In addition to diabetes and its treatment, the way your body reacts to alcohol and the stage at which alcohol use may cause health issues depends on factors such as your gender, weight and age.
In medicine, alcohol abuse is seen as a continuum from risk use to excessive use and alcohol addiction.
Risk use of alcohol involves repeatedly consuming copious amounts of alcohol or drinking to get drunk but health hazards have not yet appeared. Early symptoms for health hazards may include stomach issues or trouble sleeping.
Excessive use of alcohol entails physical, psychological and social health hazards.
The symptoms of alcohol addiction or alcoholism include increased tolerance, finding it hard to stop or limit your drinking, continuing to drink despite harmful side effects, compulsive drinking as well as withdrawal symptoms when trying to cut down or quit.
In diabetes drinking to get drunk is always a risk. A person with diabetes must be able to take care of themselves and their care. Forgetting or neglecting diabetes care in connection with alcohol use is a health risk.