Alcohol, Drugs Poisons Together for Brain, catecholamines, hormones, adrenaline, dopamine

Very many drivers had an accident with a car or motorcycle driving from drinking alcohol. But the researchers found alcohol could actually be a potent drug that protects the brain from injury at the time of the accident itself. A study published in the Archives of Surgery prove it. 

In a study involving 38,000 patients in U.S. hospitals who experienced brain injury between 2000 and 2005, as many as 38 percent of their blood alcohol injuries. But surprisingly, patients whose blood contains alcohol have less injuries than those who never drank alcohol. 

"It just raises more questions than answers. To say that alcohol is good is not easy because alcohol is not good for health. But the alcohol proved to be saving someone from a brain injury is more severe the accident," said one doctor from the General Surgery Residency Educational Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles as quoted from Health. 

Each year about 2 million people in the United States suffered a brain trauma injury, and 50,000 of them died, while another 80,000 permanent brain impairment. Alcohol contributes about 40 percent of car accidents, and half the victims was hospitalized with injuries in the brain. 

"This discovery could help researchers to develop new types of therapy for patients with alcohol injuries and brain trauma, but certainly with a certain alcohol limit," Salim said. 

If you compare the numbers of deaths due to brain injury among those who drank alcohol and what not, were those who drank alcohol mortality rate was 7.7 percent, lower than those who drank no alcohol is 9.7 percent. 

Is not clear why alcohol can help reduce injuries in the brain. But researchers suspect that alcohol can reduce the effects of catecholamines, hormones like adrenaline and dopamine are released the body of post-traumatic accident. 

"Alcohol also helps lower the body temperature will slow death of the body cells and brain and prevent swelling and bleeding caused by heavy impact on the time of the accident," clearly says one professor, professor of neurosurgery at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

But how many levels of alcohol that can save someone from a brain injury remains to be investigated because alcohol consumption is definitely there should be a limit. "There needs to be dose and the proper way to make it as therapy, for giving alcohol after the accident would not be useful,".