14 Nov
2012
14 Nov
'12
10:01 a.m.
> (...) isn't
> greater than .50% generally at high risk for alcohol poisoning?
On Wed, 14 Nov
2012, Arno Kletzander wrote:
Yes, .5% is considered "usually lethal" and
probably even attainable
only for the most extremely alcohol-tolerant persons (anybody else is
bound to either have to go puke or pass out long before that) and/or by
means of specialized consumption techniques (co-consumption of
mar-jah-wana is said to suppress puking).
Since there are some who are hypersensitive, some who are almost immune,
and the curve is NOT a smooth bell curve, toxicity is generally measured
in "LD50". That is the dosage at which HALF of the subjects die. (Note
that because of the skews of the curve, that is the MEDIAN, NOT THE MEAN)
MOST LD50 numbers are expressed as the LD50 for rats, since killing half
of your human subjects, EVEN if they're grad students!, is frowned upon.
An extremely preachy anti-alcohol site at University of Missouri - St.
Louis claims that a BAC of .4 (.004, or 0.4%)is the LD50
they also state that BAC/BAL is "number of grams per 100ml", and
that "100mg/100ml is .10%BAL"
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com