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WARNING - Breathalyzer!

aspiedude
aspiedude Posts: 44 Member
edited November 19 in Social Groups
I was doing some research on an academic database to find articles about LCHF eating to bring in to my nurse practitioner to pretty much convince her I'm not going to keel over and die, and I found one that said that being in a state of ketosis can produce false positives on a alcohol breathalyzer test because of the ketones in the breath. Just wanted to warn everyone!

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  • AngInCanada
    AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
    Oh geez. I wonder if its true. I'd totally go ask a cop but they probably wouldn't believe me and I'd go to jail lol
  • FIT_Goat
    FIT_Goat Posts: 4,224 Member
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  • aspiedude
    aspiedude Posts: 44 Member
    I'll see if I can find the article again. You probably won't be able to see the whole thing without a subscription, unless it was an open source publication, but you can at least read an abstract. It was peer-reviewed, not some magazine article.
  • Twibbly
    Twibbly Posts: 1,065 Member
    I put in a question with BIL, the cop & fitness junkie. :smile:
  • aspiedude
    aspiedude Posts: 44 Member
    Here is the link. You can read the full article.

    http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v31/n3/full/0803444a.html
  • Twibbly
    Twibbly Posts: 1,065 Member
    Twibbly wrote: »
    I put in a question with BIL, the cop & fitness junkie. :smile:

    He hasn't heard of it, so it probably wasn't mentioned at all. Joy.
  • AngInCanada
    AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
    Twibbly wrote: »
    Twibbly wrote: »
    I put in a question with BIL, the cop & fitness junkie. :smile:

    He hasn't heard of it, so it probably wasn't mentioned at all. Joy.

    You should be our guinea pig! Ask your BIL to come over so you can try out his breathalyzer machine. Do it do it!
  • Twibbly
    Twibbly Posts: 1,065 Member
    AngInCanada wrote: »
    Twibbly wrote: »
    Twibbly wrote: »
    I put in a question with BIL, the cop & fitness junkie. :smile:

    He hasn't heard of it, so it probably wasn't mentioned at all. Joy.

    You should be our guinea pig! Ask your BIL to come over so you can try out his breathalyzer machine. Do it do it!

    I would, but I'm not in ketosis right now.
  • AngInCanada
    AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
    Twibbly wrote: »
    AngInCanada wrote: »
    Twibbly wrote: »
    Twibbly wrote: »
    I put in a question with BIL, the cop & fitness junkie. :smile:

    He hasn't heard of it, so it probably wasn't mentioned at all. Joy.

    You should be our guinea pig! Ask your BIL to come over so you can try out his breathalyzer machine. Do it do it!

    I would, but I'm not in ketosis right now.

    Tommorow is a new day lol
  • minties82
    minties82 Posts: 907 Member
    Does it make any difference to the blood test the police get you to do if you fail the breath one?
  • AngInCanada
    AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
    minties82 wrote: »
    Does it make any difference to the blood test the police get you to do if you fail the breath one?

    I googled and the blood test will show properly because blood ketones register different.
  • kuranda10
    kuranda10 Posts: 593 Member
    I have heard this for a long time. First time being many years ago.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    The high end blow meters used by the police are set up to only detect alcohol. $15 meters off eBay will detect acetone and I use one for a ketosis ball park monitoring to save blood. :)
  • 35in90
    35in90 Posts: 98 Member
    FIT_Goat wrote: »
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    Hilarious. My new favorite meme!
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    minties82 wrote: »
    Does it make any difference to the blood test the police get you to do if you fail the breath one?

    The blood test is definitive and specific to ethanol. Ketones, hydrogen etc may well register on a breathalyzer that just detects combustible gases.
  • bluefish86
    bluefish86 Posts: 842 Member
    FIT_Goat wrote: »
    m7o9e38ggaws.jpg

    HA!
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