I recently read a story about a young man who died of an alcohol OD after drinking a half-liter of spirits.
I have drank close to that much before, and I have seen lots of people drink much more than that, and every single one threw up what they had drunk or passed out only to wake up later on. But in this case, the guy passed out and went into a coma before dying.
It made me wonder, how does anyone die of an alcohol OD? I imagine most people would vomit well before their life was at risk. Was the guy in this story just really unlucky? He wasn’t an alcoholic or anything, he was just a guy who went out expecting to have a good time with his friends, and was dead before the night was even over.
In: Biology
The body absorbs alcohol very quickly, but also processes it very slowly. A sudden intake of alcohol causes the blood to contain a very high level of alcohol very quickly. This causes poisoning with a number of acute symptoms as a result of drops in blood sugar, drops in body temperature, displacement of water from the body (diuresis) and other imbalances from normal function.
The most immediate causes of death are from damage to organs such as the brain from poisoning, seizure, choking on vomit from a reduced gag reflex, hypothermia and breathing disruption.
“Lucky” just means you played Russian roulette with alcohol poisoning and pulled the trigger three times.
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