Question

A man drinks 22 drinks per week and mostly on weekends. He complains of hangovers on weekends. He does not feel guilty, nor get annoyed when someone asks him about his habits. When a random check is done on his body &fluid comparments, what change is seen? *

A. Increase in ECF
B. Increase in ICF
C. Increase in Osmolarity
D. Increase in specific gravity

Answer 1

Answer A- Increase in ECF

Alcohol also reduces how much vasopressin your body makes. Vasopressin is an antidiuretic hormone. It causes the body to hold onto water, which typically limits how much urine your kidneys make. The action of suppressing this hormone exacerbates the diuretic effect and leads to dehydration.

Water passes from a region of lower to a region of higher osmotic pressure, water flows out of the cells into the extracellular fluid, tending to lower its osmotic pressure and increase its volume toward normal. As a result of the flow of water out of the cells, they become dehydrated.

Increased plasma and extracellular fluid volume 1 week after chronic alcohol ingestion, and these volume expansions persisted for the remaining 7 weeks.