webfact Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 HEALTHCold-weather boozing dangerous: doctorThe Nation BANGKOK: -- Heavy drinking in cold weather can cause life-threatening symptoms, a doctor in Kalasin warned yesterday."For example, it may lead to heart failure," Kalasin Hospital director Methee Pisitpayat said.This month, temperatures are low in many parts of Thailand.In Kalasin, the mercury has hovered between 10 and 12 degrees Celsius at night. In several northern and northeastern provinces, the temperature has dropped so low that frozen dewdrops have appeared.In Amnat Charoen, a 94-year-old woman was found dead in her bedroom yesterday morning and doctors suspect it became too cold for her."She was relatively healthy. So we suspect the cold spell as the cause," said Amnat Charoen Provincial Administrative Organisation councillor Prasert Kananont. -- The Nation 2013-12-30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post englishoak Posted December 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2013 Wot ? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe666 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 They are correct cold weather and alcohol do not mix. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona and one of the marines who raised the flag on Mount. Suribachi, Iwo Jima died from exposure after drinking too much and falling asleep outside. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post F430murci Posted December 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2013 Works reasonably well for Russians. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ginjag Posted December 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2013 They are correct cold weather and alcohol do not mix. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona and one of the marines who raised the flag on Mount. Suribachi, Iwo Jima died from exposure after drinking too much and falling asleep outside. My great great grandfather died from heatstroke after drinking too much and falling asleep in the Sahara. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricBerg Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 "In several northern and northeastern provinces, the temperature has dropped so low that frozen dewdrops have appeared." Not exactly -28 in Moskow... "In Amnat Charoen, a 94-year-old woman was found dead in her bedroom yesterday morning and doctors suspect it became too cold for her. "She was relatively healthy. So we suspect the cold spell as the cause," said Amnat Charoen Provincial Administrative Organisation councillor Prasert Kananont" There's a well-balanced autopsy report. The lady was 94. Very well possible it was her time in spite of any temperature. Sounds like a good way to go though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ikke Posted December 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2013 He should listen o the song.... you say the best, when you say nothing at all..... 555 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonarax Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Russia disagrees. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackr Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Don't say that or the natives will think it's okay to get pie-eyed when it's not cold, like 350 days a year! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Don't say that or the natives will think it's okay to get pie-eyed when it's not cold, like 350 days a year! Near half of them do anyway. look at the alcoholic stats for Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yunla Posted December 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Alcohol gives you a sugar boost and so drinking small amount, a few beers or shots, is actually good for keeping yourself going while you build a fire or walk home. My Grandfather used to drink Brennvin, Swedish home-stilled spirits from berries, out of a hip flask when walking home through the snow in Northern Sweden. But the idea is to take swigs to warm you up on the walk home or build a fire, not to get totally smashed and topple into a snowdrift lol. Edited December 30, 2013 by Yunla 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bangon04 Posted December 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2013 Heavy drinking may lead to heart failure, duh... just add one extra ingredient (choose any one you prefer) - windpipe full of vomit, upside down in a bath full of water, overtaking a Thai truck at 120 kmh down a steep and winding road, riding a Honda Wave with 4 friends in the dark without lights or helmets, being one of 24 passengers riding in the back of a pickup truck being driven by another drunk, falling over a railing on your 10th floor balcony, inviting 6 ladyboys back to your room for a nightcap, slapping 3 motorcycle taxi drivers on the head as a joke, stepping on a 20 baht note to stop it blowing away... the list is almost endless 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaltsc Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 "Heavy drinking in cold weather can cause life-threatening symptoms, a doctor in Kalasin warned yesterday." Well, this warning should be just as effective as the programs to reduce traffic crashes, general alcohol abuse, smoking tobacco, domestic violence, consumption of sugar and other unhealthy foods, etc. Most people have been warned about changing unhealthy/life threatening habits, but are: 1) too stupid to understand the consequences; 2) too weak to change; 3) just don't care. However, reporting all the deaths due to irresponsible behaviors reinforces ones belief that Darwinism is still in full operation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Works reasonably well for Russians. Have you seen the stats for alcohol related deaths in Russia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alant Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 given the lack of clarity in the OP, and what the old girl passing on had to do with alcohol there must be some people smirking at the responses it brings do you think??