What harm does drinking do to minors?

1, brain damage affects learning

As a psychoactive substance, alcohol will also have a strong stimulating effect on people's heart, brain and blood vessels, and will also have a negative impact on people's nervous system. Experts believe that even a small amount of alcohol can easily damage the immature nervous system and brain of minors and easily lead to mental retardation and other symptoms.

It will also distract attention, reduce memory and affect learning; In particular, acute alcoholism caused by heavy drinking is more harmful to minors with underdeveloped nervous system and poor detoxification ability, which will seriously affect the respiratory and circulatory center and lead to death.

2, reduce immunity

Minors drinking alcohol will also lead to decreased immunity, telangiectasia, increased heat dissipation, decreased resistance, and easy to suffer from colds, pneumonia and other diseases.

3. Change the child's personality

Alcohol can also affect the mood and personality of minors, making them easily angry, stubborn and changeable. Over time, it will cause personality defects of teenagers in the period of personality stereotypes.

Step 4 develop bad habits

The desire to drink alcohol can easily make minors develop bad habits such as laziness, lack of hygiene and lack of sense of responsibility. Stimulated by alcohol, people often become manic and delirious.

In addition, teenagers have poor self-control ability and are prone to impulsiveness after drinking. They often like gambling and drinking, causing trouble. Drunkenness may lead to crimes such as stealing forbidden fruit, and even fighting, robbery and rape. Therefore, underage drinking is no longer a simple bad hobby.

Extended data:

Minors are in the stage of growth and development, and the development of various organs of the body is not yet mature, especially the digestive system is still very delicate, sensitive to the stimulation of various foreign bodies, and can not bear too much alcohol and other irritating substances.

However, alcohol with obvious irritation will directly harm organs such as liver and stomach. It will not only stimulate the gastric mucosa, affect the secretion of gastric acid and gastric enzymes and lead to indigestion, but also damage blood vessels, lead to gastritis and gastric ulcer, and sometimes cause acute pancreatitis.

After alcohol is absorbed by the human body, it mainly depends on the liver to detoxify in the body, while the liver cells of teenagers have not completely differentiated. Drinking alcohol can easily cause hepatosplenomegaly, increase blood bilirubin, transaminase and alkaline phosphatase, and affect liver function.

Reference: Ma Guansheng: Aren't minors afraid of "becoming stupid" when drinking? -Xinhuanet