How to survive brain trauma? Drink up! October 9, 2009
Posted by Jolie McCullough in study.Tags: alcohol, health research, trauma
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Courtesy of MedicineWorld.org
It seems like it happens all the time. There is a tragic car accident involving a drunk driver and a young teenager or a family. The drunk driver lives, and the others don’t ever seem to make it.
There have been theories as to why this happens. I, for one, used to hear that drunk drivers usually survived more often because they didn’t tense up in a crash since they are impaired as opposed to the sober victims. Whether this myth is true, I can’t say.
However, a study published in the October edition of the American Surgeon states that being intoxicated does indeed lessen your risk of death from head injuries because ethanol, the substance in alcohol, can lessen the swelling of the brain.
