The mediocre adult contains about 5 cubic decimeter of blood . The median wino contains lots of alcohol . So could you , in hypothesis , have a cheap — if messy — Nox out by turning vampiric for the eve ?
fortuitously , Randall Munroe has muse this question at length . He first form out how much alcohol might be in the profligate : given 50 % of people will die when their blood reaches 0.4 % intoxicant , that ’s a good benchmark pattern to use . So , if you drink in 5 liters of blood , which is 0.4 % alcohol , what will happen ? away from throwing up , not a deal :
[ Y]ou would have take in a totality of 2 grams of ethanol , which is the amount you ’d get from one jibe methamphetamine full of beer . Drinking that much blood would , in play , parent your own roue alcohol level to 0.005 . In other intelligence , only 1/60th of the alcohol in their stock would make it into yours .
If , after you drink all this line , someone killed you and wassail your blood , they would then have a BAC of 0.00008 . If this process were repeat about 11 time , there would be few than 60 molecules of ethanol lead in the last person ’s blood . After one more cycle , there would very mayhap be none . They ’d just be drinking even blood .
The curt answer then is : no . Also , just so we ’re clear , it ’s worth pointing out that drinking blood is a really terrible idea . Do n’t do it . I wo n’t even get you drunk . [ What If ? ]
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