| 8 grams of alcohol = 1 unit of alcohol. With a healthy liver, it will take one hour for your liver to remove one unit of alcohol.
AA says: "As a general rule of thumb, the major metabolite in alcohol, ethanol, can be detected in your blood for up to 24 hours and in your urine for up to 48 hours.
There are a number of things about what you drink that can vary these figures, including:
Strength of the drink
Quantity consumed
How it is consumed
Frequency of your drinking
The presence of other drugs
Your mood and environment of use.
Other factors specific to you include:
Your tolerance
Your sex and age
Your overall health and well-being
Your general metabolic state.
These variables all interact to make it hard to accurately define a time when it will be out of your system. For further information, please contact your local health practitioner or pathology laboratory." |