Eli5 Why shouldn’t I drink alcohol before surgery?
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Alcohol affects a lot of different parts of your body. It can affect how well your blood clots up, its depressant effects that we drink it for slows down your heart rate and nervous system.
Anesthesia that puts you out or numbs you up is only one error away from being a dangerous poison rather than simply putting you out, and if alcohol is already affecting your body in an unpredictable way, that makes it harder to dose properly. As for clotting, well, surgeries usually involve cutting something open, doctors would generally like that to stop bleeding as soon as possible for everyone’s sake.
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