5 Reasons why you should own a Breathalyzer

Owning your own breathalyzer can be a huge benefit for your personal safety and convenience, as well as those of the people around you too. Here are five specific advantages of owning a breathalyzer.

Quick and easy to use

Breathalyzers are not complex mechanical items, nor do they take a long time to use. Simply blow, read the resulting display, and you’ve got your answer. You can even test multiple people in quick succession. 

Accurate readings

Breathalyzers are programmed with a mathematical formula that equates the presence of alcohol in your breath with the percentage of alcohol in your blood. This formula is absolute, and breathalyzers are not prone to errors. If the unit says your BAC is too high to drive, there’s no arguing with it.

Non-invasive 

There are other ways to check your BAC. Taking a blood test is one, and it is as accurate as a breathalyzer. But blood tests, aside from being inconvenient and difficult to obtain for individual use, also involve invasive needles and blood draws, and are most often performed after you’ve already been in an accident or been pulled over by the police. The best breathalyzer ensures you’ll likely never need a blood test.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself

As a corollary to the last item, checking your BAC before you get in a car will decrease your chances of getting into an accident by up to 100%; if you don’t get in the car, you can’t crash it into anything or anyone. 

Take the decision out of your own hands

Finally, because the breathalyzer is not a person with feelings or emotions like you are, letting its BAC reading determine whether or not you get in a car after a few drinks will allow you to have fun with lowered risk of misjudging your own intoxication. Instead of considering how you might feel, just test yourself with the breathalyzer, and if it says your BAC is too high, don’t get in the car. 

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How an alcohol tester works in 4 quick steps

Many people wonder how an alcohol tester can work by simply testing your breath. How can that possibly be linked with the amount of alcohol in your bloodstream? Especially if you’ve had plenty water to drink and something to eat in the meantime. However, alcohol testing with breath analysis is highly accurate – here’s how it works.

You drink alcohol

The amount of alcohol you drink is constant, but individual variables will affect the speed at which it is absorbed into your body.

Absorption occurs

Alcohol is quite a small molecule and it doesn’t change as it is absorbed into your bloodstream, unlike the larger proteins and carbs in the food we eat.

Alcohol circulates

The alcohol moves around your body, affecting the way signals are sent around your brain – causing the effects of alcohol as we know them.

It reaches the lungs

When the alcohol circulating in your blood reaches the lungs, it will readily diffuse out of the blood, just as carbon dioxide does. Therefore, if you have alcohol in your blood you will also exhale alcohol, which can be detected by alcohol testing.

Problems with Alcohol Testing

Some problems can occur with alcohol testing because of two assumptions:

     ·         Alcohol detected on the breath may not have come from the bloodstream

     ·         The conversion of amount of alcohol measured to percentage of blood alcohol can vary among individuals.

Still, alcohol testing with the current breathalyzer and tools gives us readings that are generally accurate to ± 10%. This is accurate enough for the police to require blood alcohol testing, if you blow above a certain amount.

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