Alcohol consumption is known to cause many health problems which involve organs such as liver, heart, kidney, blood and bone marrow. It is also responsible for nutritional deficiencies and an overall decrease in immunity. Alcohol abuse has a deleterious effect on the skin and is liable for causing various skin surroundings like rosacea, porphyria cutanea tarda, post-adolescent acne, discoid eczema and psoriasis.
Recent articles review the direct and indirect changes of alcohol on the skin. Alcoholic liver abnormality disturbs the estrogen and bile salty metabolism with peculiar symbols of inflammation and redness on the skin. In male alcoholics, there is an enlarge in the female hormone called estrogen and a decrease in the male hormone testosterone. This causes a feminizing effect such as advance of breasts, feminine pattern of body and pubic hair and reorganization of body fat. Liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension account for the individual skin condition in the region of the belly button called ‘caput medusae’ -distended veins.
Alcoholics tend to have an enlarge in systemic and superficial skin problems with bacterial and fungal infections. This is because of alcohol-induce nutritional deficiency and impaired incorporation of zinc and vitamins from the intestines, which consequences in decrease immunity. The deficiencies of zinc, vitamin C and trace essentials cause a weakening of mucosal barriers, poor wound healing and a tendency for infections.
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