You might feel depressed after drinking because alcohol itself is a depressant. Drinking activates the reward system in your brain and triggers dopamine release, so alcohol often seems to have a stimulating effect — at first.

There are seven stages of alcohol intoxication.

• Sobriety or low-level intoxication. A person is sober or low-level intoxicated if they have consumed one or fewer alcoholic drinks per hour.
• Euphoria.
• Excitement.
• Confusion.
• Stupor.
• Coma.
• Death.

According to Duke University, the inability to remember anything from a night out usually occurs after a person has had five or more drinks. Alcohol affects short-term memory by slowing down how nerves communicate with each other in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

However, there are some things they can do to feel more alert and appear soberer.

1. Coffee. Caffeine may help a person feel alert, but it does not break down alcohol in the body.
2. Cold showers. Cold showers do nothing to lower BAC levels.
3. Eating and drinking.
4. Sleep.
5. Exercise.
6. Carbon or charcoal capsules.

Alcohol stifles reasoning skills and contemplating repercussions. As a result, people are more likely to tell the truth while intoxicated, offering up brutally honest, unfiltered opinions. And without the fear of consequences, alcohol can give people the courage to do or say things they ordinarily wouldn’t entertain.

Just think about it: Alcoholics can stay drunk all day for months or years at a time until the first health issues pop up.

Benefits of throwing up the alcohol If a person throws up shortly after having a drink, the body may not have absorbed the alcohol, potentially lessening its effects.

FACT: Research has shown that vomiting cannot get rid of all the calories ingested, even when done immediately after eating. A vomit can only remove up to about half of the calories eaten – which means that, realistically, between half to two thirds of what is eaten is absorbed by the body.

If you are aware you’ve injured yourself, chances are you won’t do anything about it. At this point you may experience nausea and/or start vomiting (keep in mind that for some people, a lower blood alcohol level than . 20% may cause vomiting). Your gag reflex is impaired, so you could choke if you do throw up.

Once you can keep liquid down, you should also try to eat. It’s a good idea to start with small amounts of blander foods, such as dry toast, bananas, broth, rice, applesauce, or crackers. This is known as the BRAT diet. Don’t force yourself to continue eating if you start to feel nauseous.

Bile is usually yellow or green. Clear vomit is also caused by: Gastric outlet obstruction.

Do not eat or drink anything for several hours after vomiting. Sip small amounts of water or suck ice chips every 15 minutes for 3-4 hours. Next, sip clear liquids every 15 minutes for 3-4 hours. Examples include water, sports drinks, flat soda, clear broth, gelatin, flavored ice, popsicles or apple juice.

If you vomit bile more than once, a medical condition might be causing the problem. One common cause is bile reflux, which happens when bile backs up from your liver into your stomach and esophagus. You can develop reflux after gastric surgery. Bile reflux is not the same as acid reflux.

Throwing up bile may not require medical attention if it has a clear cause and resolves with conservative methods, such as rest and rehydration. However, anyone who is persistently throwing up bile should see a doctor. Anyone who is throwing up bile and has indications of bile reflux should see their doctor.

Bile and acid reflux have similar symptoms and can happen at the same time. They’re caused by either bile, a fluid made in your liver that helps digestion, or stomach acid moving up through your esophagus. Both can cause a sour taste in your mouth, in addition to: heartburn.

Bile has a smell, but it’s not a particularly strong one. Cancerous growths don’t smell like anything in particular (although dogs can be trained to smell certain markers in human urine). Brains don’t smell, either. There are certain surgeries, though, that even surgeons think smell bad.

Stool color is generally influenced by what you eat as well as by the amount of bile — a yellow-green fluid that digests fats — in your stool. As bile pigments travel through your gastrointestinal tract, they are chemically altered by enzymes, changing the pigments from green to brown.

Excess bile acids entering the colon can cause the classic signs and symptoms of bile acid malabsorption (BAM), including watery stool, urgency and fecal incontinence. Although BAM has been associated with diarrhea for nearly 50 years, it remains an underrecognized and underdiagnosed cause of chronic diarrhea.

Symptoms of a blocked bile duct include: Yellowing of the skin (jaundice) or eyes (icterus), from the buildup of a waste product called bilirubin. Itching (not limited to one area; may be worse at night or in warm weather) Light brown urine.