A new study published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research explains why people who abuse alcohol are slow to heal wounds..

In the United States, between 20 and 40 percent of hospitalized hospital patients are addicted to alcohol, making this problem particularly relevant to study..

One of the main concerns is the impact of alcohol abuse on wound healing and the risk of postoperative infection in patients who are taken to hospitals after car accidents, fires and shootings..

According to American statistics, postoperative infections increase the length of stay in the hospital by an average of two times, often leading to repeated hospitalizations.. In patients who abuse alcohol, such complications occur twice as often..

A study published by the Research Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Loyola University (Maywood, Illinois) is the first scientific paper to explain this phenomenon..

Using an animal model, the scientists observed a typical binge pattern of 3 days under the influence of alcohol, then 4 days without alcohol, and then again 3 days under the influence of alcohol.. The alcohol level in the experiment met double the threshold allowed in the state for drivers..

Alcohol inhibits macrophages.

Researchers have found that drinking alcohol reduces the number of macrophages, one of the main types of white blood cells that "

Some facts about alcohol abuse:.

• Alcohol abuse is associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, stroke, sudden cardiac death, and myocardial infarction.

• Approximately 79,000 people in the US die every year due to alcoholism - as a result, the country loses 2.3 million person-years.

• The problem of alcoholism cost the United States $224 billion in direct and indirect costs in 2011.

The level of macrophages fell under the influence of alcohol due to a violation of the synthesis of one of the proteins. This protein, which is called macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1? ), “calls” macrophages to enter the damage zone and clean it.

In addition, alcohol interfered with the production of another protein called CRAMP.. This is an antimicrobial protein that is located in the epidermis (outer layer of the skin), destroys bacteria there and signals the immune system to localize and suppress any infection in a timely manner..

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Recall that recently Western publications reported on an interesting analysis conducted by the National Institute of Alcoholism (NIAAA). He showed that about 5,000 American teenagers under the age of 21 die every year as a result of alcohol-related accidents, murders and suicides..

Based on these data, the NIAAA recommended that the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which restricts the sale of alcohol to persons under 21 and saves thousands of lives, not be repealed or revised..

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