Quote Originally Posted by MacWQ33
That's a pretty dangerous game Hock...LOL...even I'll say that.

Question about alcohol poisoning...is it 100% that you have to go to the hospital and have your stomach pumped? Or are there like different levels to it.
Speaking as a former fire department paramedic, no, it's not certain that you have to go get your stomach pumped. Alcohol's absorbed so quickly that that's not how they treat it anyway, generally. They usually just give people fluids to help add non-alchol fluid volume to the bloodstream, keep them from aspirating vomit, monitor their levels of consciousness, check bloodwork to monitor blood-alcohol concentrations and liver health, administer oxygen, and wait and hope for the best. Sometimes they give IV potassium and magnesium if the person is very dehydrated from vomiting.

Drunkeness, as you know, has varying degrees. Alcohol's a depressant, and so when folks drink too much too fast and get their blood-alcohol levels over a certain point, they can depress their heart, respiratory and neurological systems to the point of unconsciousness, coma, and death. The other danger is that a person becomes unconscious and then throws up and asphyxiates on the vomit. Even if a person doesn't die from alcohol poisoning, he can have lasting brain and neurological damage and lasting liver damage. It's not a good thing at all.
birdgirl73 Reviewed by birdgirl73 on . You Know You're A Bit Too Drunk When.... You are taking shots of Patron and no longer need to chase it. Or when you start giving away shots of Patron to everyone at the party (it's a bit pricey at $50 a liter). Or when you put on the Karoke option on the television (never knew about this until last night)...and everyone's trying to keep up with the words, and all that comes out are a slurred combination of babbles and mumbles. Or when in the morning you need to go to one friend's house to get your cell phone, another friend's Rating: 5