On April 6, 2022, a patient called anxiously.
I asked her if she needed help. She said: “She doesn’t need any help and her body has been conditioned pretty well! Her husband needs help!
I asked her to speak slowly and I would do my best to help. She said: Her husband has a problem with quitting drinking and needs to consult me.
I said: As a doctor, I have never advocated compulsory abstinence and sudden abstinence.
She said: It’s not that he was forced to quit drinking, but that he drinks more than a pound a day! If he drank at home, he had to buy wine secretly. He controlled his money and property, so he bought wine on credit. The key is to drink alcohol, hallucinations, always say that neighbors are bad people, people who are not used to seeing them on the road are bad people, and call the police to ask the police to arrest people. His behavior not only affected his family, but also affected certain social groups, so his family sent him to a hospital to stop drinking. During the period of abstinence, both lower extremities edema, anemia, and abnormal vital signs occurred, and the doctor recommended discharge or transfer.
This situation presents a dilemma for the family, the cliff on the left and the ridge on the right!
Abstain from drinking and experience abnormal physical signs. If you do not quit drinking, it will affect your normal family life and social life.
This seeker, therefore asking for my opinion.
I say that for an alcoholic, alcohol is already a part of his life and life. Suddenly quitting drinking is tantamount to suspending his life and life, and he can only use a relatively compromise method.
That is: alcoholics, limit alcohol consumption, and family members cannot forcibly stop drinking.
Such a simple problem, as the parties and the families involved, is not easy to deal with, often resulting in violent conflicts and even life-threatening.
The cases in this article are not yet typical.
I would like to say to my alcoholic friends: Cherish life, cherish family, drink in moderation, drink healthily. When drinking alcohol does not cause liver and kidney function damage, and does not cause abnormal blood sugar, blood lipids, and blood pressure, you can limit alcohol consumption and drink some health wine. When there is an abnormality in physical health, it is necessary to stop drinking. It is really difficult to quit drinking, so drink a small amount of alcohol. It is necessary to understand the concern and worry of family members about their physical condition, and not to drink alcohol indiscriminately, to deteriorate their own health, and to destroy a beautiful family!
Families must also fully understand a drinker’s love and reluctance to drink, forcing melons are not sweet, and forcibly quitting alcohol is just as harmful!
The best way for an alcoholic to quit drinking is to understand, love, and compromise. It is more feasible to reduce drinking silently and slowly, be full of tenderness and care, and provide appropriate high-quality wine sources, or targeted Chinese medicine bubble wine.
There have been many family tragedies caused by drinking and quitting drinking. I hope more and more people will pay attention to this problem and come up with more practical solutions!