What are the effects of drinking on children?

Children are absolutely not allowed to drink alcohol because they are still in a stage of physical growth and development. At this time, the various organs in the body are not yet fully developed. If you let your children drink alcohol under this circumstance, many situations will occur. The most critical thing is that it will cause great damage to their brain nerves, which will affect their intellectual development.

1. When the ethanol concentration in the blood reaches 0.05%, the effects of alcohol begin to appear, and excitement and euphoria appear; when the ethanol concentration in the blood reaches 0.1%, people will lose self-control. If it reaches 0.2%, a person will be drunk; if it reaches 0.4%, a person may lose consciousness, fall into a coma, or even be in danger of death.

2. The most important damage that alcohol causes to the human body is the central nervous system. It causes the nervous system to go from excitement to high inhibition, seriously disrupting the normal function of the nervous system. Excessive drinking can also damage the liver, and chronic alcoholism can lead to alcoholic cirrhosis. Chronic alcoholism causes damage to the body in many ways. It can cause multiple neuritis, myocardial disease, cerebral disease, hematopoietic dysfunction, pancreatitis, gastritis and ulcer disease, and may also increase the incidence of hypertension. Long-term and heavy drinking can also endanger reproductive cells and lead to mental retardation in offspring. People who drink frequently also have a significantly increased incidence of laryngeal cancer and digestive tract cancer.

3. Impact on sperm

Long-term drinking is also one of the causes of male infertility. Long-term drinkers are prone to chronic alcohol poisoning. Once chronic alcohol poisoning occurs, the patient will experience testicular atrophy, leading to a decrease in semen quality. Studies have found that it takes at least three months of recovery to recover from a drunken state. Experts believe that men who are planning to have children should wait at least three months after being drunk before conceiving to ensure the health of the fetus.

It should be said that drinking a very small amount of alcohol does not affect the quality of sperm, but excessive drinking will affect sperm survival. Because the main component of alcohol is ethanol, which has an anesthetic effect, it can quickly enter the various tissues and cells of the human body through blood circulation, thus affecting the quality of sperm. If the woman becomes pregnant on that day, there is a very high possibility of giving birth to a deformed baby, which will have irreversible impact on future generations. According to historical records, the poet Li Bai loved drinking so much that all his sons were idiots. Therefore, for the healthy growth of offspring, do not get pregnant after drinking. Drinking large amounts of alcohol not only damages sperm and leads to a decline in male reproductive ability, but also harms the human liver.