How long does it take to detect alchohol in your system?!
Answers: I have to take a urine test on Wednesday. I dont smoke weed or do other drugs and I drink wine OCCASIONALLY. I'm always drinking cranberry juices or even taking laxitives to flush my system. I've had 1 glass of wine tonight, will this show in my urine test?
Eliminating Alcohol From The Body
All of alcohol's effects continue until the ingested alcohol is eliminated by the body.
95% of ingested alcohol is metabolised by the liver through the oxidation of alcohol to acetaldehyde then to acetic acid and finally to carbon dioxide and water The remainder is eliminated through the excretion of alcohol in breath, urine, sweat, feces, breast milk and saliva.
Healthy people eliminate alcohol at a fairly consistent rate. As a rule of thumb, a person will eliminate between 7ml and 12ml of alcohol from their body per hour, with an average of about 9.5ml/hr.
The ability of the body to eliminate alcohol is affected by several factors, with most relating to the water content and fat content of the individual's body:
Weight: In general, the less you weigh the more you will be affected by a given amount of alcohol. Alcohol has a high affinity for water and one's blood alcohol concentration is a function of the total amount of alcohol in one's system divided by total body water. In two individuals with similar body compositions and different weights, the larger individual will achieve lower alcohol concentrations than the smaller one if ingesting the same amount of alcohol.
Level Of Fitness: For people of the same weight, a well muscled individual will be less affected by the same volume of alcohol than someone with a higher percentage of fat. Fatty tissue does not contain very much water and will not absorb very much alcohol, hence more alcohol makes its way into the bloodstream.
Gender: Generally women tend to have a higher percentage of body fat, and thus a lower percentage of body water, and if a man and a woman of the same weight ingest the same amount of alcohol the woman will tend to achieve a higher alcohol concentration. This, of course, would not be true if the woman was very fit and the man was somewhat obese, but on average, this is the case. The differences in alcohol concentration due to average body composition differences based on gender would be between 16% and 10% depending on age.
Although not completely supported by clinical studies, another gender based difference is in the elimination of alcohol. Studies appear to show that women eliminate alcohol from their bodies at a rate 10% greater than that of men which may counteract gender differences in body composition.
Age: Total body water also tends to decrease with age, so an older person will be more affected by the same amount of alcohol. Blood alcohol concentrations may be up to 10% higher in a 60 year old individual compared to a 30 year old individual where their body compositions are similar.
Exercise: Strenuous exercise increases the body's metabolic rate on the one hand, while associated increases in breathing rates and air volumes increase the flow of alcohol across the lung membranes, caused the alcohol to be expelled through breathing at a greater rate. In one study the blood alcohol content of subjects before and after running up a flight of stairs decreased 11-14% after one trip, and 22-25% after two such trips. In another study, a 15% decrease in blood alcohol was reported in subjects following vigorous exercise or hyperventilation.
Tolerance: Tolerance is the diminution of the effectiveness of a drug after a period of prolonged or heavy use of that drug or a related drug (cross-tolerance). There are two types of tolerance at work with alcohol. The first is metabolic tolerance in which the alcohol is metabolized at a higher rate (up to 72% more quickly) in chronic users. Because of the higher metabolic rate for alcohol lower peak blood alcohol concentrations are achieved by chronic alcohol users than the average drinker when the same amount of alcohol is ingested. The second is functional tolerance in which there is an actual change in the organ or system's sensitivity to the drug. Studies have shown that chronic alcohol users can have twice the tolerance for alcohol as an average person. It is important to note however that even in light of these tolerance factors, it has been shown conclusively that even in heavy alcohol users functional impairment is clearly measurable at the blood alcohol concentration levels that are currently used for traffic law enforcement and safety sensitive job performance.
Other factors that effect elimination rates are:
Alcohol Concentraion: It's not how many drinks that you have, but how much alcohol that consume. The concentration of the drinks that one ingest can have a slight effect on the peak alcohol concentration due to the differences in absorption rate of different concentrations of alcohol. Alcohol is most rapidly absorbed when the concentration of the drink is between 10% and 30%. Below 10% the concentration gradient in the gastrointestinal tract is low and slows absorption and the added volumes of liquid involved slow gastric emptying. On the other hand concentrations higher than 30% tend to irritate the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract and the pyloric sphincter, causing increased secretion of mucous and delayed gastric emptying.
Food: Food taken along with alcohol results in a lower, delayed blood alcohol concentration peak (the point of greatest intoxication). There are two major factors involved in this phenomenon. First, because alcohol is absorbed most efficiently in the small intestine, the ingestion of food can slow down the absorption of alcohol into one's system. The pyloric valve at the bottom of the stomach will close in order to hold food in the stomach for digestion and thus keep the alcohol from reaching the small intestine. While alcohol will be absorbed from the stomach it is a slower and less efficient transition. Second and equally important is the fact that alcohol elimination rates are inversely proportional to alcohol concentration in the blood. Therefore the suppressed levels of alcohol due to food ingestion cause the body to eliminate the alcohol that is absorbed at a faster rate. The type of food ingested (carbohydrate, fat, protein) has not been shown to have a measurable influence on this affect but the larger the meal and closer in time between eating and drinking, the greater the diminution of peak alcohol concentration. Studies have shown reductions in peak alcohol concentration (as opposed to those of a fasting individual under otherwise similar circumstances) of 9% to 23%.
Yeah
no
24 hours it says in your system from the time you drink it.
yea... itll show...were u driving and did the test or wut?
no
One glass of wine will not indicate you're a binger. If you are worried about a urine test, why you consume anything?
Not it will not show up if it was only just once glass. You can also flush your system out if need be.
It depending on how much you weight. I glass of wine by next morning would not show any.
Alcohol completely leaves the system in a maximum of 24 hours. 1 glass of wine will be metabolised by the body completely in about 3 - 4 hours. You needn't worry about that anyway. Unless you were on an all night binge, no one would care or know...
You should be fine by Wednesday. I just hope they don't do a hair test on ya. Alcohol can last in you hair for a year.
ALCOHOL IS EVIL ! I learned that in health class. :)
no you have like 24 hours and then it is out!=)
12 hours for one glass
Drink plenty of water and if you have cranberry then drink that also. As long as it was only one glass then if you drink plenty you will have flushed it out long before your urine test.
Dont worry about it, it wont.