In recent years, the saying that "a small amount of drinking every day is good for health" has been widely circulated, which may be a basis for people to take medicine and drink for health. But in the medical field, the relationship between drinking and health has always been a controversial topic among scholars.
Drinking "health wine" for the elderly is not worth the loss.
On April 18 this year, The Lancet published a research analysis involving 600,000 people. Researchers believe that although moderate drinking is associated with a reduced risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction, it is also associated with an increased risk of stroke, aneurysm, severe hypertension and heart failure, not to mention the risk of various cancers. As a result, drinking will shorten life expectancy.
The most obvious difference between the old people now and the old people in the past is the life span. With the extension of life span, the function of liver and kidney will naturally decline. In the past, because of the short life span, some people died without the problem of liver and kidney function decline. Now many elderly people find that their liver and kidney function is not good after hospitalization. I didn't know anything about it before, and I didn't have a history of hepatitis or nephritis. Suddenly found that liver and kidney function is not good, so that their medication has great limitations, and even eventually died. Apart from the problem of aging itself, it is hard to say whether there is a history of long-term medication errors. The so-called "three-drug toxicity" is the damage to liver and kidney function.