Vomiting is a common symptom in people who drink alcohol. Vomiting helps remove some of the alcohol in the stomach, but vomiting yellow bile after drinking alcohol is a sign of drinking too much and damaging the stomach. Everyone needs to know their own limits on alcohol intake and some foods that help sober up when drunk and vomit yellow bile.
1. Why do you vomit yellow bile after drinking alcohol?
Vomiting is a reflex of the body to help eliminate toxins in the stomach. The vomiting reflex is stimulated by both neural and humoral factors. Alcohol in beer and wine is one of the factors that can activate the vomiting control center in the medulla oblongata. Therefore, vomiting is a common symptom in people who drink alcohol. Vomiting helps eliminate part of the alcohol in the stomach, however, vomiting yellow bile after drinking alcohol is a sign of drinking too much, damaging the stomach. The following is the mechanism that explains why drunk people vomit yellow bile.
Alcohol slows down the digestive activity of the stomach, accompanied by an increase in the concentration of cortisol, beta endorphin as well as norepinephrine and epinephrine in the blood.
Because the stomach's digestion of food is slow, the proteins remaining in the stomach will begin to rot. This process will create toxic substances for the body and can cause vomiting.
The yellow-green fluid is gastric juice and bile, which has a bitter taste. This fluid stimulates the digestive system to increase the secretion of digestive enzymes, which play a role in digesting food and creating an alkaline environment in the intestines. When drinking a lot of alcohol, the pyloric valve will not close tightly, leading to bile refluxing into the stomach, to the esophagus and causing vomiting of yellow bile when drunk.
2. How to limit the condition of vomiting yellow bile after drinking alcohol
Vomiting yellow bile when being drunk is a common problem for people who consume an excessive amount of alcohol. Everyone needs to know their own limits of alcohol intake and some types of alcohol-detoxifying foods to limit the condition of vomiting yellow bile after drinking alcohol.
2.1. Before drinking alcohol
Before drinking alcohol, it is necessary to take foods and drinks that do not contain alcohol. This will help a lot, as it supports dilute the alcohol and reduce its harmful effects. In addition, eating soup or drinking broth to coat a layer of fat on the digestive tract mucosa helps limit alcohol absorption.
2.2. While drinking alcohol
While drinking alcohol, you need to pay attention to the following to avoid getting drunk and vomiting yellow bile:
Drink 1 glass of wine with a glass of water to avoid dehydration complications.
Only drink one type of drink in the same meal. Avoid mixing many types of alcoholic beverages together.
Be careful with alcoholic drinks with sugar, such as margaritas (mixed with tequila, orange liqueur with lemon or fruit juice). These types of cocktails are sweet and easy to drink, which can make you drink more alcohol than you intended.
It takes the body at least 1 hour to metabolize alcohol. Therefore, the interval between each drink should be as far as possible.
When drinking alcohol, you should eat dishes such as salad; bitter melon marinated with ice, stir-fried, boiled, cooked with bean sprouts; jicama, radish, water chestnut, lotus root, sour star fruit, green banana, cucumber with salt...; loach hotpot, clams, mussels, snails, boiled or grilled with lemon juice. Dishes rich in animal protein both reduce alcohol absorption and help neutralize alcohol.
2.3. After drinking alcohol
If you drink alcohol properly and in moderation (60ml of wine or 400ml of beer/day), it will stimulate the digestive system and benefit the cardiovascular system. On the contrary, drinking a lot of alcohol can cause alcohol poisoning, gastric bleeding, cirrhosis, myocardial infarction, memory loss, and accidents, which can lead to death.
If vomiting yellow bile after drinking alcohol lasts for a long time, it will have a negative impact on your health. Mild cases can cause stomach ulcers, more severe cases can cause alcohol poisoning, and can even be life-threatening. Therefore, after getting drunk, you need to take timely measures to quickly sober up. Specifically, the following measures are limited:
- Unbutton your collar, remove your belt, and stay in a cool place but avoid drafts.
- Do not let a drunk person sleep all night or all day without eating or drinking, because it can cause hypothermia and hypoglycemia, which can lead to death. Therefore, after a few hours, you should give them milk or porridge.
- Drink a large amount of water, preferably filtered water or warm water to limit dehydration due to alcohol.
- Drink hot tea or coffee after drinking alcohol.
- Do not give a drunk person liver tonics or folic acid, vitamins B1, B6, etc. to detoxify alcohol or reduce headaches because they are all harmful to the liver.
- When drunk or poisoned by alcohol, do not take paracetamol, aspirin or pain relievers and fever reducers because they will irritate the stomach lining and can cause gastrointestinal bleeding.
- A drunk person can drink a little diluted sugar water to avoid hypoglycemia
You should drink coconut water if you are drunk, because it can relieve the hangover and help the body quickly recover energy. - Celery juice, hot ginger juice or green tea, mint tea can reduce dizziness and nausea when drunk.
- Drunk people can drink a lot of water with milk to reduce the alcohol concentration in the blood, compensate for the loss of water, help the body feel more comfortable, reduce dizziness and headache after waking up.
- Eating is the simplest way to reduce alcohol concentration, reduce the impact of alcohol on the stomach and improve health. Drunk people can eat biscuits, snacks or bananas.
- Eat fruits with a lot of water (such as star fruit, watermelon, pear, grapes) or jams.
- Do not eat persimmons because it will make you drunker
- Limit sour drinks such as lemon juice, orange juice because it stimulates the stomach, easily causing vomiting.
- According to folk experience, sober up by drinking raw tapioca starch water; drinking dong leaf juice (crushed); decoction of orange peel, tangerine, lemon or tapioca flower steeped in tea.
If these measures have been applied but the condition of vomiting yellow bile after drinking alcohol still does not improve, it may be alcohol poisoning. At this time, the patient should be taken to the nearest medical facility for timely diagnosis and treatment.
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