DRINKING ALCOHOL

CAN YOU FIGHT INFECTION BY ABSORBING ALCOHOL-

Alcohol-based sanitizers to wash your hands are one thing but drinking alcohol is quite another. Ever since the outburst of COVID-19, advice, and theories have been spreading around social media that drinking alcohol offers defense against the novel coronavirus, in Iran, media has reported how this led to a binge drinking session that eventually left dozens expired. No, drinking alcohol does not protect you from coronavirus infection, the World Health Organisation make sit clear. Alcohol releases chemicals that reduce anxiety, so it may not be harmful to drink in moderation-one or two a day-to relieve stress and boredom, especially for those confined to their homes. Overdrinking, however, can end up weakening the body against a coronavirus, or even deadly the drinker, as it did in the Iran binge. While the novel coronavirus https://youtu.be/2RDUz0C24U4 is still being studied, research on other virus outbreaks has shown that excessive alcohol influence immune function. Excessive drinkers have been seen to be at risk too, in particular, respiratory illness and pneumonia. They also take longer to retrieve from infection. In fact, excessive alcohol can also damage the lungs, which is one of the areas the novel coronavirus affects. Not just COVID-19, even those who have to grab the common flu or a cold should avoid excessive alcohol consumption. There is a fight against drinking too much to fight depression too. While https://youtu.be/2RDUz0C24U4 alcohol's consequences on the central nervous system have been noticed as leading to a reduction of anxiety, this lasts only as long as the alcohol lasts in the blood returns to zero, the nervous system becomes overactive trying to restore the chemicals in the blood to the earlier concentrations. That can leave the drinker anxious as ever.