Alcohol Helpful In Brain Trauma
December 31st, 2006
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A new research suggests that people who have drunk moderate amounts of alcohol are more likely to recover from brain trauma.
The researchers nevertheless found clear evidence that in some cases, a certain amount of alcohol helps the brain recover from blunt trauma injury. And those findings, they said, could lead doctors to develop head injury treatments that involve alcohol preparations. They did, however, point out that as many as half of all patients hospitalised with trauma were intoxicated when they were hurt. Alcohol is believed to play a role in about a third of all deaths from injury. And by impairing motor skills, reaction time and judgment, alcohol increases the risk of injury in almost every imaginable way, leading to car crashes, falls, assaults and self-inflicted wounds. [link]
The implications of the research should be clear enough. Alcohol might help in recovering from head trauma but this is no call for drinking and driving. Why hurt yourself in the first place?
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