Hit with a bottle: 10 people died from alcohol poisoning in the Orenburg region

Content:

1. Signs indicating severe intoxication
2. What to do in case of severe alcohol intoxication with vomiting
3. Prohibitions to remember
4. How to treat alcohol poisoning with vomiting in a narcological hospital
5. What to do after overcoming alcohol poisoning with vomiting on your own

Any alcoholic drink (even with a low ethanol content) can cause acute intoxication
. Therefore, you should not drink alcohol. People who understand what ethyl alcohol does to internal organs and metabolic processes often decide to give it up forever. And this is the only right decision that can be made regarding strong drinks.

Very often, after a feast, alcohol intoxication and vomiting occur, which does not stop for a long time. It is very dangerous. Treatment of such poisoning at home is not always possible. But for fear of publicity about their problem, those who have been poisoned prefer to hush up the disease. You can't do that.

It is unacceptable to wait for your health to stabilize on its own, since the desired outcome may not occur. Everyone should know: very severe vomiting due to alcohol poisoning is an indication for receiving qualified drug treatment.

Features of intoxication pain

Cranialgia due to poisoning of the body has its own specific manifestations. Knowledge of these nuances helps the diagnostician to pay attention to additional, clarifying data that is important for establishing the correct diagnosis and selecting the most appropriate therapy.

Pain sensations in acute poisoning differ in phases:

• The body reacts to reaching and overcoming the toxicity threshold with the appearance of a pronounced pulsation and a feeling of fullness.
• The peak of toxic status is determined by a feeling of pressure inside. Patients feel as if their head is “splitting” or “bursting.” At this moment it is difficult to make any decisions and think.
• After the removal of poisons from the blood, tissues and organs, cranialgia subsides, its intensity decreases, and it becomes periodic, most often painful.

Chronic intoxication is characterized by headache with specific characteristics.

It occurs periodically under the influence of:

• Strong mental and physical stress.
• Unfavorable environmental factors: wind, changes in atmospheric pressure and temperature, excess humidity or dryness.
• In case of exacerbation of the causative pathology.

Painful sensations manifest themselves:

• Unexpressed intensity.
• Wandering localization - temporal pain moves to the occipital, parietal and frontal regions.
• One-sided, or involve several zones, they are diffuse, diffuse in nature.

Chronic cranialgia in most cases goes away after:

• recreation;
• sleep;
• ventilation of the room;
• soothing conversations, relaxing music;
• a long walk in the fresh air.

In the acute case, these measures are ineffective and require the use of medication or another type of treatment.

Signs indicating severe intoxication

Symptoms of alcohol poisoning and vomiting appear a few hours after drinking or the next day. Narcologists often observe a reflex eruption of stomach contents with inclusions of blood. Bloody impurities indicate severe irritation of the gastrointestinal mucous membranes with alcohol or internal bleeding. Both reasons are very dangerous.

Ailments that occur the morning after drinking demonstrate an increase in the concentration of toxic acetaldehyde in the blood. The level of this component increases gradually. The more a person drinks, the worse his health will be.

There is no need to think that poisoning after drinking alcohol is safe. This is wrong. Of course, if a person does not have alcohol addiction and chronic diseases, he will most likely be able to recover on his own. However, no one can give such a guarantee. Refusal to receive medical advice is always bringing oneself closer to serious violations.

It is especially important to consult with a narcologist if, after drinking, you experience:

• nausea, vomiting;
• unproductive vomiting, due to which a large amount of saliva is released, it is not possible to drink even ordinary water;
• severe headaches;
• constant thirst;
• feeling of “goosebumps” running over the skin, numbness of the limbs;
• difficulties with orientation in space;
• a sharp increase or, conversely, decrease in blood pressure;
• gradual decline of basic neurological reflexes.

If vomiting that develops due to alcohol poisoning is very severe, a life-threatening disruption of the heart rhythm may occur. The person also runs the risk of falling into a coma and dying.

