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The effect of alcohol on dehydration.

Humans have been producing and drinking alcohol for thousands of years and it has countless uses in everyday life. However, we are most interested in what effect its consumption can have on dehydration. It turns out that it has a huge one.

However, to fully realise how much alcohol can affect dehydration, just consider the fact that following the consumption of around 330 ml, the body will produce around 500 ml of urine!

Generally speaking, one serving of alcohol will cause you to pass an extra 120 ml of urine over your normal urine output per hour, or about 1 ml per kilogram - that's 50 ml for a 50 kg person and 100 ml for a 100 kg person.

This extra urine excretion means that dehydration and the dreaded hangover are almost guaranteed if you drink larger quantities of alcoholic beverages at one time.

This effect applies to all alcohol - beer, wine or spirits.

Why does this happen?

 Bearing in mind that beer is about 95% water and 5% alcohol, the liver converts this 5% into about the same amount of water. The reason is that alcohol affects, the pituitary gland, specifically the part that regulates the amount of water in our body.

The pituitary gland produces a hormone called vasopressin, one of whose jobs is to reduce urination when we start to become dehydrated. ADH (vasopressin) is released to send a signal to the body to reduce urine production and conserve water.

Alcohol reduces vasopressin production, which in turn increases urine production. Because alcohol affects the brain very quickly, urine production also increases very quickly just after alcohol consumption.

So what can we do?

Drinking water will help, but not completely:

Drinking 120ml of water for every glass of alcohol consumed - or about 170ml for a beer - will help prevent dehydration and hangover, but will not eliminate them.

The body will only retain about half or even a third of the extra water you drink. It will excrete most of it with your urine and you will still be dehydrated at the end of the evening.

So drinking a glass of water with every alcoholic drink will certainly help to minimise dehydration and hangovers. However, increased urination will also negatively affect our body's electrolyte levels, including sodium, magnesium and potassium. This can lead to an electrolyte imbalance, which is linked to other hangover symptoms such as headaches, nausea, malaise and body aches.

Therefore, a good option is to consume an an electrolyte drink that has been formulated to provide optimal hydration and replenish lost minerals. This will help keep hangovers to a minimum.

When choosing an electrolyte drink, it is advisable to choose a hypotonicwhich, by rehydrating faster than water will be the most optimal solution. One HID-RATION™ tablet equals as much as 500 ml of an electrolyte hypotonic drink, which is perfect for this role.

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Of course, it is important to rememberthat all the water in the world or electrolytes will not prevent other negative effects of alcohol. Both those relating to health and those in the area of social behaviour. It is therefore worth raising awareness and also educating your employees about the negative effects of excessive alcohol consumption.

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