Wednesday, December 24, 2014

How to survive the holidays: derive alcohol from the body


How to survive the holidays: derive alcohol from the bodyThe question of how quickly to bring alcohol from the body, of course, bothers many.


Unfortunately, significantly accelerate the breeding of alcohol, so that the traffic police found no traces of the recent offerings in the exhaled air, and found no traces of alcohol (ethanol) in the analysis of blood and urine after only a couple of hours after the party, it is impossible. The only thing you can do is to reduce the negative impact of alcohol on the body and get rid of a hangover.




Bring alcohol: how's it going?




To understand how you can quickly bring alcohol, you need to understand how goes alcohol from the body. Displays the alcohol from the body in two ways: part of ethanol excreted unchanged part by oxidation turns into acetic acid.




Pure alcohol is removed by evaporation lungs and skin, as well as highlighting through the kidneys (it is these ways of elimination of alcohol on the principle of rapid tests used by the traffic police).




Decomposes alcohol in the liver. Here, with the participation of special enzymes: alcohol dehydrogenase, ethanol turns into a poisonous substance - acetaldehyde (toxic effects of acetaldehyde causes of alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver).




Then acetaldehyde in the liver is oxidized to acetic acid, which can be processed (disposed) in almost all cells.




When you do this directly in the form of ethyl alcohol is not more than 30% alcohol. Most alcohol is excreted through the liver. It should be remembered that the rate of elimination of alcohol through the liver depends solely on the state of the liver and is normally around 0, 10 - 0, 15 ppm per hour in males, and 0, 08 0, and 1 ppm per hour for women (for men weighing 80kg is about 25ml of pure ethanol per hour). Unfortunately, the rate of elimination of alcohol does increase not only be reduced in the case of fatty degeneration of the liver and alcoholic steatosis.





Speeding up the elimination of alcohol through the lungs and kidneys


Thus we can only affect the rate of elimination of alcohol through the lungs, kidneys and skin. To achieve this is quite simple: you need to drink more water and to walk in the fresh air.




It makes sense to have a Cup of strong sweet tea. The caffeine in tea has a diuretic effect, which will somewhat accelerate the removal of the alcohol. Moreover, the biological effect of caffeine is opposite to the effect of alcohol: it alleviates the symptoms of intoxication, as problems with focus, vision, and confusion.




These simple methods in cases of moderate intoxication will allow you to regain control of themselves, reduce the negative impact of alcohol on the liver and hangover, but will not help to avoid the detection of alcohol intoxication by means of laboratory tests.




However, do not forget that caffeine, like alcohol, causes an increase in blood pressure and increases heart rate. Therefore, the combination of large doses of alcohol and caffeine can cause heart attack. One should be especially careful with these drinks to people with heart problems and those who suffer from hypertension.





Bring alcohol: whether to trust antipolice?


Special mention deserve the drugs that promise to bring alcohol for a few minutes. Unfortunately, a specific antidote against ethanol does not exist.




Therefore, even when talking about alcohol poisoning, representing a threat to life, everything that you can do the doctors is to begin to pour the patient infusion solutions, accelerating diuresis and assign symptomatic therapy, simply to support the failing heart, liver, etc.




All the antidotes that can abundantly be found on the shelves of supermarkets, prove to be a combination of funds from headaches, large doses of vitamins and aromatic fragrances which partially interrupts the smell.




Perhaps taking these drugs will soften hangover, but that they will help to significantly speed up the elimination of alcohol, should not count.





Bring alcohol: folk legends


Skeptical is to treat and folk methods. For example, the advice to drink activated charcoal or other adsorbents. Unfortunately, the size of the molecules of ethanol are too small, and the sorbent will not be able to capture and absorb.




Although on charcoal, in theory, should adsorb fusel oil - elements enhancing hangover, but in practice, when the alcohol has already penetrated into the blood, the stomach and small intestine filled damned, coal will help a little.




Rather, in severe cases, it will be advisable gastric lavage restaurant method: you should drink in one gulp a few liters of water and induce vomiting. Intake of ethanol in the blood will stop, respectively, decrease the time of elimination of alcohol.





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