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totster Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Alcohol gives you a sugar boost and so drinking small amount, a few beers or shots, is actually good for keeping yourself going while you build a fire or walk home. My Grandfather used to drink Brennvin, Swedish home-stilled spirits from berries, out of a hip flask when walking home through the snow in Northern Sweden. But the idea is to take swigs to warm you up on the walk home or build a fire, not to get totally smashed and topple into a snowdrift lol. Drink and not get smashed ?? Can't see the point in that.. totster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Works reasonably well for Russians. Have you seen the stats for alcohol related deaths in Russia? I would expect that all the alcohol related deaths in Russia have something to do with alcohol. (makes as much sense as the OP) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Works reasonably well for Russians. Have you seen the stats for alcohol related deaths in Russia? I would expect that all the alcohol related deaths in Russia have something to do with alcohol. (makes as much sense as the OP) My other great great grandfather is among the stats -alcohol related deaths---- He was run over by a Johnny Walker lorry. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangKino Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 That man must be a doctor! [of what is something else though?] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Neeranam Posted December 30, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2013 I drank a bottle of 20 year old whiskey one in Helsinki by myself and then more in a bar and woke up in on a park bench at the side of a road with my eyelids frozen together and I survived. Thailand cold? my arse. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) How many 94 year old do you think are in Amnat CHaroern province? Most of the women there die before they are 60. <deleted> I'm no doctor and can see a possible cause of death being old-age. Edited December 30, 2013 by Neeranam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Works reasonably well for Russians.Have you seen the stats for alcohol related deaths in Russia? I would expect that all the alcohol related deaths in Russia have something to do with alcohol. (makes as much sense as the OP) Let me be clearer then: over 50 percent of all premature deaths in russia of people of working age are directly attributed to alcohol abuse. My point was not aimed at the OP but at comment alcohol works for Russians. It doesn't. Edited December 30, 2013 by Bluespunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F430murci Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Works reasonably well for Russians.Have you seen the stats for alcohol related deaths in Russia? No, but I spend a fair amount of time there and my wife is Russian. Those guys getting drunk and falling down or having a car wreck while drunk has little to do with cold weather. Nevertheless, my statement was in jest and intended to be on about the same level as Thai guy coming up with this brilliant deduction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbamboo Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 It was mentioned by a Thai road safety expert (sic) that bad spirits were the cause of most road accidents in Thailand so I guess there might be something in this. Best to go easy on the ice in your whisky in the cold weather so you don't numb your hands and make sure it's good stuff. Chin chin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F430murci Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Works reasonably well for Russians.Have you seen the stats for alcohol related deaths in Russia? I would expect that all the alcohol related deaths in Russia have something to do with alcohol. (makes as much sense as the OP) Let me be clearer then: over 50 percent of all premature deaths in russia of people of working age are directly attributed to alcohol abuse. My point was not aimed at the OP but at comment alcohol works for Russians. It doesn't. Oh jeez, always someone that has to play rocket scientist. Besides my comment being a joke, I was only addressing drinking in the cold. Russians are equal opportunists and drive into objects whether summer or winter or drunk or sober for that matter. I am also not sure how they can distinguish Russian non-accute causes of death as being caused by alcohol since most Russian alcies frickin smoke like chimnies, eat crap food and opiate abuse is so widespread. Sad really, but again . . . my comment was in jest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudRight Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 "Heavy drinking in cold weather can cause life-threatening symptoms, a doctor in Kalasin warned yesterday." Well, this warning should be just as effective as the programs to reduce traffic crashes, general alcohol abuse, smoking tobacco, domestic violence, consumption of sugar and other unhealthy foods, etc. Most people have been warned about changing unhealthy/life threatening habits, but are: 1) too stupid to understand the consequences; 2) too weak to change; 3) just don't care. However, reporting all the deaths due to irresponsible behaviors reinforces ones belief that Darwinism is still in full operation. 4) Understand the risks and choose to engage in it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costas2008 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 And then........people complain, that Thailand hasn't got good doctors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Deleted Edited December 30, 2013 by Bluespunk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickirs Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Substantial alcohol consumption causes rapid body heat loss through constriction of surface blood vessels and if you're in subfreezing temperatures with inadequate clothing, you'll suffer low heart pressure with possible death. Even Alaskan natives, ie., Eskimoes, die from such effects. Given the moderate Thailand winter temperatures I don't see this typically happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 The bus driver yesterday due to his clothing must have been freezing. We set off and his extremely cold hands nearly made us crash as unscrewing his whisky became very difficult. I think Thailand really does have its priorities right ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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