There are no doping specific side-effects of alcohol abuse known. Biomedical side effects classify only two main options like acute side effects and chronic side effects.
- Acute side effects are…:
…vomiting, inebriation, hyperventilation, alcoholic intoxication, dizziness, limited consciousness, headache, diarrhea, risk of vomiting and aspiration, excitatory state, coma.
- Chronic side effects are…:
…alcoholic hepatitis, limited consciousness, alcoholic intoxication, renal side effects, fatty liver, cirrhosis of the liver, neuronal side effects, risk of apnoea and cardiac arrest.
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Liver specific side-effects depend on the consumed amount of alcohol. A chronic alcohol abuse, for example, is associated with a fatty liver (steatosis hepatis) leading to cirrhosis.
