Why do you have to use the bathroom so much after having some adult drinks?

Question

I had some drinks and have used the bathroom at 5 times in the past hour, why?

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Answer 1

The common chemical in alcoholic drinks is ethanol. When you burn – or combust – ethanol (C2H5OH) in air (which contains oxygen, O2), the final products obtained are carbon dioxide gas (CO2) and water (H2O). Looking at this reaction is important as it produces the same products as does the metabolism of ethanol in the liver,

So when your liver metabolizes alcohol it produces water. It’s not just flushing the alcohol out with water or that it’s a diuretic, but that your body is making water out of the ethanol, and actually making slightly more water than the ethanol that was there, 1:1.17