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Dangers of Alcohol – Save Your Life

Drunk driving is the leading cause of death for young adults, aged 15 to 24 years. In one study, an estimated 6% to 14% of drivers under 21 years of age who were stopped at roadside checkpoints had been drinking. This age-group makes up only one fifth of the licensed drivers in the United States, yet they are involved in almost half of all fatal car crashes.

Alcohol has many side effects including altering your perceptions, dulling your senses, hindering coordination, and blocking memory functions. If you continue to use alcohol heavily, you could experience stomach ailments, sexual impotence, heart and central nervous system damage, loss of appetite, and blackouts.

Many people use alcohol to escape from their problems, or to change their personalities. They have an inability to control their drinking, a high tolerance level for alcohol, and may suffer problems at work or in school as a result. If your family and friends are concerned about your problem, you should be too. It is a sad fact that an estimated 6.6 million children under the age of 18 live in households with at least one alcoholic parent.

Injury is a type of hazard which can be associated with alcohol use. Injury is different from violence in that injury is most often accidental. Types of accidental injuries caused by alcohol abuse or addiction include burns, injury from a car or boating accident (caused by drunk driving), drowning, and injury from falling.

Violence is commonly associated with intense alcohol use. Although not all people experience violence as a result of alcohol use, this problem is common among those who are heavily intoxicated. Violent acts may include abuse of family members, assault, and homicide. In order to prevent such occurrences, many people seek out help for alcohol addiction from drug and alcohol rehab centers.

There are no two ways about it. Aznd no, it is not alright to take ‘just a little drink’ when pregnant. The alcohol in your blood can get carried into the baby’s bloodstream causing birth difficulties, abnormalities and even a miscarriage. Plus, if you are planning to conceive, it is unclear how early into the pregnancy you must stop drinking. So it is best if you abstain from alcohol when planning a pregnancy, when pregnant and when breast feeding. The best gift you can give your child is that of good health.

Abuse of alcohol can also lead to malnutrition and lowered resistance to disease, which presents an entirely new set of problems, not only to your looks but your health as well. No one can say for sure, but abstinence may be one of the ways a woman can stay healthier and looking younger longer. Besides, who needs pimples?

When a person takes a drink of alcohol, ethanol (the chemical name for drinkable alcohol) irritates the stomach lining, releasing acids. A small amount is broken down chemically, but most of the alcohol heads toward the small intestine through an opening called the pyloric valve. Drinking too much alcohol too quickly can cause the valve to swell and close, causing vomiting.

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Care to take for Zits

Inside the pore of the face are sebaceous glands which produce sebum. When the outer layers of skin shed, the dead skin cells left behind may become ‘glued’ together by the sebum. This causes a blockage in the pore, especially when the skin becomes thicker at puberty. The sebaceous glands produce more sebum which builds up behind the blockage, and this sebum harbours various bacteria including the species Propionibacterium acnes. This inflammation is called zit or pimple or acne.

Care before treating a Zit
Before treating a zit, identify the type of blemish. A surface-level eruption will be more receptive to topical treatmant than a deeper cyst, which will appear as faint red blemish and be sensitive and even painful to the touch. With care, you can use the steps below to get rid of a superficial zit within 1-2 days; these treatments are also practical when dealing with cysts, which may also need more extreme treatments such as cortizone injections.

Don’t overwash or overscrub a zit. Overzealous cleansing will only strip your skin of the natural oils it needs to be healthy. This leaves your pores unprotected and susceptible to getting a zit, and will also irritate a zit that’s already there. To get rid of a zit, wash it (don’t scrub) with a gentle cleanser no more than twice a day and moisturize your skin afterwards.

Steps for popping out the Zit
Wash you hand thoroughly with soap or a mild cleanser.
Sterilize the needle. There are a number of different ways you can sterilize the needle including heating over an open flame. This will ensure that any bacterial residing on the needle is killed.
Gently pierce the zit and apply pressure to the surrounding skin to squeeze the zit and extract any liquid from it.
Once the zit is complete popped and the extracted waste cleaned up, use a good amount of gauze to apply small amounts of hydrogen peroxide to clean the surface where the pimple used to reside.
Think of this exercise as a minor operation you just performed on yourself.

Care for Zit
People with oily skin should choose a gel based product, those with dry skin should choose a cream.
If you are like most people and have combination skin, choose the product that best works with the afflicted area.
The more sensitive your skin, the lower concentration of active ingredient you will need.
Some mild creams can be used as a preventative measure, but most acne creams are too harsh to be used before you see or feel a zit.
If the acne is excessively painful, or if it becomes painful after trying an OTC product, try taking an anti-inflammatory medication like ibuprofen and get to a doctor ASAP.
If your skin has large pustules that appear in clusters, if they are painful, if your acne causes scars, or if you can’t seem to get rid of a blemish (it starts to go away only to reappear just when you thought it was gone), your acne may require treatment by a doctor.

 Rachel Broune writes articles for Zit Home Remedies. He also writes for Home Remedies for Zit and Home Remedies for pimples? 

Author: Rachel Broune

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