If a person gets drunk, like pretty out of it but not throwing up just yet, how long does it take before the alcohol is completely out of their system?
2007-07-19 09:48:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
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Healthy people metabolize alcohol at a fairly consistent rate. As a rule of thumb, a person will eliminate one average drink or .5 oz (15 ml) of alcohol per hour. Several factors influence this rate. The rate of elimination tends to be higher when the blood alcohol concentration in the body is very high or very low. Also chronic alcoholics may (depending on liver health) metabolize alcohol at a significantly higher rate than average. Finally, the body's ability to metabolize alcohol quickly tend to diminish with age.
Body Weight and Body Type
In general, the less you weigh the more you will be affected by a given amount of alcohol. As detailed above, alcohol has a high affinity for water. Basically one's blood alcohol concentration is a function of the total amount of alcohol in one's system divided by total body water. So for two individuals with similar body compositions and different weights, the larger individual will achieve lower alcohol concentrations than the smaller one if ingesting the same amount of alcohol.
However, for people of the same weight, a well muscled individual will be less affected than someone with a higher percentage of fat since fatty tissue does not contain very much water and will not absorb very much alcohol.
2007-07-19 09:56:47 · answer #1 · answered by JLR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The benchmark used by most law enforcement and Dr's is one beer, 1 shot of liquor, one 4 -6 ounce glass of wine per hour. Of course if you are very petite or very big then you can adjust accordingly, but I wouldn't try it.
2007-07-19 09:56:13 · answer #2 · answered by canuck1950 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes the average body 1 hour to metabolize one drink. One drink being, 12 oz beer, 6 oz wine, or 1.5 oz of hard liquor.
2007-07-19 09:57:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is dependent upon their ability to metabolize and everyone is unique. Let's say on average, between 24 and 48 hours.
2007-07-19 09:51:19 · answer #4 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the basic rule is 1 hr per shot/beer
but everyone is a little bit different
2007-07-19 09:51:42 · answer #5 · answered by nathaniel k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