To drink alcohol or not and how to relate to it - everyone decides for himself. Some activities are not compatible with the use of alcohol, and this is prohibited by law, violation of it is punishable by administrative or even criminal liability. But most importantly, alcohol abuse threatens the health and life of the person himself, as well as those around him.
Sometimes, in terms of the appearance of people, it is impossible to guess the presence of a portion of alcohol in the blood. Internal feelings can also fail, a person will sincerely believe that he is absolutely sober, but the action of alcohol continues, and the body is able to fail in a critical situation.
Conducting medical examinations in order to assess the state of health at such a time is also useless, since after funny feasts the results will not be reliable for some time. So that the consequences of taking alcohol do not remain underestimated, it is important to know how much alcohol leaves the body and how to help it.
Alcohol produced by the human body
Often, in support of the idea of the benefits of alcohol, the fact is given that people's bodies themselves produce alcohol, and, accordingly, its presence in the body is the norm. However, you should not be mistaken in this regard.
The active ingredient of all alcoholic beverages is ethanol (ethyl alcohol, popular names - wine or just alcohol). About 10 grams of ethyl alcohol per day is actually produced in the human body in the course of metabolism and a certain amount of the so-called physiological alcohol in the processing of foods saturated with carbohydrates.
Both of these alcohols are endogenous - formed in the process of life. They do not harm the body and are not detected by various breathalyzers. Their presence in the body does not affect how much alcohol leaves the body of the drunk person, but ethanol received from outside significantly inhibits the production of natural.
Ethyl alcohol in this form is necessary to maintain a stable emotional state of a person and his resistance to stress, it has a positive effect on the areas of the brain responsible for states of tension and anxiety. Natural ethanol is involved in energy reactions, participates in the production of joy hormones - endorphins, maintains the elasticity of cell membranes and regulates the metabolism responsible for signal transmission between cells of the nervous system.
When a small amount of ethyl alcohol (for example, a glass of champagne) enters the body from the outside, its natural production decreases by 20%, and with constant use it stops completely.
Therefore, alcohol not produced by the body during careless and excessive use is a strong depressant that causes psychological and physical dependence.
When and how does the period for removing alcohol from the body begin
The state of intoxication is not normal for the human body. The alcohol that is not produced by the body is poison for him, the consequences of taking alcohol are intoxication. Like any foreign, harmful substance, the human body tries to get rid of ethanol as soon as possible.
Excretion begins immediately after receipt and start of treatment by the body, primarily through breathing, but in this way a small percentage of alcohol is released. As it is absorbed through the mucous membranes of the digestive tract and into the blood, excretion occurs through sweat and urine.
What determines the rate of alcohol release
The time for removing alcohol from the body directly depends on several factors:
- gender of a person;
- weight;
- amount drunk;
- type of alcoholic drink;
- liver condition;
- human age, metabolic rate in the body;
- alcohol is consumed on a full or empty stomach.
Features of female and male perceptions of alcohol
It is scientifically proven that in relation to alcohol, women are indeed a weaker sex. They are not adapted by nature for drinking. The lower percentage of water in the body leads to the fact that women not only get drunk faster, but their alcohol removal rate is about 20% lower than that of men.
On average, for 1 hour per 1 kg of the male body mass, 0.115 ml of pure alcohol is eliminated (not the total amount of alcohol-containing liquid, but its active substance is ethanol).
In women, this indicator will be equal to 0.92 ml.
Accordingly, the greater the mass of the human body, the faster the body will be able to remove ethanol.
Quantity and type of alcoholic drink drunk
The volume and strength of alcohol consumed directly affects how much alcohol is completely eliminated from the body.
The more drunk, the longer the selection process takes. If the dose of alcohol consumed is high, then the liver and excretory systems can not cope with its processing, intoxication begins - poisoning. A painful condition complicates metabolic processes, which slows down the elimination of poison by five times.
The only side effect that accelerates the purification of ethanol in this case may be vomiting, but in this way the body will get rid of only a portion of alcohol, which has not yet been absorbed completely, since the main absorption of food occurs in the intestine.
The strength of an alcoholic drink is also an important factor affecting how much alcohol leaves the body. It will take more time to get more ethyl alcohol and more.
