Canadian researchers say they've developed a game-changing method to treat alcohol poisoning — and it involves literally breathing alcohol out of the body by hyperventilating. He hopes it could one day serve as a powerful tool in any hospital emergency department. Eliminating alcohol faster than liver aloneSubjects each drank about half a glass of vodka and were able to eliminate alcohol three times faster than through the liver alone, says Fisher. Many people brought into hospital emergency wards for drinking too much alcohol have to wait until their livers metabolize it. (CBC)He says he discounted the possibility hyperventilation could also be used to treat alcohol poisoning until about two years ago when a colleague suggested it.

Source: CBC News November 12, 2020 18:33 UTC