to intensify the next time around.  It is not something that you want to go into alone.  To help increase your chances of beating it the first time around, there are detox facilities available to see to it that you have the most appropriate care for your needs.  Don’t mess around with your life.

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Alcohol Detox: Keep Your New Years Resolution

January 22, 2010

It’s a common New Year’s resolution: “I’m going to quit drinking.” It is actually the 4th most common resolution, coming in after “lose weight”, “quit smoking” and “start a savings account.” Why do so many people make it a resolution? And what is so hard about stopping drinking? First, it is hard because alcohol is [...]

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