Some features of drinks should be taken into account - when consumed in quantities above the minimum (one glass), beer and wine have a diuretic effect. However, along with the liquid, the body will leave a mass of vital nutrients.
If you calculate for a healthy man about 35 years old, 180 cm tall with a weight of 80 kg, then the period of alcohol removal from the body with 100 g of vodka drunk will be approximately 4.5 hours, and a half-liter mug of beer - in about 2 5 hours.
Liver condition and metabolic rate
The bulk of the alcohol that enters the body is processed by the liver. The worse the condition of the organ, the lower its ability to break down alcohol. The inability of the liver to cope with ethanol entering the human body leads to severe intoxication.
The metabolic rate is directly related to how much alcohol is completely eliminated from the body. The faster the metabolism goes, the less time it will take to remove the alcohol out. Therefore, in younger people, the metabolic processes in which normally occur faster than in the elderly and even middle-aged, the body will get rid of alcohol sooner.
However, it is worth considering that the state of the body depends not only on the years lived, but primarily on the lifestyle and genetic predisposition. Therefore, a person who started drinking early and immoderately, in most cases already in his youth, will suffer from alcohol intoxication more and longer than a healthy person who does not have a harmful addiction, but is much older.
How important it is to eat if you drink alcohol
The effect of alcohol on the body of a well-fed and hungry person is very different. An intoxication is faster on an empty stomach, and the concentration of ethanol in the blood will be much higher. Accordingly, it will take more time and effort to bring it out.
To limit this effect and increase the rate of excretion of alcohol from the body, you need to eat tight before drinking, and also continue to have a snack during its intake. If there is a predisposition to fast and severe intoxication, you can pre-drink activated or white coal (2-4 tablets), continuing to take it every two hours for the entire period of the feast (1-2 tablets). This will help more quickly remove alcohol after drinking it.
What helps to remove alcohol from the body faster
There are many medical and folk remedies to help the human body in such a difficult process, but not a single instant will get rid of the alcohol content in the body, but it will significantly reduce the time for this.
- Cleaning the stomach if it still contains alcohol-containing liquid.
- For operational sobering, it helps to smell ammonia (it will regain consciousness for a while, but alcohol will not leave the blood).
- All the same coal and other sorbents - natural and medicinal (for example, Enterosgel). However, its use makes sense only in the near future after ethanol enters the body. The next morning, when alcohol is already absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract, the absorbent will be useless.
- To slow the absorption of alcohol through the stomach, a raw egg helps to drink - this will only indirectly accelerate the process of excretion, since it will be easier for the body to cope with evenly received small portions of ethanol. It can also alleviate the general condition.
- Drinking a lot of fluids containing a lot of vitamin C - grapefruit, orange juices, drinks with sugar and lemon (not tea and coffee - caffeine delays the withdrawal of ethanol). It is good to use diuretics.
- It makes sense to take a cool or warm shower, a non-hot bath - toxins also leave the body through the opening pores.
- Physical activity, but in moderation so as not to harm the heart muscle.
- Stay in the great outdoors.
Folk remedies
Household techniques are known to increase the rate of elimination of alcohol from the body.
- Milk, honey, ginger - a drink of these components can be taken once an hour.
- The infusion of herbs such as angelica, thyme, angelica, butterbur are mixed for brewing in equal proportions, taken periodically throughout the day.
- Ginger broth.
- Juice from carrots.
- Chicken broth, preferably with the addition of caraway seeds.
- Pickles (not pickles!) Of cucumbers and cabbage.
How to calculate the ethanol release time from the body
To determine the time for alcohol removal from the body, you can apply the calculations "manually", based on the indicators listed above, but to speed up and simplify the process, there are special calculators in the form of programs, sites and mobile applications. In this case, you only need to enter the key data.
However, do not forget that each organism is individual, and its functioning in a particular case depends on many factors. Therefore, you should not rely 100% on the calculations of how much alcohol leaves the body, if the presence of ethanol in the blood can be life-threatening, health, social, and financial well-being, it is preferable to play it safe and check yourself through a breathalyzer, and it’s best not to start an activity, excluding the alcohol content in the body.