Units question...??

Question

I drank about 1/4 of a little bottle of red wine...

and then about 1/3 of a 35cl bottle of vodka...

how many units does this come to...

this was drank over 3-4 hours...

i went hospital... did i have alcohol poisoning?

i was in hospital for 2 hours and had 2 tubes from my right hand

one going in the other coming out.. they were in my viens... so im guessing my blood was filtered...

i vommited for ages and was unconcious... how close was i to dying? and did i have alcohol poisoning?

Answer 1

So 125ml of wine constitutes 1 unit - you drank about 187.5ml (1/4 bottle). This is 1.5 units.

25ml of vodka is one unit so you drank about 120ml vodka (1/3 of 350ml) which is about 4-5 units.

Altogether this makes just over 6 units.

One unit is how much alcohol your body can break down in one hour. So if you were drinking over 3-4 hours at the end of it (if you were drinking steadily) you'd only have had 3-4 units in your blood.

Based on this alcohol poisoning is unlikely but that said everyone is different in terms of how quickly they break down alcohol. Mixing drinks (wine and vodka) can often slow this down - had you been drinking earlier in the day? Were you on any medication? These can both affect the speed at which you metabolise alcohol.

It's possible you had alcohol poisoning or it could have been a reaction. Didn't they tell you at the hospital what was wrong?

In future I'd moderate your drinking just in case!