• Question: if you lie in a bath of alcohol, will you get drunk?

    Asked by adamw1994 to Hywel, Joseph, Patience, Poonam, Rachael on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Joseph Cook answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      The fumes might get you tipsy, but you’d probably need to drink it to get drunk. It would be bad for your skin.

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      Poonam Kaushik answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      With my mouth open or closed? 😀

      Well if someone do this for long his/her body temperature will go down (dnt knw hw much though) and body will be dehydrated heavily! So it is going to effect in very negative manner. Plus if ur mouth is open n alcohol can gety into ur system, effct will be extremely worse, A person might die as well!!!

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      Dr Hywel Jones answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      Hmmm, interesting question. First of all I wouldn’t like to be the one who has to buy it! Alcohol can get in to your system in many ways, with the most common being though your gut (i.e. drinking it) but you could also be affected if it was absorbed in other ways. In a bath full of beer it would be very difficult as the strength is only about 4% and there would not be very many fumes. However, in a bath of Vodka there would be more fumes and you would be breathing these in and absorbing alcohol and so yes you could get drunk if you were in there for long enough. Absorption through the skin is also possible but would be much slower I guess. Absorbtion through other bits (eyes and private parts!) is also possible.

      However, I would not recommend any of the above. Alcohol is a poison and too much can easily kill you.

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