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Drinking this medical disinfectant denaturated alcohol has become a meme in Romania, where very poor people drink it because it's so cheap - $1.5 for 1L of 70%
by 323 5y ago
Drinking this medical disinfectant denaturated alcohol has become a meme in Romania, where very poor people drink it because it's so cheap - $1.5 for 1L of 70% ABV (almost twice Vodka strength which is about 40% ABV).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdZuHPjJtgs&t=1825s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdZuHPjJtgs&t=1825s
- oblio 5y agomitilicu' :-))
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI've seen alcoholic patients try to drink alcohol 70% antiseptic solutions in the emergency room.
- RealityVoid 5y agoWhile Mona is a disinfectant, it _is_ ethanol, only the production method differs, it's obtained through industrial processes (or so it was explained to my by someone who worked at some industrial alcohol synthesis factory) as opposed to fermentation and distillation. Drinking methanol will fucking blind or kill you, so... a bad idea overall. Interestingly a valid treatment for methanol poisoning is ethanol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity#Treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity#Treatment
- shmoe 5y agoIf I remember it overloads the uptake of the methanol or something along those lines. Crazy stuff.
- andai 5y agoVery interesting. It's not the methanol that's toxic but its metabolites, so the ethanol slows down the liver's metabolism of methanol, stretching it out to the degree that the metabolites do not reach an unsafe concentration? Also, "The preferred antidote is fomepizole, with ethanol used if this is not available." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity#Treatment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity#Treatment >Fomepizole is a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, found in the liver. This enzyme plays a key role in the metabolism of ethylene glycol, and of methanol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomepizole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomepizole