2006-11-21 05:53:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Men's Health
Just read this in my biology book yesterday.
Breaking down alcohol. The liver, the only organ able to break down alcohol in the body, removes the alcohol from the bloodstream by slowly converting in into another poison, acetaldehyde; this poison is responsible for the headaches and nausea ("hangover") that follow alcohol consumption. The acetaldehyde is eventually changed to acetate and "burned" in cellular respiration. Because alcohol remains in the body until it is broken down by the liver, it may take the body hours to rid itself of only a few drinks. Also keep in mind that it mainly depends on your wait. If a person weights 100 pounds and they consume 1 drink = .038% is there blood level, 2 drinks = .075% driving becomes drangerous and you are legally drunk in some states at .08%. Or a person, 160 pounds can drink 2 drinks and have there blood level at .047%, alittle over what a 100 pound person's blood level is at after just 1 drink. So as I said it largely depends on your weight.
Hope this helps!
2006-11-21 06:21:57 · answer #1 · answered by Andrew90 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a general rule of thumb, 1 unit of alcohol is metabolised in 1 hour. However, this depends very much on the individual and is not a hard and fast rule.
2006-11-21 05:56:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol doesn't hang around for long....maybe 2 days....unless a person has been drinking a LOT and for a long time. Even then it's about 4 days at most.
2006-11-21 05:57:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on your liver & pancreas. Your liver breaks it down and what it can't handle your pancreas takes care of. If your liver has scarring it could take as long as 3 weeks to completely get rid of it. I know of people applying for a job and haveing to take alcohol test and failing the test after laying off alcohol for as long as 3 weeks.
2006-11-21 06:36:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends of the concentration of the beverage
Beer has a short effect while others have longer effect, but they appear in the form of confusion, the time of each will appear shorter till the person becomes conscious he will take time to excrete the alchohol from the body
2006-11-21 05:57:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
72 hours
2006-11-21 05:55:06 · answer #6 · answered by bluelitttt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. they ought to be legalized. too plenty money is spent on them as that's now, to no avail, because of the fact there are medications and continually would be medications. in the event that they want to kill themselves, why now not enable them to do it? we would be out much less money, we would surely make money via making it value plenty that no person ought to have adequate money it however the wealthy.
2016-12-17 13:58:20 · answer #7 · answered by battiata 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
generally 48 hours depending on the amount of consumption
2006-11-21 08:39:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