Alcohol poisoning...................


Question: Alcohol poisoning!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!?
HI! i was wondering how many beers it takes to get alcohol poisoning!? i was wondering because somebody i knew was drinking at a football games, and he got caught!. they took him to a hospital b/c he had alcohol poisoning!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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It TOTALLY depends:
It's not only how many drinks, but how quickly you drink them, how much you weigh, and whether you are male or female!.

Other factors, including fatigue, how recently you've eaten, and a host of others can also affect individual reactions!. And the faster you drink, the more quickly your blood alcohol level rises!.

The liver metabolizes about a half ounce of pure alcohol per hour, the amount found in the "standard drink" usually used to calculate blood alcohol!.

That's 1!.25 oz of hard liquor (Scotch, vodka, rum, gin) - a single shot, not a double; or a 12-oz bottle of domestic beer; or 5!.5 oz of table wine (about two-thirds of a cup)!. Each of these contains about the same amount of ethanol, the kind of alcohol that's found in liquor!.

Although people think they "don't get as drunk" on beer or wine as on hard liquor, each of these drinks has the same physiological effect on the body!.

The "one drink per hour" rule of thumb won't necessarily keep you below the legal definition of intoxication (in many states, !.08 percent blood alcohol level, or BAL), but potentially fatal alcohol poisoning generally occurs at substantially higher levels than this!.

Alcohol poisoning most often occurs when someone drinks relatively rapidly, often because of a drinking game, drinking contest, 21 shots for a 21st birthday celebration, "forced" drinking of large quantities (at a fraternity initiation, for instance), or "drinking to get drunk!."

A woman weighing around 100 pounds can easily reach danger level with maybe half a dozen drinks in an hour, seven or eight over the course of two hours, and considerably less if she's taken a medication that reacts with alcohol!.

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It seems like any underage kid caught drinking gets taking to the hospital for alcohol poisoning!. Sometimes i think they do that just to scare under age kids!. I'm not saying that alcohol poisoning doesn't exist, you just hear about it a lot more from the underagers!. Just don't drink until your old enough and know what your doing to your body and you won't have to worry about it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

depends on the person!. if your a first time drinker, it wont take too many!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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