How to sober up quickly

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Simple and safe ways to help you come to your senses.

For starters, the bad news. Intoxication comes when alcohol is already in the blood, and we cannot get it out of there. Ethanol is processed by enzymes at a strictly defined rate, which we do not influence, so it is technically impossible to sober up quickly. But you can come to your senses and concentrate in order to call a taxi, get to bed, or at least refrain from stupid things.

What to do

Stop drinking alcohol

When you are overloaded with alcohol, adding more to yourself is the worst idea. We stop the booze and do not look for something to drink so that it will let go.

Start drinking tea

You will have to drink a lot, a lot. The more we drink, the more we excrete, and we need to excrete in order to remove the decomposition products of alcohol, get rid of nausea and dehydration. Therefore, you need to enter the "drink and pee" mode.

It is allowed to use water (only not carbonated!), Juice, compote, tea. But when drunk, it is difficult to force yourself to swallow just water or even juice, but sweet tea, as a rule, comes in easier. However, if you do not like tea, but are able to drink water, do as you like.

But your favorite strong coffee works worse. Caffeine constricts blood vessels, helps to become more active, but in the end it does not contribute to detoxification, that is, it does not eliminate intoxication. Worse, temporary mobilization after coffee can give the false impression that everything is in order and you are normal, and this leads to the most surprising and not always pleasant discoveries.

Tea also contains caffeine, but there is less of it, so you will be able to cheer up a little, but there is no longer to deceive your feelings.

Take sorbents

When you just realized that you went overboard, take sorbents. They interfere with the absorption of alcohol, and something from the drink will not enter the bloodstream. Sorbents have no retroactive force, that is, you will not sober up, but at least you will not get drunk.

Have a snack

This is also a way to slow down the absorption of alcohol if you drank a glass and realized that it was unnecessary.

Don't resist nausea

When everything is floating in front of your eyes and you feel nauseous, perhaps vomiting is a good solution. If some alcohol remains in the stomach, then it will not enter the bloodstream. In addition, the body will not be distracted by digestion when it is already busy processing ethanol. Not to become sober from this, but the oppressive feeling of nausea will recede, and this is already better than nothing.

Move

It is best to walk in the fresh air with as fast a gait as the condition allows. It helps to focus and recover a little.

Take a shower

A cold shower is a bad idea. It, of course, acts roughly like strong coffee, but its sobering effect is false. But you can earn a vasospasm or even a heart attack while drunk under a cold shower. So the water should be warm. And, in fact, you need a shower to wait out the most unpleasant moments in it, because it's easier that way.

Massage your hands, feet and ears

These are simple actions that help you focus on the sensations, increase the blood flow to your head (if we are talking about rubbing your ears), so that it will be easier for you to focus for a while.

Go to sleep

All of these half measures help to recover a little, but you can sober up only with time. It is clear that it is preferable to spend this time in a dream. It's better to even take a 30-minute nap on a chair to gain strength than overpower yourself.

But never go to bed if you can barely contain your nausea. Either wait until it gets better, induce vomiting, or make sure there is someone near you who can follow you asleep. Otherwise, you run the risk of choking on vomit in a drunken sleep.

What not to do

Many sites give more tips on how to sober up quickly. The effect is based on one thing: while you try everything, it will take some time and you will feel better. But some of these methods are hazardous to health. So, you don't need:

1. Smoke. The blood is already a killer cocktail. Where else is there nicotine?
2. Drink medicine. Do not combine any medications with alcohol intake. First, if you come up with such a brilliant idea, you are no longer able to read the instructions. Secondly, drugs are eliminated in the same way as alcohol: mainly by the liver and kidneys, which are already overloaded. Thirdly, you are unlikely to be able to correctly assess your condition if medications with alcohol cause side effects.
3. Sniff the ammonia. Unless you want to vomit.
4. Go to the bathhouse. The bath really brings you to life, but it's not worth getting into a hot steam room when drunk: there is a high risk of getting burned, overheating or getting a heart attack. So this is the way for the very healthy and not very drunk.
5. Train. It's just not safe when you're drunk. You are more likely to get hurt rather than sober up.