Alcohol is eliminated faster from the body thanks to hyperventilation

It is a discovery that could save thousands of lives. According to an article in Guardian, Canadian researchers have found that hyperventilation can dramatically increase the rate at which the body metabolizes alcohol. With 41,000 deaths a year in France, according to Public Health France, alcohol is the second-largest preventable cause of death after tobacco. Globally, three million people die each year from alcohol-related causes, and emergency room doctors have few effective tools to treat acute alcohol poisoning.

In an article published this week in the magazine Scientific reports, a group of Toronto researchers describes how a device that regulates carbon dioxide levels can remove alcohol much faster than conventional treatments.

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Keep CO levels constant₂ in the blood

The device is the size of a briefcase and delivers carbon dioxide to users from a tank, ensuring that CO levels₂ remain constant in the blood? thus avoiding dizziness and nausea during hyperventilation.

Principal investigator Joseph Fisher, an anesthesiologist and senior scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, said hospitals are often powerless in the event of alcohol poisoning. Currently the only intervention […] Read more