2007-09-25 14:23:20 · 14 answers · asked by bryansfishing 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
If she's unresponsive, take her to the emergency room.
When she's sobered up, ground her for six months.
2007-09-25 17:20:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well depending on the amount of alcohol consumed she might need a trip to the emergancy room. Alcohol posioning is a leading cause of death in teenagers.
The image of a drunken individual may not immediately come to mind when one hears the term "drug overdose." Yet the sad reality is that 20,000 individuals die from alcohol-induced causes, and 30,000 young people require immediate medical treatment for acute alcohol poisoning each year in the United States.
How Does Alcohol Poisoning Occur?
Alcohol is a depressant of the central nervous system, which is made up of the brain and spinal cord. It produces different behaviors, emotions, and physical effects as it acts upon specific parts of the brain. First affected is the cerebrum, which controls such functions as recognition, vision, reasoning, and emotion. Low amounts of alcohol reduce inhibitions and affect judgment. For example, someone who is often quiet and reserved may become loud, outspoken, and more dramatic. Others may become depressed, withdrawn, even distressed and tearful. Later, as alcohol levels rise, vision, movement, and speech become impaired. When alcohol depresses the next brain area, the cerebellum, problems with coordination, reflexes, and balance occur.
The last portion of the brain to be affected is the medulla, which controls basic survival functions such as respiration (breathing) and heartbeat. When a person has consumed so much alcohol that the medulla is affected, his or her brain's ability to control respiration and heart rate becomes severely diminished. The heart rate can drop and breathing may stop, which will lead to a coma and then death.
How Much Alcohol Is Lethal?
Most authorities agree that a lethal dose of alcohol is about 0.40 percent, or about five times the 0.08 legal limit of many states. Death from alcohol poisoning may occur at much lower levels, however, especially with inexperienced drinkers. For a 120-pound individual, it would only take about nine to ten drinks in an hour to reach the lethal level.
2007-09-25 21:39:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if my teen was passed out drunk, i wouldn't waste time on y/a to ask the same question 3 times. i would concentrate on dragging her to the ER, to make sure, the alcohol poisioning isn't fatal. then i'd make damn sure it won't happen again. if you leave her to "sleep it off", she may not wake up again, she could choke on her own vomit,etc. any number of things could go wrong. see, if you can wake her, by putting her under a cold shower, if you have to.
2007-09-26 05:19:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dude, if this is really true (which I doubt it is) and your first reaction was to register and sign up to yahoo answers and ask a bunch of complete strangers, most of which are kids, you have a lot bigger problems that your daughter being passed out. If she does die it is COMPLETELY your fault for asking here first instead of just doing the mature adult thing and taking her to the hospital.
2007-09-25 23:58:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Give her plenty of water. Plenty of rest too. If she throws out all the better as it rids the body of the alchohol. She'll get up very inbalanced & groggy. Take a dare - after she gets up or initially show signs of recovery, give her a sip of what made her drunk e.g. beer/wine (say a couple of gulps only) or a small sip of whisky/brandy : that in theory will gain her back her balance, and, then continue to sleep or just relax!
2007-09-25 21:34:52 · answer #5 · answered by paulyap1 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
u asked this question 3 times within 20 minutes. but anyway if ur not lying she might just need to sleep. some people dont wake up until they sleep it off. when she wakes up make her drink gatorade and make her eat something.
2007-09-25 21:29:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Enjoy your time in jail. That's what you do.
Irresponsible jerks like you are such a waste of space in the free world.
2007-09-28 21:16:14 · answer #7 · answered by penguino8165 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
perhaps get off the pc and call your Doctor or take her to the hospital.
2007-09-25 22:45:25 · answer #8 · answered by #1Realtor® 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
let her sleep it off. give her like 12 hours, then if the problem persists consult your physician....
or get her stomach pumped because you're in deep Sh*t.
and perhaps don't let her drink that much... or anything at all for that matter.
2007-09-25 21:26:37 · answer #9 · answered by Rachel 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
give her water or get her to the ER to have her stomach pumped
2007-09-25 22:46:02 · answer #10 · answered by lindsay.faith 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