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To use this calculator you need to put in the NUMBER of drinks you take IN A WEEK, the VOLUME of each drink and the PERCENTAGE alcohol by volume for EACH type of alcohol you drink whether that is beer wine spirits or other drinks. If you are unsure what to enter put the mouse over the HELP feature

Press the click button. See the page background change if you drink more than you should. You can see if you might be a binge drinker!!! You can put in up to 4 different types of alcohol

WEEKLY number of drinks/bottles/cans/glasses/pints HELP

volume of each drink/bottle/can/glass/pint HELP

percentage alcohol by volume HELP

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Please enter your sex	male female
Please enter how many days a week you drink	I don't know1 day2 days3 days4 days5 days6 days7 days

RECOMMENDED LIMITS OF ALCOHOL IN UNITS :A MAN CAN DRINK UP TO 21 UNITS A WEEK A WOMAN CAN DRINK UP TO 14 UNITS A WEEK Binge-drinking is defined as drinking eight or more units for men and six or more units for women in one session

• Please put down either a whole number or a number with a decimal point. So for example if you drink a third of a bottle of whisky a week put down 0.333 in this column.

• Volume alcohol in mls.To work out the volume of alcohol in mls look at the bottle or can of alcohol to see the volume in mls.
  If the volume is in cl add an extra 0 on :
  so 33 cls =330 mls.
  If the volume is in litres add three extra 0 :
  so 2 litres =2000mls.
  If you still do not know a rough guide is as follows:a pint is 500mls, a pub measure of spirits 25-35 mls and a small glass of wine 125mls. Remember that a pub glass of wine may be 175mls or even 250 mls.
  A bottle of wine is commonly 750mls

• Percentage alcohol by volume. Look at the labelling on the bottle or can of alcohol to see this percentage.

• Over each HELP feature
  a box will appear with further information