What to do in case of severe alcohol intoxication with vomiting

The first thing you need to do is call a narcologist to your home.

This service can be obtained for money at a private narcology clinic. After contacting her, no one will register you.

Upon arrival to the patient, the doctor will immediately carry out the necessary therapeutic and preventive measures. But, if the patient’s condition causes concern, he will be taken to the hospital. It is very important that the poisoned person remains conscious throughout the entire treatment.

While the doctor is on the way, it is necessary to provide first aid to the person. To do this you should:

1. Lay him on his left side.
   This simple technique will prevent vomit from entering the respiratory tract.
2. Unfasten the top buttons of your clothes and open the window.
   Then it will become easier for the addict to breathe.
3. In case of fainting, place a cotton ball soaked in ammonia to the drinker’s nose.
   After inhaling ammonia vapors, he will come to his senses.
4. Perform gastric lavage.
   This measure can only be used when treating people who are conscious and behaving adequately. A good solution for washing is a weak (caustic pink) solution of potassium permanganate. It must be drunk in an amount of at least one liter, and then pressed with your fingers on the root of the tongue. Some people think that the rich pink shade of the composition is more effective. This is wrong. If the concentration of potassium permanganate is high, a burn will occur to the mucous membranes of the pharynx, stomach, and intestines.
5. Apply cold to the occipital area.
   Thanks to this, the gag reflex becomes less pronounced. It is clear that not every apartment has ice, so you need to improvise. Anything frozen or foods taken out of the refrigerator can be used as a compress.

Despite the simplicity of the methods listed, they are effective. Therefore, there is no need to forget about them.

It happens that the volume of alcohol taken is so high that a person loses consciousness. His heart stops. There is no need to despair. You should immediately begin chest compressions and artificial respiration. If resuscitation measures are not carried out, the poisoned person will die without waiting for the drug treatment ambulance.

Prohibitions to remember

All of the above methods of providing first aid to people with alcohol intoxication should be used while the doctor is on the way. Imagining oneself as a luminary of science and trying to cure a person with severe poisoning is very risky. There is no need to give the patient medication. The only exceptions are sorbents that speed up the elimination of alcohol. But before using them, you should carefully read the information in the instructions.

Many drugs cannot be combined with ethyl alcohol. But only doctors know about this. It turns out that, wanting to alleviate the suffering of an alcohol addict, relatives can harm him. Illiterate drug correction can even lead to failure of vital organs. This is deadly.

It is forbidden to give a person a hangover

the day after the feast. Drinking alcohol does make you feel better for a while, but it increases the level of intoxication. This means that the toxic load on the body becomes more pronounced. Then it will take a very long time to recover.

Doctors prohibit dousing a person who has taken a large amount of alcohol with ice water or steaming them in a sauna or bathhouse. All these are extreme methods of traditional treatment. Often, it is after their implementation that cardiac failure begins. It is better to call a narcologist and wait for his arrival.

Attention! Attempts to lavage the stomach of a person who is in a semi-conscious or unconscious state lead to suffocation with vomit and instant death. You cannot induce vomiting if the patient loses consciousness.

What poisoned the residents of the Orenburg region

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The press service of the regional governor Denis Pasler reported the death of 10 people as a result of alcohol poisoning.

“In several settlements in the eastern Orenburg region, cases of severe poisoning with surrogate alcohol have been recorded. Ten people have died over the past 24 hours, another is in intensive care. According to preliminary information, even a small amount of alcohol consumed is fatal. It was sold in different containers and in different places,” the report says.

Earlier, the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported the death of nine people who were poisoned by ethanol.

“The investigation established that in the period from October 6 to October 7, 2021, at their place of residence in the village of Krasnochabansky, Dombarovsky district, and in the inpatient department of the hospital, a total of nine people aged from 36 to 73 years died with a preliminary diagnosis of “toxic effects of ethanol,” - stated in a statement from the press service of the Investigative Committee.

