Why do you puke after drinking alcohol?

Have you ever wondered why the room starts spinning and your stomach starts churning after a night of hard drinking? Or why your body feels like it’s about to give up on you while you’re clinging to that porcelain throne for dear life? Trust me, you’re not alone. Almost everyone who likes to drink has had at least one instance in their life where they’ve puked after excessive boozing.

You might be tempted to blame it all on those pesky tequila shots, but there’s actually a lot more going on inside your body when alcohol is involved.

Fist things first: How does alcohol work?

Alcohol is like an uninvited guest who has made himself comfortable in our house without seeking permission from anyone. As soon as we consume a drink, it goes into our stomachs and starts getting absorbed into our bloodstream via the small intestine. Our livers then get busy metabolizing this toxic substance (yes, alcohol is indeed toxic). When everything works smoothly, we feel happy and relaxed (cue euphoria) because alcohol affects two neurotransmitters – GABA and dopamine – within the brain; lowering inhibitions while raising levels of pleasure by boosting dopamine production.

However despite its effects,alcohol can disrupt many internal processes, such as dehydrating us or making us dizzy or drowsy. And one major issue caused by extreme drinking sessions – EXPULSION- which results generally in puking!

Why do people vomit after heavy drinking?

Mostly People tends to throw up when they cross limits during a social gathering yet little do they know what exactly causes them to infamously “ralf-out”.
While different factors are involved in individual cases,(factors including how much/wht kind/person’s age/other medications taken with ALCOHOL /and last but not the least one’s tolerance to ALCOHOL. Because all these factors also impacts how quickly the blood alcohol concentration (BAC)increases, which means how much time it’ll take for you to reach your limit).

But there’s a scientific reason behind puking too.

So can we infer that the need of isolation cells in bars due to frequent chunder sessions are because of these different variables as well? Well, not exactly. Whilst every mechanism causing expulsion is complex in its own way but most common cause could be attributed to two processes:gastric irritation and vestibular dysfunction.

Gastric Irritation

Gastritis (inflammation/irritation within stomach lining) causes increase in acid production when consuming drinks after dinner/champagne brunch –which might go along with the acidity of certain mixers – this stimulation leads to more than usual secretion from vomit center which messages brain that body needs help flushing out toxic material . Translation: barf bags at-the-ready!

Vestibular Dysfunctions

The sensory part of our ear which controls balance called ‘vestibule’ gets disturbed during drinking as alcohol acts like a sedative on whole nervous system – unfortunately not just responsible for making us feel happily drunk/highly confident- leading instead to unwanted vertigo symptoms similar to seasickness or motion-sickness .

Vestibular dysfunction occurs specifically when semicircular canals within inner ears gives inappropriate signals regarding movements made by our heads/spinning sensation thus confusing/confounding neurons involved enough that they emit misinterpretated information triggering vomiting reflexes.

In other words, it seems like an innocent night with free-flowing drinks can make even inner mechanisms who’re responsible for maintaining perfect balance inside our head become utterly confused and flustered!

Quenching dehydration rather than thirst!

Water inherently becomes incredibly vital asset once the night starts heading towards embarrassing journey down memory lane. Not only it balances number of drinks consumed; but the addition of hydrating agents ’like salt & electrolytes’ can be extremely beneficial to counteract nausea during intake . If not for such hydration, alcohol sticks to digestive tract and has no way to flush out often appearing a need of instant expulsion from toxic metabolites.

Hangovers: Your body’s revenge

As if puking wasn’t bad enough already…we have hangovers too! Understandably popping ‘advil’ with an entire Gatorade is universally recognized as the perfect cure right? Surprisingly though, we’ve been fooling ourselves about that one.
Hangovers are nothing less than last-ditch effort made by your organs in retaliation against torturous drinking you put through them by utterly crippling themselves till one can barely function properly until this episode resolves resulting in “never again will I drink” promises from countless people over centuries.

Now how does all that work?
Your liver gets so loaded wih ughIitfty substances like Acetaldehyde (toxic substance comprised only when liver tries breaking down Alcohol)another collateral damage oxidants/stress hormones which furthers exhausts system triggering immune response =DEFENSE MECHANISM-kicking into high gear making one feel terrible overall.

Not exactly thee best kind reminder humanity could’ve came up with what drinking way more than necessary would really cost- us!

Don’t let “just one more” get the better of you!

If these explanations weren’t enough yet convincing/reasons still exist behind why some wake up wishing for time machine instead keep gulping down their martinis – because they just couldn’t resist after hearing those two little words knocking reason off completely: “Just One More!” while going about bedtime stories, here are few other reasons/undersightful scenarios/excuse-making attempt(s)why throwing caution to wind seems like good Enough gamble:

1) social triggers : Friends need a drinking buddy, or to back up another’s decision to have ‘one more shot’.
2) Resistance: Like in some cultures where people repeatedly keep announcing and questioning one’s ability or masculinity/femininty quite forcefully leading to the mentality of doing it even if they may not want/feel like anymore.
3) For Some, ALCOHOL = Enhancer .As contrary as these little messengers turned out sometimes – But alas- alcohol can truly aid creativity with pleasure receptors’ dopamine production kicking into overdrive leading to unintentional alcoholic experiments/revelation ! Anyways ,despite fascinating topics this could induce -losing the debate due to consequent vomiting probably isn’t thee most dignified way for winning an argument!

Moral of story:
The next time you plan on being Bob-the-builder-with-a-few-too-many-martinis under your belt just remember that once sake of low hangover-costs might sound viable during pre game planning but couldn’t possibly be compensated from post-party bustle which-well-absolutely ain’t worth it.

Drink Responsibly (try at least!)

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