What factors affect the blood alcohol content of a person?

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How much you've had to drink. How long you've been drinking. How long in between drinks. Weight, gender, tolerance.

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amount of alcohol drunk in a limited time span with body weight and gender taken into account

There may be many conditions that affect blood alcohol content. It almost all cases a good factor is the person's body weight. I saw a 100 pound girl drink a tiny little glass of some 80 proof stuff and she was puking in half an hour and she was extremely drunk the rest of the night. Other factors may be how much raw contents the perosn has injested into their system like water or other non-alcoholic beverages. Food and oxygen may also be factors because they use the blood stream to get throughout the boody just like alcohol. But be careful: any extreme amount of ANY substance in you're blood stream can be fatal. If you drink too much water, for example, you're red blood cells burst and are no longer operational. Sometimes so many will pop that it just becomes impossible for your body to make more and you just die. So don't go around thinking that eating or drinking a lot of stuff in ridiculous amounts will make sure you don't get drunk because then you may be killed by both the alcohol and the food or water. Also girls have less blood in their body than guys so girls do tend to have higher BACs than guys with the same drinks drinken at the same time. Tolerance can also be developed so it's rather hard for first time users especially if they've drinken enough to get the spins, throwing up, or other halucinations that come with being drunk like the loss of balance and diziness which is why when so many people are druunk they crash their cars because they believe that they are swirving all over the road while they are simply going straight in the first place to to feel "in balance they have to swirve all over the road.
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Personal experience and my 7th grade science class.

blood alcohol is the percent of alcohol in your blood. it depends on your body size, which means how many pints of blood you have. also depends on your metabolism - if you just had a big meal, the alcohol will absord a little more slowly than on an empty stomach. and then there's the type of alcohol. one beer (12 oz) and one glass of wine (6 ounces) and one shot of liquor (1.5 to 2 ounces) all have about the same amount of alcohol in them.

as a nurse and also a former restaurant and alcohol server, i can tell you the easiest rule of thumb. a person can metabolize, on average, one drink per hour. if you have more than one drink in an hour and then get behind the wheel, you will test DUI in most states.

so, get a designated driver or drink at home! (another fact - one in 12 people on the road at any one time are DUI. the percentages between 2 and 7am are much higher)
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nursing degree and state mandated alcohol service education

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