Patient's question:
Doctor, my husband is 46 years old. He hates drinking beer and often attends banquets. He usually comes home drunk. Recently, after drinking, he had muscle twitching and often forgot things. One moment he said something, and the next he forgot it. I want to know if there are any symptoms of alcohol poisoning and hypoxic encephalopathy?Doctor's answer:
The issues you raised are also some of the most frustrating and worrying things that wives encounter. Alcohol poisoning is divided into three stages: the excitation stage, the ataxia stage, and the coma stage. Alcohol-related encephalopathy is a chronic form of alcohol poisoning caused by long-term drinking. It is characterized by memory loss, mental confusion, ataxia, and unsteady gait. In very rare cases, it may also manifest as delirium, disorientation in time and space, and a lack of self-awareness of one's own shortcomings.