If you've ever had a drink, probably friends and acquaintances gave you a variety of advice, sober up as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, all these tips don't help, since we still do not know any method of sobering up really applicable in practice. Well, in addition to the banal waiting for the end of the effect of alcohol.
Nonetheless, scientists recently managed to find out, that under certain conditions, or rather, under laboratory conditions, alcohol can literally be exhaled.
This method will not help those who like to spend the evening in a cheerful company., but it may well be useful for saving human lives. As you probably know, Along with drinking, ethanol enters our body, which then spreads through the circulatory system, while affecting brain function, pressure and our whole body as a whole, causing the same intoxication effect.
This is where the liver comes in - it processes alcohol, passing through itself about 90% ingested ethanol, and we still cannot speed up this process. But there is still another way to remove alcohol from the circulatory system., and this way – exhalation.
The thing is, what if the concentration of any gas in the blood exceeds the concentration of the same gas in the lungs, our body begins to exhale it. That is why we exhale carbon dioxide - its concentration in the pulmonary capillaries is higher, than in the lungs themselves, so it enters the last, and from there it goes out through the respiratory organs. The same will happen with ethanol., if its concentration in the blood is higher, than in the air in the lungs. Moreover, we even have a device, which uses this feature of the human body - a breathalyzer.
However, if you think, that for sobering up you will only need to breathe well - do not rush. This solution will save you more than just ethanol., but also from carbon dioxide, which will lead to loss of consciousness. Many people know, that excess carbon dioxide levels harm the body, however, its insufficient amount is also not a positive factor - in this case, the vessels of the brain are narrowed, blocking access to normal oxygen supply.
Nonetheless, it does not mean, that this idea cannot be applied in practice. So in 2020, an article appeared in the journal Scientific Reports, where as a potential solution it was proposed to simply increase the amount of carbon dioxide inhaled by people. The authors of the article conducted an experiment - they collected volunteers, gave them vodka to drink, and then put masks on them, in which air with the same content of carbon dioxide entered, as in the lung capillaries of the subjects. Thus, the concentration of gas in the lungs and circulatory systems of people was equalized, and they were able to exhale ethanol and not disturb the concentration of carbon dioxide in the body.
of course, the results were not long in coming - the subjects, wearing masks, sober in 3 times faster, than those, who were not wearing masks. Of course, don't expect, that carbon dioxide bottles will soon be in all bars and clubs, but nothing prevents the use of this method in cases of alcohol poisoning. At the moment, the only solution is hemodialysis, in which human blood is literally filtered through a special apparatus, which in an emergency may not be at hand. That is why, in some cases, the carbon dioxide method may not only become a more convenient and faster alternative to removing alcohol from the body., but also literally saving someone's life.
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