What is Neuropathy

Alcoholic neuropathy is a kind of neuropathy or nerve damage that is usually found among those who are heavy drinkers continuously for a minimum of 10 years. Studies show that the years of alcohol abuse depletes the body of vital nutrients that cause the damage of nerves.

The symptoms of alcoholic neuropathy is numbness of hands or feet or both, shooting pain from the limbs, weight loss, dizziness, shortness of breath and sometimes temporary paralysis.

Patients who are diagnosed with alcoholic neuropathy are prescribed with pain management medicines and multivitamins to replenish the loss of vitamins because of excessive alcohol intake. Patients are also strictly prohibited in continuing with drinking alcoholic drinks.

Alcoholic neuropathy is the physical effect of years of alcoholism. We have often heard of the effects of alcoholism on the psychological and social lives of the patients but we rarely hear about the physical effects which target directly the patients’ neurons.