Will There Be An Increased Demand For The Digital Alcohol Tester?

Readers of the following article might find the idea put forth by the article writer to be rather absurd. A reader might question the likely desire of a home owner for possession of a digital alcohol tester. The writer was inspired by something she read about another U.S. family—one that chose to ban consumption of caffeine inside the home. The writer did not read about any sort of caffeine detector, but she felt that that story offered proof that a U.S. homeowner might want to purchase a digital alcohol tester.A report released on May 25, 2007 suggested a possible rise in requests for the at home alcohol test. That report indicated that many more U.S. homes had chosen to forbid smoking inside the home. How might that report relate to the alcohol tester? Well, those same home owners could possibly decide to ban consumption of alcohol in the home as well.

Of course enforcement of such a ban would not be as easy as enforcement of a no-smoking ban. Consumption of alcohol does not release a strong and fast-moving odor into the air. Consumption of alcohol does, however, cause the drinker to have alcohol breath. The realization of that fact has lead to creation of a simple alcohol detector, the prelude to the digital alcohol tester.

Dr. Robert Berkenstein, a former member of the Indiana State Police force, paved the way for creation of the digital alcohol tester when he first asked one test subject to take a deep breath.  Dr. Berkenstein understood the physiology of respiration. He appreciated the fact that a person taking a deep breath allows air to reach his or her deep air sacs, sacs located in the lungs. The air in those air sacs can disclose the presence of alcohol in the blood stream.

If the person taking the deep breath has just had a drink, then the air in the deep air sacs will be proportional to his or her blood alcohol concentration (BAC).Dr. Berkenstein was aware of that fact. His awareness of that fact helped him to invent the prototype for the digital alcohol tester.

Many modifications have taken place on the device that Dr. Berkenstein introduced to society more than half a century ago. Those modifications have transformed his simple device into the present-day digital alcohol detector. Yet those modifications can not erase the obvious fact that Dr. Berkenstein possessed a valuable understanding of human physiology.

Dr. Berkenstein appreciated what takes place after someone drinks a beverage containing alcohol. He understood the rapidity with which that alcohol has an effect upon the drinker’s body. That rapidity results from the way that the body absorbs alcohol. Unlike most nutrients, which enter the blood stream in the intestines, some alcohol enters the bloodstream before any downed drink has left the stomach.

The quick absorption of alcohol underscores a key factor in alcohol detection. Dr. Berkenstein took advantage of that factor. His awareness of just how the body deals with alcohol guided his work on an important invention—the prelude to the alcohol tester

Could that tester one day enjoy widespread in-home use? If drinkers were to be painted with the same brush now used to depict smokers, then perhaps it could. Perhaps someday many homes will have a digital alcohol tester.

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