It is not this first warming step that actually feels especially cold. It's what happens next. Once warmed up to body temperature, alcohol can evaporate easily (unlike a piece of metal!). As the alcohol evaporates (or any liquid in fact, but alcohol evaporates easily, so it feels more cold than say, water), it goes from a liquid to a gas. The evaporation process takes energy, and that energy goes into breaking apart the liquid alcohol molecules to make isolated alcohol molecules in the gas phase. If it's on your skin, it takes energy from you skin, in the form of heat. If something removes heat from your skin, that feels cold to you. Evaporation is a process that requires a lot of energy, so it can feel quite cold.
Evaporative cooling is an extremely effective method to cool anything (not just skin!), and works for any liquid as long at it is fairly easy to go from a liquid to a gas. For instance, the process of going from a gas to a liquid and back again is how your fridge keeps things cold too (although your fridge doesn't do it with alcohol).
In more technically accurate chemical terms, evaporation is an endothermic process. That means that the process consumes energy. This is because to turn a liquid into a gas, you have to break all of the intermolecular forces that hold that liquid together (these can include Van der Waals foces, dipole-dipole forces, and in the case of an alcohol, hydrogen bonding). Breaking all those attractive interactions requires a lot of energy. When alcohol evaporates on your skin, your body is supplying most of the energy to break all of those intermolecular interactions. Any endothermic reaction will feel cold. When you use one of those instant cold-packs, a special endothermic chemical reaction inside the pack is what makes it so cold suddenly.
The evaporation of a liquid, whether water, alcohol, or any other, consumes a certain amount of energy and therefore has a cooling effect. There is some degree of bonding between molecules of alcohol when they are in a liquid state, that keeps them together, and that bond has to be broken in order for them to be able to expand into the gas phase, and that requires energy.
Alcohol causes increased circulation of blood to your skin, which means more heat carried by your blood is exposed to whatever your touching and thus you cool faster.
No, but it will make you get colder. Alcohol causes the capillaries at the surface of the skin to dilate. This will cause you to lose body heat.
Alcohol damages many of your organs and over excessive drinking can cause liver failure , drinking alcohol allot can thin bones , it can also cause stomach cancer , alcohol does damage most parts of the body not just physically but mentally drinking alcohol all the time may make you feel like you need it all the time.
No, not the kind of alcohol that you drink. Your body metabolizes drinking alcohol (ethanol) through a series of steps, one of which is acetylaldehyde, a chemical related to formaldehyde. However, the body metabolizes methanol, another kind of alcohol, into formaldehyde.
Alcohol causes core body temperature to decrease. However, flushing caused by alcohol may make someone think they are getting warmer rather than colder.
stop drinking firstly, secondly, continuing vomiting is healthy if you are in a very bad way, as alcohol poisons, this removes alcohol.
Not physically, but heavy drinking stops emotional growth.
No. However - drinking causes one to "feel hotter" and therefore wearing less clothing resulting in a lower core temperature than usual. Actually, it does make you lose body heat. The blood vessels close to your skin dilates,(widens) allowing more blood going to your skin, thus losing body heat. You feel hotter because the nerves close to your skin, (The ones that feels the heat) still felt heat, so it assumes that you're actually hot while you are losing your heat.
Alcohol affects all the organ systems of the body. It could affect sterility, and will most certainly affect the ability to get and sustain an erection.
Relaxing your body will only make you colder,and shivering is your bodies response when it is cold and is ment to warm your body up a little.There is no way shivering can make your body colder.
yes but only the morning after you pass out because the body is dehydrated and the alcohol isn't out of your system. Drinking water flushes the alcohol out which will in-turn make you feel a little bit drunk again. of course you will not be wasted but you will feel the effects of the alcohol again.
No. It might make your nausea worse or upset your stomach, but it won't make anything bad happen that doesn't already happen when drinking alcohol at other times.
No, but it will make it much harder to recover by affecting the way your body absorbs nutrients and medications, making it harder to heal.