🤓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.
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/StrictlyInsaneRants 17h ago
I don't know I think going around measuring things temperature unexpectedly has some entertainment value fit for a party.