Alcohol encephalopathy is a severe brain damage, which is accompanied by alcohol psychoses and develops, as a rule, at the final stage of alcoholism. Currently, alcohol encephalopathy is understood as a group of various diseases that have both somatic and neurological manifestations.
Alcoholic encephalopathy is treated in a narcological hospital. Complex and long -term treatment. It is associated with the intake of a large number of vitamins and nootropics. In addition, it is imperative to carry out the therapy of numerous diseases of the internal organs. Often to restore previous mental abilities is impossible. But there are medical organizations such as the Marshak narcological clinic fighting the disease in each individual case. Professionals of this narcological clinic have a lot of many years of experience in the treatment of alcohol and drug addiction. At their disposal is all the necessary equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of even the most severe specialized diseases, including different types of alcoholic encephalopathies.
There are several types of alcohol encephalopathy:
Acute alcohol encephalopathy.
Chronic alcohol encephalopathy.
Transition forms of alcoholic encephalopathy.
Prodromal period.
Alcoholic encephalopathy does not develop immediately. As a rule, she is preceded by a prodromal period lasting from two weeks to a year. During this period, there is a gradual increase in the symptoms listed below.
Multi -day and multi -month drunkenness.
Frequent alcoholic poisoning and the appearance of cases of white fever.
The presence of violations in the work of internal organs related to alcohol intake.
Loss of appetite – often before the development of alcoholic encephalopathy, patients completely lose their appetite. Sometimes food rejection occurs. All this is accompanied by vomiting, nausea, abdominal pain, heartburn, diarrhea and constipation, replacing each other.
A sharp weight loss.
Sleep disturbance – patients practically stop sleeping.
General weakness.
Feeling of goosebumps in the body.
Trembling limbs and cramps.
Violation of coordination of movements.
Dizziness.
Tachycardia (rapid heartbeat).
A feeling of lack of air.
Lomota, numbness and pain in the body.
It is worth noting that there are various kinds of provoking factors significantly accelerating the process of development of the disease. Such factors include.
Drinking alcoholic surrogates and poor -quality alcohol.
Multi -day and multi -month drunkenness.
Frequent alcoholic poisoning and the appearance of cases of white fever.
Avitaminosis.
Weight loss.
Types of alcoholic encephalopathy.
Encephalopathy of Gai-Wright
This is the most common alcoholic encephalopathy. Most often, she gets sick of middle -aged men. The disease begins with a white fever, but because of the weakness of the patients, they lie in bed and make only monotonous movements with the hands in which there is an imitation of professional activity.
The patient loses contact with the environment, his consciousness is confused or absent. The patient’s speech reflects only his internal experiences bordering psychosis. Gradually, the patient’s consciousness disappears in general, and he falls into a state of coma. The body practically ceases to respond to reflexes.
Korsakovsky psychosis
This type of alcohol encephalopathy develops mainly in women. In this case, the patient ceases to memorize current events, but at the same time he remembers the events that took place with him for a long time. The patient knows his name and remembers himself. The overall sensitivity of the body decreases, the general weakness and atrophy of the muscles is noted.
Alcoholic pseudoral
This type of alcohol encephalopathy usually develops in middle -aged men and older. In patients, dementia develops, memory decreases and obsessive ideas and drives appear, the mood is constantly increased. The trembling of the facial muscles and the tip of the tongue is characteristic. The chronic version of this encephalopathy ends with strong dementia.
It must be remembered that it is almost impossible to begin treatment of alcoholism at this stage of the disease, since the changes that occurred in the patient’s brain are already irreversible.
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