do you get colder the more drunk you are? or do you get hotter?

Answer 1

Some people believe that having an alcoholic drink will warm you. It can make you feel warmer, but it makes it easier to lose your body heat. One effect of alcohol is to make the skin capillaries dilate. This brings more blood to the skin. Since the heat receptors are close to the surface of the skin, you will feel warmer. However, at the same time, you will lose body heat more quickly. (With enough alcohol, you will be more likely to freeze, but less likely to care whether you do or not.)

This warming effect of alcohol is also seen at normal temperatures. Have you ever noticed how you feel warmer after having had a few drinks? Some women don’t like to drink alcoholic beverages, because they appear to be flushed or blushing. (The capillaries in their faces are dilating.)

Answer 2

Neither, exactly.

The perception of touch receptors to anything at all is increasingly deadened, so less of anything can be felt the more you drink.

The capillaries near the surface of the skin are dialated so the body gives off more heat, somewhat cooling it over time.

People often seem to percieve temperature at all as a bit warmer when they first start to drink (the false "warming" effect of an alcoholic drink) but this is replaced by the above numbness.

;-)

Answer 3

Blood migrates from deep in your body toward the surface, where it warms the skin... you feel warmer. However, since the heat is now on the surface rather than being insulated by the skin and shallow muscles, it radiates away. Also, you sweat more and additional heat is carried off by the evaporation. So you feel warmer for a while, but that's just because your body interior lost heat, which moved up to your skin, from whence you're quickly losing it to the ambient air.

Answer 4

Actually, you can lose temperature if you are drunk and It´s cold, because Alcohol produces general arteriolar vasodilation( specially in the dermal papillary plexes), by inhibiting the vasomotor center in the hypotalamus. Becuase of this, you excahnge more temperature iwth the environment, specially if it´s cold, despite the warm sensation that you may feel.

Answer 5

Alcohol dulls the senses and the more you drink the less you feel of anything. Take the drunk test yourself. Get really plastered, take off your clothes and lay down in a snowbank. If you start to shiver then you must be cold. If you start to sweat go see a doctor.

Answer 6

Actually your body gets hotter because of the amount of alcohol in your system Will increase your body temperature

Answer 7

Not sure what you are actually asking.

Alcohol causes the blood vessels in the brain (and elsewhere) to contract, this in turn reduces blood flow. It is the flow of blood that keeps your extremities warm. You will freeze to death or get frost bite faster if you have alcohol in your blood.

Answer 8

if you are totally drunk, you don't feel cold. People sometimes freeze to death when they are drunk because they don't notice how cold they are. Basically, all of your senses are numbed when you're really drunk. That's why drunk people wake up with bruises and have no idea how they got them, and why it's hard to keep a stiffy when you're drunk
If you are kinda queezy from drinking too much, you might feel hot at first, and want some fresh air though.

Answer 9

Alcohol does not appreciably make you more efficient or less efficient at storing heat, the primary sensation of feeling warm associated with consuming alcohol is a perceptual effect of the chemical force of alcohol.

Answer 10

Colder. Alcohol is a depressant.