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How long does it take alcohol to get out of your system?

  • 12-07-2008 9:00pm
    #1
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    So they give some guidelines here: http://www.drinkaware.ie/aware.php?ID=39


    So if you have 5 pints then you should wait 10 hours before driving. Fine, easy enough.

    Do the 10 hours stop from when you finish drinking? Or what?

    Say you have a pint an hour between 10pm-4am. Does this mean the first pint is out of your system by 12am ?


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  • #2
    Latchy
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    Takes roughly 24 hrs for alcohol to effectly leave your system .That's allowing for sleep periods afterwards to .You can sweat it out quicker by going for a jog etc,but you might still feel like **** for a good few hrs later .


  • #3
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    All these guidelines are extremely vague, I wish they would have the simple version and explain what happens and what factors matter.

    e.g. if they say you can have 1 pint and drive it is very vague. A 30stone alcoholic who has eaten christmas dinner and then sips on a pint over 1 hour is going to have a much lower blood alcohol level in his system than an underweight dwarf who never drank before who has the same pint and lashes it down in one go on an empty stomach.

    Some will say this is obvious, but many are completely ignorant of it, I have heard bizarre tales of ignorance about alcohol and drink driving.

    If you are in any doubt at all just do not drive, do not be guessing or trying to bend the limits. You see people do this on diets, "my rule is no food after 8pm" so they are lashing down food just before 8! Use common sense, there is no loophole, if you are over you are over the limit there is no point trying to tell the judge "but the ads told me I would be fine"

    It depends on loads of factors, if you drink 5 pints over 5 hours your blood alcohol level may never go over the limit, if you have eaten it absorption is slowed.

    I can get the same tipsiness from 2 pints one day, that would take 6 the next.


  • #4
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    latchyco wrote: »
    Takes roughly 24 hrs for alcohol to effectly leave your system .That's allowing for sleep periods afterwards to .You can sweat it out quicker by going for a jog etc,but you might still feel like **** for a good few hrs later .

    If that's the case then i'm always drunk because i don't exercise and have at least one pint every day. By god, my poor liver :eek:


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