Why and How do alcohoic drinks dehydrate you?!
Why and How do alcohoic drinks dehydrate you?
I dont know the science behind it and would really like to know.
Thanks
Answers: Alcohol will immediately be absorbed through the lining of your stomach and small intestine into the bloodstream. Excess alcohol remains in the blood stream, resulting in an increased blood alcohol content (BAC). Ninety percent of the alcohol you ingest is metabolized, while the other 10% is excreted through urine and breathing.
And yes, alcohol is diuretic. This means it encourages the body to lose more water than it takes on by halting the production of the body's anti-diuretic hormone. Thus, you need to go to the toilet excessively and so speeding up the loss of fluid from your body, leading to dehydration. Alcohol is a natural diuretic. Which is why when you are drinking you pee a lot! Therefore you can become dehydrated somewhat from it. If you get drunk and know that the next morning will be hangover city, drink water before going to bed, if you do, you wont have a hangover! Try it, it works! because alcohol takes water from your body as it passes through (which is why you pee a lot when you're drinking!). I saw it on Brainiac at the weekend!!! Don't know anything more scientific than that tho! alcoholic drinks dehydrate you because they make u wee more which gets rid of all ur fluids. thats why you also get a headache. drink a pint of water before you go to bed as this will help with the dehydration and the hang over. i dont believe if u drink water u dont get a hangover, the reason for the hangover is not only dehydration but lack of sugar and salts into the body...hence why some people get the shakes the next day from being hungover and also lack of vitamin c, my recommendation is a packet of salt and vinegar chrisps the next day, some candy, okay maybe the pint of water the night before with a slice of dry bread to absorb the alcohol while u sleep, and dont forget the orange juice and maybe some cranberry juice to heal the liver from the night before I got the drink water tip on here and it works a treat. its a diuretic ,the day after you drink beer you need to drink lots of water. it good to eat bannas to because it also lowers your pottasium.