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Sweating, breathing, and going to the bathroom excrete only a small amount of the alcohol—which is why most screening tests require a blood sample. The alcohol will be detectable in your bloodstream far longer than it will for a simple breath test.
Using a breath test, one ounce of alcohol is generally no longer detectable in one to two hours, depending on the size and sex of the person. This also assumes one, one-ounce drink of alcohol, with no alcohol ingested for several hours or days before that. One ounce of alcohol will have a greater effect on a 100-pound female than it will on a 300-pound male. And whether fair or not, alcohol stays in a female’s system longer than a male’s because of the fact that women metabolize alcohol differently than men do.
A blood test, however, can detect smaller amounts of alcohol and for longer periods. Small amounts of alcohol ingestion (one to three ounces) may still be detectable in the blood ten to twelve hours later—again, depending on the person. These figures are also for a non-habitual user, or the occasional drinker. A habitual drinker’s blood and internal organs will "store" the alcohol from successive drinking sessions, and it takes much longer—sometimes up to a week—to eliminate enough alcohol from the system to pass a blood alcohol screening.
To metabolize alcohol out of your system, it must pass through your liver. A perfectly-functioning liver can metabolize an ounce of alcohol per hour—about one standard drink. Heavy drinkers, whose liver may be impaired, may metabolize much less than that, and would need to allow a much longer time before taking a blood alcohol test.
You cannot speed up your liver’s functioning. This is why drinking large amounts quickly or chugging drinks can become fatal. What the liver can’t process, the blood must store, and alcohol poisoning can be the result. If planning for a blood alcohol test, it’s best not to drink any alcoholic drink for several hours to a day or two prior to the test date to give yourself the best chance for a clear test result.
How long alcohol stays in the blood stream of a person depends on the rate of metabolism. The rate at which alcohol is metabolized is about .015 BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration) in an hour. Accordingly, a person with blood alcohol concentration of .15 becomes totally free of alcohol content in his bloodstream after about ten hours.
There is no way to speed up alcohol metabolism. Alcohol metabolism rate remains the same irrespective of taking non-alcoholic drinks, exercising, bathing or similar activities. A person can only control the level of blood alcohol concentration by drinking less. Thus the only way to get rid of alcohol from your system fast enough is to control the level of blood alcohol concentration.
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Your best to pace yourself to one drink an hour, or to drink a fluid like water in between drinks to help your system along and never drink on an empty stomach, that's just asking for trouble.
This can be affected by your metabolism, what you have eaten recently and physical activity.
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pass a alcohol blood test. Sorry...
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