The damage alcohol can do to your skin

damage alcohol can do to your skin – Alcohol is a vasodilating agent, meaning that when ingested, it helps blood vessels to open. One of the reasons why many people get red spots on their skin after ingesting it. This happens, therefore, the regulation of vascularization to the control of the brain, tends to fail with the ingestion of alcohol, even occasionally.

The damage alcohol can do to your skin

The liver is responsible for metabolizing this drug, an organ, highly injured, developing hepatic steatosis, which progresses to cirrhosis and cancer.

The effects of alcohol abuse are diverse and extremely harmful to organisms, such as changing the intestinal microbiota, which directly interferes with the appearance of organs. Problems when they don’t appear on the skin instantly, their symptoms act from the inside out.

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Its most common symptoms that the consumption of alcoholic beverages can damage the skin are: premature aging, rosacea, dryness, psoriasis, dermatitis (if you already have it, there may be an alarming worsening), general dehydration, micro inflammation, seborrheic dermatitis, sensitivity, edema, swelling, dark circles, expression lines, tired appearance, in addition to reducing immunity, unbalancing hormones, causing damage to cells and altering insulin levels in the body.

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It is important to take care of body hydration by increasing water intake. The use of antioxidants and moisturizers on the skin is necessary to repair the inflammatory process caused by alcohol. Another important measure is to regularize the intestinal microbiota and the skin microbiota with the use of specific probiotics, it is necessary to suspend the use of alcohol in order to have a healthier body.

If alcohol intake has become a trigger to trigger some dermatological disease, the recommendation is to seek a dermatologist to adapt to the care and possible use of future medications. And a doctor should also be consulted since if you can have problems in other organs due to alcohol intake, a check-up is indicated.

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