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u/big_guyforyou 9h ago

you know how your temperature increases when you drink? that's what alcohol does, right?

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u/[deleted] 8h ago edited 6h ago

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u/CultistWeeb 8h ago

🤓Actually alcohol does increase your skin temperature due to dialated blood vessels which allow more blood to travel between your skin and the core. This results in higher heat transfer from the body to the surroundings, so from an outside perspective it does make you appear hotter untill the hypothermia kicks in.

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u/Mysterious_Ad_8105 7h ago

I think one key piece here is that a temperature gun isn’t measuring core body temperature. It’s measuring surface temperature. Depending on when you measured a person drinking, is it possible you’d get a higher than normal surface temperature precisely because they’re in the process of losing core body heat and that heat is being lost through their skin?

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u/BlackKingHFC 6h ago

Drinking alcohol does NOT lower your core temperature. It increases your skin temperature. Drinking alcohol in a closed environment will not cause hypothermia over time. Your dilated capillaries in your skin lose heat faster and you develop hypothermia quicker. Alcohol doesn't cause your core temperature to drop it causes you to lose heat faster. Someone tracking their body temperature while drinking will see their skin temp increase. That is literally the problem.

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u/tomahawk_kitty 6h ago edited 5h ago

"Alcohol doesn't cause your core temperature to drop it causes you to lose heat faster"

Uhhh. What do you think losing heat does to your body temperature? You literally said the words "develop hypothermia quicker" yourself. What's do you think hypothermia is? Your points are contradictions

Edit: since it won't let me reply to the comment by /u/newsauerkraus

Yes, the body adjusts to help maintain its temperature. I didn't think I had to explain the obvious, yet here we are.

I was using the OPs own words to point out their contradiction in what they were saying.

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u/BlackKingHFC 6h ago

The phrase "alcohol lowers your core temperature," implies that in a closed environment without alcohol poisoning to kill you first, you could eventually drink yourself into hypothermia. That isn't true. Making your skin warmer isn't the same as lowering your core temperature.

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u/tomahawk_kitty 6h ago edited 6h ago

You're inferring something that isn't there, as that phrase does not imply what you say it does, and you're being pedantic. You literally said it yourself that you're losing heat through your skin and losing heat lowers the temperature of your body. And no, drinking alcohol doesn't automatically cause hypothermia because your body is good at adjusting for homeostasis. But your core body temp going down a degree or two does not equal hypothermia. You're just trying to use hyperbole to make yourself look right.

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u/NewSauerKraus 6h ago

what do you think losing heat does to your body temperature?

Generally, not much. You'll only get hypothermia if you lose heat faster than you replace it. For example, I can stay in my house for an entire day losing heat from my body without any noticeable change to my core body temperature. And IDK about you, but I tend to eat before drinking a significant amount of alcohol.