Bottle hit

Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexey Sukhorukov

According to investigators, the victims of the bootleggers were five residents of the Dombarovsky district and four residents of the Yasnensky urban district. Among those poisoned were two men born in 1980 and 1984 and a woman born in 1953.

How to treat alcohol poisoning with vomiting in a narcological hospital

The best place to combat acute alcohol intoxication is an inpatient drug clinic. Here the patient can undergo highly effective detox therapy. During it, cleansing droppers are placed, which:

• bind and remove toxins;
• wash away alcohol;
• restore healthy water and electrolyte balance;
• normalize acid-base balance;
• support the kidneys, liver, heart, brain.

After drips, the condition of the poisoned person improves quite quickly. In addition to these, narcologists perform various physical procedures. This can be intravenous laser blood purification, xenon therapy, intestinal lavage, plasmapheresis.

Before sending the patient home, the narcologist talks about the rules that must be followed in the near future in order to fully recover. When working with people dependent on alcohol, psychotherapy sessions are conducted. During them, techniques are used to convince the patient of the need for coding.

Treatment of headaches due to intoxication

Pain syndrome in case of poisoning should be eliminated by removing toxins from the body. Painkillers and non-drug methods of reducing headaches in this case do not bring the desired effect.

Troubleshooting should only be done by a qualified professional. In most cases, symptoms require the patient to remain in a hospital setting. Therapeutic measures include the use of detoxification (neutralizing poisons) agents. As a rule, they are administered intravenously using a dropper. Solutions can be administered once, or applied as a course. The most commonly used is Reosorbilact,

Reamberin, Hemodez and other drugs. Multivitamin complexes, glucose, and broad-spectrum antidotes (sodium thiosulfate, Unithiol) are indicated as additional components of detoxification therapy.

The patient is also prescribed large amounts of liquid fluids. Infusions of raspberry, linden, and rosehip are especially useful. Treatment of headaches due to intoxication with such an integrated approach turns out to be the most effective.

What to do after overcoming alcohol poisoning with vomiting on your own

If a person never consulted a doctor, and his health gradually became normal, this does not mean that he is completely healthy. Toxic metabolites of ethanol are eliminated slowly. While they circulate with the bloodstream, the internal organs have a hard time.

To support the body, you should drink a lot of water, fruit drinks, and herbal teas. It is important to take the absorbent for several days. Even regular activated carbon will do.

Meals should be light and balanced. Doctors recommend focusing on:

• non-acidic vegetables and fruits;
• low-fat chicken broth;
• lactic acid products.

In conclusion, we will answer the question: is it worth treating alcohol intoxication with vomiting on your own? No, if a person’s health is important. Sometimes even with not very severe intoxication, consequences arise that you have to deal with for the rest of your life. Stomach ulcers, pathologies of the nervous system, pancreatitis, encephalopathy are quite common complications of the feast. Don't allow them to develop. If you haven’t calculated the dose of alcohol during a feast, be sure to undergo treatment under the supervision of a narcologist.

What did the authorities do after the emergency?

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The investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee for the Orenburg Region have opened two criminal cases under Part 3 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - production and sale of goods that do not meet safety requirements, resulting in the death of more than two persons through negligence.

In the places where the victims allegedly bought alcohol, searches were carried out, product samples were confiscated, and the necessary examinations were ordered.

After the mass poisoning, Orenburg authorities issued an emergency warning to residents of the region.

“I urge all residents of the Orenburg region, especially the eastern one, to refrain from purchasing and consuming unlicensed drinks. The price of this is your life,” says the address to residents from the head of the region, Denis Pasler.

The governor also instructed the heads of the territories of the eastern Orenburg region to take urgent measures to inform the population about the inadmissibility of purchasing and consuming illegal alcoholic beverages and to urgently work on these issues with trade organizations in municipalities.

Bottle hit

Photo: IZVESTIA/Konstantin Kokoshkin

“Law enforcement agencies are conducting investigative actions. The tasks of municipalities are to join this work and protect Orenburg residents from new tragic cases,” he emphasized.

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