On Tet holiday, drinking alcohol is unavoidable for some people. When drinking alcohol, of course you are not allowed to participate in traffic or drive a car and you completely agree with this, but there are also situations where after drinking alcohol. You want your blood alcohol concentration to disappear quickly so you can drive around. Obviously, after drinking alcohol and waiting for a day to run out of alcohol, people will be happier and more confident than those who drink alcohol for a day before running out of alcohol.
So how do I reduce the alcohol concentration in my blood quickly? This is definitely a question of many people. After researching, in this article I will answer it for you, which is actually also the answer for me because during Tet, I often have to drink alcohol. How to do it safely and not get fined is even more important, so let's start to find out.
If you search online, you will find many articles sharing tips on drinking alcohol to avoid being fined for alcohol concentration, meaning you can't blow it out after drinking. Whether these methods are effective or not, according to my research, most of them are not. Why is that so?
Principles of drinking alcohol.
Alcohol is a chemical substance that we simply call alcohol. When you drink alcohol, alcohol will be completely absorbed and released into the blood, of which 80% is in the small intestine and 20% is absorbed in the stomach. Depending on the state of the body when drinking alcohol, whether it is full or hungry, the rate of alcohol absorption will be different. As we know, drinking alcohol on an empty stomach will make you drunk faster, so to drink alcohol to reduce drunkenness, it is better to drink when you are full, then the alcohol will diffuse into the body's tissues. For example, traces of alcohol can be found in breath, urine, brain fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, blood, etc. and this is also the basis for determining a person's alcohol concentration.
When the Traffic Police blow the alcohol concentration, because the alcohol exists in the blood, it will be carried to the lungs and then excreted through the breath. If there is alcohol in the breath, the Traffic Police will blow it up and you will be fined. So, if we want to avoid being blown up, we must solve one of the following two problems:
- One is to make the blood no longer have alcohol. When the blood has no alcohol, the breath has no alcohol. At that time, no matter how much you puff your mouth, roll your eyes, and blow, it won't come out.
- The second is how to fool the blower, making it unable to determine the alcohol in your body.
In fact, there is actually a method to reduce alcohol concentration quickly, but it does not follow the idea that they will cancel each other out, because in the body, only the Liver helps to decompose alcohol to eliminate alcohol, so if we want to get rid of alcohol quickly, we can only sit and hope to kneel and pray for the Liver to be healthy and work hard to eliminate alcohol, then maybe we can get rid of alcohol quickly.
Why do I still say that drinking Coca or other drinks will help reduce alcohol concentration faster? The problem is that it is not the substance but the water when you drink and any liquid you will take into your body a large amount of water, which will cause the alcohol to be diluted and will be eliminated faster through urine or sweat. To put it more simply, when you drink a lot of water, sweat secretes more alcohol, so the alcohol also comes out faster, so you run out of alcohol faster. So you don't have to just drink Coca, Pepsi or this or that water to make it complicated, just drink filtered water or if you want to go even faster, as in the previous article about drinking less alcohol, I shared that you should exercise more. You can exercise wherever you go, play billiards or in bed, whatever. Just exercise to make sweat secrete quickly and the alcohol will go away quickly, and there is no magic water that can make alcohol disappear in the body.
Nowadays, there are advertisements for hangover cures on the internet, do they make the alcohol level go away quickly? The answer is both sad and happy, it's an antidote to alcohol. It really works to help relieve hangovers, help you become less drunk and wake up quickly, but it does not reduce the alcohol concentration in the blood.
Why is that?
Just imagine it like this. The mechanism of drinking alcohol is that when you drink alcohol, the alcohol enters your bloodstream. The liver converts the alcohol into substances. These substances will make the body drunk, the brain dull, then stagger, have headaches, feel nauseous, want to sing, etc.
The function of the hangover medicine is that it will support the liver in metabolizing alcohol. The liver will then metabolize and not create substances that cause headaches and nausea, but the alcohol will simply be converted into water and CO2 so conditions such as headaches, nausea, and fatigue will be much better. I'm not saying it disappears because the effectiveness cannot reach 100%. Thus, taking hangover medicine helps the body avoid getting drunk, but it does not completely reduce the alcohol concentration in the blood.
Why don't hangover pills help reduce blood alcohol concentration?
Simply because the alcohol meter measures whether or not there is alcohol in the blood, whether there is a lot or a little, and anti-alcohol drugs only interfere with the process of the liver converting alcohol into other substances. This means that the drug has no effect on the amount of alcohol in the blood, and alcohol is still only processed by the liver.
Just imagine this, the alcohol in your blood is like a fish in a river. The fisherman is like Gan, the antidote is like the chef. Normally, if there is no antidote for hangovers, fishermen just catch fish, dry them, then sell them to the market. When there is a chef, the chef processes the fish into delicious dishes and then eats them on the spot.
We will see that whether the fish is cooked by the chef or dried, it is a process after being caught on the shore that has no effect on how many fish are left in the river. Measuring alcohol concentration is measuring the amount of fish in the river, so it is not affected by the chef or the antidote. In fact, it is possible that hangover pills will increase the process of metabolizing alcohol faster, but there is currently no research showing that because the speed still depends on the Liver, and the Liver is already working at maximum efficiency even without hangover pills. Currently, taking hangover medicine is not effective for measuring alcohol concentration, but it has a very good anti-drunk effect.
In addition, online you have seen tips shared such as when blowing alcohol concentration, you should eat shrimp paste, chewing gum or even smoke cigarettes. The explanation given by these tips is because the above foods and inhalers will cover the smell of alcohol in the breath, so when the smell of alcohol is overwhelmed, blowing the alcohol concentration will no longer increase. This is completely wrong, you can fool your lover's nose or even your dog's nose, but you can't fool him with an alcohol blower, because it doesn't care what your breath smells like, it only cares whether there is alcohol in your breath or not, and of course no matter what the smell, the smell of alcohol is still there. There's alcohol in the blood, there's alcohol on the breath, these are inseparable best friends like a scammer and his nature.
So it's almost impossible for us to find a miracle drug that can eliminate alcohol in the body. The only way is to eliminate it naturally by drinking lots of water and trying to exercise. Is there any way to trick the alcohol breather so that it cannot measure the amount of alcohol in the breath? I have learned the principles of some types of alcohol breathers as follows:
The first and best type is the fuel cell sensor. In this sensor, the manufacturer creates a platinum oxide surface when there is alcohol in the breath, the alcohol will react with this platinum oxide to create an electrical conductor, then the electric current is measured. If the current is greater, the stronger the reaction occurs, proving that the amount of alcohol in the breath is more, so the result is alcohol and what is the percentage of alcohol. So if you want to prevent this machine from recognizing alcohol, you have to stop the reaction between alcohol and platinum oxide or add a substance to create a non-conductive product, but I think there is no way to do that.
Meters using semiconductor technology with a tin oxide surface are similar. The third type of machine is a classic machine that uses the Chromium oxide reaction. It works as follows: When alcohol in the breath reacts with Chromium oxide, it will create a black product. The meter will rely on the dark or light blackness to calculate the amount of alcohol in the breath. So if you want to avoid alcohol, you must add something to the breath to prevent the alcohol from reacting with Chromium oxide. But that's not feasible.
In short, just drink water and exercise a lot or install another liver so it can be eliminated quickly. Otherwise, limit your alcohol intake. Wishing you all to always be careful, limit alcohol and be less likely to be fined by the police.