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Children's alcoholism

Children's alcoholism is a complex psychological and physiological dependence, adversely affects the health of a growing organism, and the risk of degradation increases markedly. Regardless of such factors as social, to fight this problem there are no effective means. Attitudes towards alcohol largely based on the fact that his presence inevitably it trying to see the upside, and this attitude on the negative impact on child psyche and perception.

Children who constantly consume alcohol, quickly acquire the corresponding relationship. They only need to drink 3-4 times in one month. There are negative changes:

  • Slowing growth function.
  • Personality degraded.
  • Quickly there is a dependence on alcohol.
  • Mental disturbances occur.
  • Destroyed internal organs.
  • Sexual development goes wrong or slows down.

In children, all of these processes occur much faster than adults or adolescents. Children become alcoholics very quickly. Such a bad habit, like alcoholism, is a type of substance abuse.

Statistics shows the process of alcohol abuse in 75 % of cases develop up to 20 years. 46% of the cases involve Teens. The growth of the disease in Russia, especially covers adolescence. The results of statistics and surveys showed that 56% of those studying in grades 8-10, tried harmful drinks, and most students 12-13 years old already have experience of the use and even purchase of this product.

Only 6% of the total number of high school students resist the temptation, while the rest drink harmful drink with the regularity of a different sort. About 30% of young people do it weekly. It is a pretty dismal performance, they say that the danger of development of dependence increases all the time.

The diagnosis is usually installed in several ways. Among them:

  • By alcohol lost the gag reaction.
  • The lack of control of amounts drunk.
  • Retrograde amnesia in partial form.
  • The development of abstinence syndrome.
  • The binge drinking type.

At the same time dramatically reduced the average age of juveniles abusing alcohol. Now it has reached 14 - 11. Among them are beer drinkers.

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The causes of child alcoholism

The cause of the children of alcoholism is largely based on psychology. Children's variety includes the following:

  • the lack of attention from adults and parents;
  • excessive pressure from parents;
  • an attempt therefore to move away from problems;
  • the presence of nearby examples, such as alcoholic parents;
  • attempt to assert themselves, a misconception that it makes the child an adult;
  • the bad influence of the company;
  • a surplus of free time.

The challenges outlined above relate to the adolescent and children's alcoholism. The majority of this category is the habit of alcohol appears literally in the womb of mothers, if a woman allows herself to alcohol. Alcohol has the ability to be in the blood of the foetus by penetrating back through the placenta. Develops the danger of fatal alcohol syndrome. Appear accompanying symptoms, among them anomalies of the maxillofacial region:

  • the elongated shape of the face,
  • zygomatic arch with hypoplasia,
  • low forehead,
  • underdevelopment of the bones of the chin,
  • wrong the lower jaw,
  • deformed thorax, length of stop, weak extension of the elbow joints, abnormal position of fingers, hip joints, underdeveloped,

  • strabismus, narrow shape of the eye slits, upper eyelid drooping,
  • often the head is compacted, the head grows a little,
  • too small nose, with saddle type with short nose,
  • the upper lip is shortened, cleft lip, abnormal structure of the sky – the so-called "cleft palate"
  • the body weight of the newborn is low,
  • physical development goes wrong,
  • growth is delayed, or, on the contrary, is too high
  • the nervous system develops incorrectly are diagnosed with microcephaly (underdevelopment of the brain),
  • "spina bifida",
  • heart disease, disorders ofgenital-anal values, genitals and joints.

The appearance of bad habits many causes and risk factors. It is believed that social status has little impact on addiction harmful values. But in poor families, in the lower level of life, similar habits appear spontaneously, seem to be one of the signs belonging to the poor strata of society. At high abundance, the risk is not as great. Slightly better things with good genetics, although in this case such a danger exists. It is advisable to show the child a life of good, avoiding bad companies, feasts in the family circle, notations. It makes no sense to read to your child the rules that adults do not respect – in this case, will not help any arguments.

Heredity is a complex science. Genetics operates that genes that irrevocably determines the propensity to drunkenness, does not exist. Is responsible for this large group of factors. There is always the opportunity to instill in your child the habit at all to have an opinion, to judge the situation adequately.

The consequences of child alcoholism

The consequences of child alcoholism are bespovorotno, because health will never become standard. Among the dangerous prospects:

  • gastrointestinal disorders – their appearance leads to the inability of children to eat. They usually drink on the sly, eating at one time very large portions. It carries the risk of gastritis, inflammation of the esophagus. Dramatically develop the disease of liver, pancreas;

  • appear diseases of the cardiovascular system, diagnose tachycardia, varicose veins, and increases blood pressure, there is an arrhythmia, myocardiodystrophy, etc.

  • immunity is markedly reduced;
  • a permanent state of deficiency;

  • we can say, about the most dangerous and irreversible consequence of children's alcoholism – dysfunctions of the brain and the Central nervous system lockup with the General development levels of intelligence, memory, decline of logical and abstract kinds of thinking. Personality irreversibly degraded, develop incurable mental disorders.

Prevention of children's alcoholism

Prevention of children's alcoholism is required in fullvolume. Alcoholism is a very dangerous kind of addiction. It includes a set of bad habits, the base of which is alcohol abuse. The result is deteriorating health, lifestyle decreases. Destroys the functioning of the body. Pathogenic consequences of a lot.

You need to prevent disease, starting with prevention. Prevention of children's alcoholism includes such factors of protection:

  • happy family;
  • material prosperity;
  • training in the adoption of social norms;
  • regular medical examination;
  • living in a safe area;
  • a sufficient level of self-esteem;
  • due to develop positive qualities of character.

Prevention of children's alcoholism is to eliminate risk factors and strengthening protective factors.

Early diagnosed alcoholism, the child can quickly be cured with appropriate measures. It is important to take care of proper preventive measures, to provide children with the opportunity to find a suitable hobby – Hiking in the section, school, etc. will be required to achieve the exclusion of alcohol from sale, to give to understand that you can live without this product. When the conscious refusal adults alcohol children's alcoholism will decline and cease to provide the danger.