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[2] [3] Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. [4] [5] Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several days. [4] This is commonly accompanied by weakness, abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, and mild vomiting. [6] [5] [7] Some people develop a skin rash with rose colored spots. [5]
The potential of injuring oneself or others can be increased after consuming alcohol due to the certain short term effects related to the substance such as lack of coordination, blurred vision, and slower reflexes to name a few. [95] Due to these effects the most common injuries include head, fall, and vehicle-related injuries.
(Bonus health history fact: The phrase “hair of the dog” is short for the adage “the hair of the dog that bit you,” and supposedly comes from the old belief that you can heal an ailment by ...
People affected by this condition show greater reduction in psychomotor functions on alcohol consumption than those without. [10] Many cases of alcohol-induced respiratory reactions, which involve rhinitis and worsening of asthma, develop within 1–60 minutes of drinking alcohol and are due to the same causes as flush reactions. [11]
A growing body of evidence has shown links between cancer and drinking alcohol. In a warning Friday, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said cancer risk increases with the number of drinks, but ...
Reference dose for methanol is 0.5 mg/kg/day. [4] Toxic effects take hours to start, and effective antidotes, like ethanol, can often prevent permanent damage. [2] Because of its similarities in both appearance and odor to ethanol (the alcohol in beverages), it is difficult to differentiate between the two.
Remarkably, inhaled isopropyl alcohol can be used to provide nausea and vomiting relief. [39] [40] Alcohol intolerance and alcohol allergy, while often confused due to their overlapping symptoms, have distinct biological mechanisms. Alcohol intolerance is mainly due to genetic variations that affect the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2). [24]
Ty21a is a live attenuated bacterial vaccine that protects against typhoid.First licensed in Europe in 1983 and in the United States in 1989, it is an orally administered, live-attenuated Ty2 strain of S. Typhi in which multiple genes, including the genes responsible for the production of Vi, have been deleted so as to render it harmless but nevertheless immunogenic.