In the New Year, it is rare for friends and relatives to get together, and it is inevitable to drink a few drinks.
How to drink alcohol with minimal physical harm?
Take antidotes, or drink honey, strong tea, coffee?
Which method is really useful?
Make it clear once today, and you will never have to eat messy things to relieve alcohol in the future.
(In order to introduce more clearly, the article is slightly longer, and the impatient can jump directly to Part3 to see the solution, but I hope you will take a few minutes to read it all, after all, it is for your own body)
If you want to detoxify, the first thing you must think of is "decanting sugar, antidote".
It is said that you can "drink the first 2 sake dishes without fear" and "turn wine into water in 10 minutes after drinking".
However, we regret to tell you:
Most of the "antidotes" on the market are deceptive.
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The reason why we dare to say so sure is that we have done a detailed investigation.
The so-called "antidotes" on the market are mainly divided into two categories:
A category you may buy often.
They are health products or health foods with a "blue hat" logo on the packaging. But not really "medicine".
Most of the main ingredients of such "antidotes" are some plant extracts or medicinal and food raw materials, such as turmeric, oyster extract, gardenia, goji berries, salvia, poria, barley seedlings, chitin, etc.
(Source: A shopping platform)
There are also some "high-end products" that may contain nutrients such as protein, vitamins, and certain minerals.
(Ingredient list of imported anti-alcohol liver protection capsules.) Source: A shopping platform)
None of these have proven ingredients that can be detoxified, and they are really useless.
The second category of "antidotes" is mostly available in pharmacies.
They are medicines with the national medicine quasi-character printed on them, and they are indeed medicines.
But if you want to eat them to dissolve the wine, your hopes may also be disappointed.
This type of "antidote" is mainly some chemical components such as naloxone and diuretics.
(Source: A shopping website)
Naloxone is an opioid that can also relieve central inhibition of alcohol and shorten the duration of coma [1].
That said, these drugs may indeed make you feel "more drinkable."
But to put it bluntly, it can only make you sober, but it can't speed up the "detoxification" process of acetaldehyde, the metabolite of alcohol, and it can't reduce the various damage that alcohol does to your body.
These drugs are prescription drugs and can also cause side effects such as mania, and should not be used casually [2]. Even when used in hospital emergencies, it is generally used directly intravenously, rather than sublingually.
In short, no matter which of the above ingredients of the "antidote", there is no clear study to prove that it can increase the amount or activity of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, so it can not play a real antidote!
Eating antidotes indiscriminately may increase the burden on the liver.
If you think that you can "let go" by buying liquor and medicine, it is likely that the result will be drunk in the hospital...
(Source: Nanfang Daily)
You may want to ask, since the antidote is useless, will there be some truth to the "decanting home remedies" such as honey water, strong tea, coffee, and vinegar?
This is indeed what you drink most often after getting drunk.
Unfortunately, they do little.
honey
Although it has been studied that the fructose in honey can shorten the time for blood alcohol to clear [3], this requires too much fructose to be effective, and it is impossible to achieve it by drinking honey water.
Coffee and strong tea
The caffeine in them does not accelerate alcohol metabolism and does not reduce the damage caused by alcohol consumption [4].
Caffeine also has a diuretic effect, which can aggravate your body's dehydration and make drunkenness worse.
(ps: Strong tea has antioxidant tea polyphenols [5], and there is no antidote).
vinegar
After vinegar is drunk into the body, the acetic acid in vinegar will be the same as the acetic acid metabolized by alcohol, and eventually produce carbon dioxide and water, which is not involved in the alcohol metabolism process at all, so drinking vinegar cannot solve the wine.
Seriously, getting drunk is already uncomfortable enough, don't drink these messy things to toss yourself.
Since the antidote drinks the antidote food, there is no way to dissolve the liquor. So there's no way to get comfortable drinking?
Here's the point, please remember everyone who drinks:
The really reliable way is to "delay alcohol absorption" or reduce the physical discomfort of drinking.
You can do this:
1. Eat something before drinking
Eating something can slow the absorption of alcohol.
Foods high in fat, carbs, or protein can delay gastric emptying [6].
That is, before drinking, see what can be eaten on the table, chicken, duck and fish meat or rice, steamed buns, all first pad a little, really useful. (If you're worried about being too energetic, drink yogurt or eat some bread.) ）
2. Drink some water while drinking
Drinking water can reduce the discomfort caused by alcohol dehydration.
Note that we are talking about water, not various drinks.
If the wine and carbonated drinks are mixed, the carbon dioxide will accelerate the absorption of the alcohol into the bloodstream. Wine and coffee, strong tea mixed with drinking, caffeine will make people excited, easy to make people mistakenly think that they are not drunk and drink more.
Ordinary boiled water, it is very good.
Tips:
If your friend or loved one is too drunk to wake up (coma), be sure to let him lie on his side to prevent vomit from being inhaled into the airway and causing choking! Then dial 120 as soon as possible to get to the hospital.
Finally, while you may not want to listen, we would like to remind you:
There is no safe dose of alcohol, and even a drop can be harmful to the body.
If you can drink less, drink less! After all, it is you who is really uncomfortable!
The new year is here again
Thank you all for being with you along the way
Brother Dian is here to wish you all
All the best, peace and joy
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Contributing Authors:
Wang Shaofu
Pharmacist in charge of the Pharmacy Department of Gong'an County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province
Duan Man
Pharmacist in charge of the Department of Pharmacy of Xiaogan Central Hospital in Hubei Province
Gu Chuanling
Registered Dietitian
Reviewers:
Zhao Ning
Deputy Chief Pharmacist of Peking University First Hospital
The cloud has no heart
Ph.D. in Food Engineering, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, USA
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