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How long does it take your body to process alcohol for there to be no detection in breath, urinalyisis, and blood? Is there any thing that speeds it up or slows it down, (diet, excersise, sugar, water)?

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Hi and welcome to JA.

Alcohol passes quickly from your mouth into your stomach and small intestine, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream. It's then circulated through your liver and on to your heart, lungs and brain. The faster you absorb the alcohol, the higher your blood alcohol level will be, and the more alcohol in your blood, the greater its effect will be. Absorption is more rapid if you:

    * drink quickly
    * add a fizzy mixer
    * drink on an empty stomach
    * are small, young or female

Your body is cleansed of all alcohol by your liver as the blood flows through. This is a slow process. Alcohol is eliminated from the body at about one unit (10ml) of alcohol per hour. So, the alcohol in one pint of ordinary strength lager will take two hours to pass out of your body. If you drink a lot in the evening you may still be over the limit in the morning. And, drinks at lunchtime could have a top-up effect, and again, could make you over the limit.

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Reply to Salcom's Post: Thank you for your reply. Just so I understand I had 1 12oz beer and 1 shot. So you are saying that it will take about 12 hours for all of the alcohol to be processed and undetected?

Hi and welcome to JA.

As I understand you had following quantity of spirit and Beer combination.

One x shot of spirits, which would take one hour.

I am not clear about quantity of beer you took, if you can clarify? But If you read above. 1 pint of larger would take two hours. And if you took say for instance, 2 pint of beer, the total time required for alcohol to come out of your body would be 5 hours. 4 hours for 2 pint of beer and 1 hours for 1 shot of spirit.

I hope this is helpful.

Cheers!

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