How much blood can a vampire drink?

If a vampire had to drink an equivalent amount of blood to survive, they'd need roughly 95 pounds of blood every day. Blood makes up about ten percent of a person's total body weight so, for every one vampire, six people would need to die every night.
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How many pints of blood does a vampire need?

How much blood can a vampire drink without killing his prey? About four pints. The average adult has about 10 pints of blood in his or her body.
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How fast can vampires drink blood?

According to physics students at the University of Leicester, around 6.4 minutes. In this time, a hungry vampire could suck down 15 percent of an average human's five liters of blood from the carotid artery in the neck.
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What happens if a vampire drink too much blood?

Same thing that happens to everyone that over eats. Stomachache, nausea, lethargy, tearing of the stomach lining. If you want something more specific to vampires, then Queen of the Damned gave us a version where, if a vampire consumes the last drop of someone's blood, they die too.
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How much blood does a vampire bat drink in one meal?

Vampire bats do not suck the blood from their prey. Each night, a vampire bat needs about two tablespoons of blood (20 grams), and cannot go for more than two nights without food.
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Is It Safe to Drink Blood?



Can vampires get drunk?

Alcohol, and it's effects on the body, requires a working liver to convert the alcohol in to sugar. Since a vampire is dead, their livers no longer function. A vampire who drank the blood of a very drunk person would feel no effects from the alcohol.
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Do vampires need vitamin D?

Vitamin D is an obvious concern, since vampires famously avoid sunlight. Of course, vitamin D is present in blood, and they may get enough from their blood meals. Otherwise, a supplement might be needed.
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How long do vampires live?

They live immortal lifespans, despite these weaknesses, and it is fairly common for a vampire to be centuries old, although they still slowly age; a vampire who is six hundred years old may appear as a middle-aged breather would. They are naturally nocturnal beings, and will typically sleep by dawn.
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How do vampires get hard?

Vampires would probably have a different digestive system where the blood enters their veins and that blood creates a blood flow. Thus, erections are possible. In some popular literature, vampires need to drink blood first in order to get an erection, which supports this theory.
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Can vampires eat normal food?

It's all that can satiate their incredible hunger. And yes, while some vampires can eat human food, it's merely for show. Blood is their only source of sustenance.
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Are vampires stronger by age?

The level of strength in vampire depends on their age and their diet - consuming human blood regularly makes them stronger than those that consume animal blood. Even transitioning vampires, have been shown to be several times stronger than they were before they turned.
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How old is the oldest vampire?

Khayman was one of the oldest vampires at nearly 6,000 years old, he appears in very few of the books in the series, but was nevertheless considered a powerful force among their number.
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Will vampires poop?

Do vampires pee and poo? But having physical bodies, they do need to eat, resulting in digestion: so, yes, though they often find it undignified, they do have waste from the alimentary canal.
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Can you live with 5 pints of blood?

Most average size adults have between 9 and 12 pints of blood in their body. The amount of blood loss a person can safely sustain will depend on how much they weigh, their age, gender, and other factors. On average adults can safely lose between 1.26-1.68 pints of blood without adverse effects.
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How fast can a vampire drain a human?

Considering the human body has an average of 5 litres of blood and that a vampire might feasibly take 15%, in the study a vampire would drain 0.75 litres of blood, and by their calculations it would take 6.4 minutes to do so.
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What's a female vampire called?

vampiress (plural vampiresses) A female vampire.
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Do vampires have to pee?

Do vampires pee? - Quora. No. Vampires' bodies are a LOT “drier” than the bodies of living humans. Thus, their systems conserve every DROP of moisture they ingest.
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Why are vampires sexualized?

Vampires were first sexualized to strike fear into people of the taboo and sinfulness of sexual behavior, but later, this sexualization became a metaphor for repressed desires, until finally their sexualization caused them to be humanized.
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What kills a vampire?

Decapitate and Burn: “Chop off the head and burn the body seems the most universal way of stopping a vampire.
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What is the oldest vampire called?

Jure Grando Alilović or Giure Grando (1579–1656) was a villager from the region of Istria (in modern-day Croatia) who may have been the first real person described as a vampire in historical records. He was referred to as a štrigon, a local word for something resembling a vampire and a warlock.
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Can vampires get pregnant?

Can female vampires become pregnant ? No, they cannot as their egg cells are frozen and can't be fertilized by a sperm cell.
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Do vampires have periods?

No. When a human is turned into a vampire, all their blood is used to fuel that transformation. They constantly referred to their bodies as frozen, unchanging. Your body needs to change in order to have a menstrual cycle, no menstrual cycle means no period or pregnancy.
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Do vampires count Rice?

Some Chinese myths say that a vampire must count every grain if they come across a bag of rice. A vampire would stop to count, delaying them until sun-up, and we all know that vampires don't do well in sunlight. A common seed used was mustard seed, which was also known as eye of newt!
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Are vampires genetic?

Dana-Farber/Boston Children's researchers and collaborators have identified a genetic mutation that may be responsible for vampire folklore. Summary: A newly discovered genetic mutation triggers erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP).
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