0
Can drinking too much alcohol lead to broken blood vessels on one's face?
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
The short answer is 'yes', but only if you are a severe, long-term alcoholics with advanced liver damage (cirrhosis). For the vast majority of drinkers, including most alcoholics, it is a myth that broken facial veins are caused by their alcohol consumption. For example... www.skincarecentre.ca/enhancing_your_skin/excessive_facial_veins_and_redness.htm Broken veins are not really broken. They are permanently dilated small vessels in your skin. They are sometimes called spider veins, and have the medical name 'telengectasia'. Broken veins have many causes including excessive exposure to the sun or cold, hormonal changes during pregnancy and genetic factors. Alcohol does cause short term facial blushing (generalized redness), especial in some racial groups, due to dilation of capillaries in the facial skin, but this does not lead to permanent broken veins. When the liver is severely damaged (whether by advanced Alcoholism, hepatitis or toxins), it may produce chemical changes in the blood that lead to spider veins in the facial skin. But by then, red veins on your nose will be the least of your problems.
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Short term effects on blood vessels for drinking alcohol?
Alcohol acts as a vasodilator, increasing the diameter of blood vessels.
What spots are red?
broken blood vessels broken blood vessels
Because alcohol dilates blood vessels a person who goes outside in cold weather after drinking risk?
hypothermia
How alcohol affects blood vessels?
Long term alcohol use causes the blood vessels to become more fragile and prone to rupture. Alcoholics have a much higher risk of stroke, aneurysms esophageal varicies and bleeding disorders.
What is peticea?
Superficial Broken blood vessels
What items influence a person's blood alcohol level?
Basically, drinking alcohol influences a persons blood alcohol level. Also drinking water decreases it.
What plugs broken blood vessels to avoid excessure bleeding?
blood
It plugs broken blood vessels to avoid excessive bleeding?
blood clot
Will drinking alcohol affect blood pressure?
Keep in mind that alcohol contains calories and may contribute to unwanted weight gain - a risk factor for high blood pressure. Also, alcohol can interfere with the effectiveness and increase the side effects of some blood pressure medications.
What are the particles which control blood loss from broken vessels?
Platelets
What causes broken blood vessels?
Suddenly angry and hypertension.
If you have had blood clots years ago and now regularly drink alcohol are you more likely to get them again if you stop drinking as it may thicken the blood?
No. That is a myth. Drinking is more likely to create vascular problems than to prevent them. The thickness of your blood varies only a tiny bit, usually with dehydration (which can be caused by alcohol), and has little to do with blood clots anyway, which are caused by irritation of the interior surface of the blood vessels that causes them to release clotting enzymes. Again, this can be caused by alcohol. Quitting drinking and smoking are the two best things you can do for your overall health.
