You've probably heard I didn't know I was pregnant stories that went something like this: A woman claims she took an at-home pregnancy test that came back negative, but, lo and behold, she really was pregnant -- and the pregnancy progressed without her knowledge.
Carbonation in anything you drink allows it to enter the bloodstream faster. There is no difference with an alcoholic beverage. If you drink alcohol that is either carbonated or mixed with a carbonated beverage, then it will absorb into the bloodstream faster than drinks that are not carbonated. Examples are cocktails such as Jack and Coke, which is whiskey mixed with Coca-Cola.
The well-known acute intoxicating effects of alcohol and the attendant risk of secretions or foreign material entering into the trachea and lungs (i.e., aspiration) are components in the development of alcohol-associated lung (i.e., pulmonary) disease.ecent advances in the understanding of alcohol s effects on both structural and immunological aspects of the lung are bringing to light the precise mechanisms by which alcoholics are predisposed to both pneumonia and acute lung injury.