<p>Does drinking alcohol get rid of minor sicknesses such as a cold? Alcohol is used to disinfect wounds and prepare for surgery (saw it on Lost) because it kills bacteria. And someone drunk will have lots of it in their blood throughout his/her body. Will it go to work killing germs? </p>
<p>Not trying to find an excuse to drink but would like to know. </p>
<p>On the other hand it can weaken your body by putting your liver to work making you more sick?</p>
<p>No, it temporarily lowers your immune system. Sharing drinks is also a common way to catch things.</p>
<p>well, if you’re taking anything with acetaminophen (tylenol) it is a VERY BAD IDEA because they use the same enzymes in the liver, and you will either get alcohol or acetaminophen poisoning.</p>
<p>If you aren’t taking meds, i still dont think it will work, when you pour alcohol on a wound to clean it it’s usually 70%+, whereas you would probably not be drinking anything more than 40%. The BAC of your blood will probably not go above 20% (otherwise you’ll probably start vomiting, which is probably worse than your cold) and so it probably isnt powerful enough to act like rubbing alcohol.</p>
<p>A BAC of .20% is dangerous, 20% is magnitudes off…</p>
<p>oh seriously, the .2 is in percentages already? I guess i should have thought of that myself, it does make sense, even more evidence that it wouldn’t work.</p>
<p>0.05% you can feel
0.08% is illegal to drive in most (all?) states
0.15% is dangerous
0.25% or so is fatal for many
0.50% is somewhere near the world record
70% is something you might use to sanitize</p>
<p>So no, a sanitation effect just isn’t gonna happen.</p>
<p>Hmm, but isn’t the alcohol staying in your system for a while? So it circulates and kills germs until it is removed. It has longer contact with your blood (and is immersed in it) as opposed to medical alcohol which is just poured onto the wound. </p>
<p>It may not be an effective treatment but still it still yield marginal positive effects?</p>
<p>It’s not even the same kind of alcohol that one would use for anitseptic purposes. Alcohol is a poison. Are you seriously asking this question?</p>
<p>Yes, alcohol (yes ethanol though the sanitizers used in hospitals are usually methyl alcohol based) kills things, but at the concentrations in your blood it’s no where near enough to do anything. The yeast used in brewing of beer can create environments upwards of 15% alcohol, and still be alive.</p>
<p>There is no antiseptic properties of alcohol once it has enter your bodies, simply b/c it is far too dilute. I have heard of using vodka to store razors and this is appropriate due to the higher alcohol concentration (usually 40 or 50%).</p>
<p>“0.05% you can feel
0.08% is illegal to drive in most (all?) states
0.15% is dangerous
0.25% or so is fatal for many
0.50% is somewhere near the world record
70% is something you might use to sanitize”</p>
<p>At 0.12% one’ inhibitions are lowered to the point that one begins to spew his anti-Semitic beliefs.</p>
<p>.15% is not dangerous at all, trust me…i’d know.</p>
<p>I agree, 0.15% is not dangerous for most people…0.18% is getting to dangerous, 0.2% is very dangerous for everyone but heavy, regular drinkers, and 0.25% is near-death.</p>
<p>Repeating much of the same:
<a href=“http://www.radford.edu/~kcastleb/bac.html[/url]”>http://www.radford.edu/~kcastleb/bac.html</a></p>
<p>Remember that it affects everyone differently.</p>
<p>“.15% is not dangerous at all, trust me…i’d know.”</p>
<p>Thanks for being a jackass.</p>