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Excessive drinking can increase your risk of serious health problems, including:
Cancers
Alcohol abuse is the second biggest risk factor for mouth and throat cancers and is also implicated in cirrhosis of the liver which develops to liver cancer.
Brain damage
Alcohol abuse can cause you to have blackouts, anxious or become forgetful. Long term drinking can result in permanent brain damage and alcoholism.
Heart conditions
Alcohol can cause hypertension which can increase your chances of having a stroke. It also weakens heart muscles and causes heart failure. Prolonged abuse of alcohol can cause irregular heart beat and may lead to sudden death.
Liver failure
Alcohol binging causes fat deposits in the liver and over time, the liver could become inflamed causing alcoholic hepatitis, which can result in liver failure and death.
Lung infections
Drinking a lot of alcohol predisposes you to lung infections, lung collapse and pneumonia.
Kidney failure
Heavy drinkers are at risk of developing chronic kidney diseases.
Stomach and Intestinal problems
Binge drinking leads to stomach ulcers, bleeding and cancers and can also affect your body’s ability to absorb nutrients and vitamins.
Fertility
Over dose of alcohol in men leads to lowered libido or sex drive while in women, it gives rise to infertility. Drinking alcohol while pregnant can lead to a life threatening condition known as foetal alcohol syndrome.
Loss of bone density
Alcohol interferes with body’s ability to absorb calcium. This leads to loss of bone density (osteoporosis)
