Having alcohol poisoning, this man was cured after forced to gulp 15 cans of beer
News24xx.com - Alcoholic beverage poisoning is indeed happened a lot in Asia. That's because there are many cheap liquor sold freely. The drinks are on average not made using the standard process of making alcohol. So that the alcohol consumed is easily contaminated with methanol.
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Late last December, a 48-year-old man in North Vietnam reportedly underwent unusual treatment to treat alcohol poisoning. At first, the middle-aged man was unconscious after drinking large amounts of liquor. According to the head of intensive care at Quang Tri Hospital, Le Van Lam, the man suffered formaldehyde poisoning from ingesting too much methanol.
As previously explained, cheap liquor is easily contaminated with methanol. For that, the doctor told him to drink beer, because methanol poisoning can be treated with ethanol. Ethanol is a type of alcohol that is present in beer. Later, ethanol will prevent methanol from being metabolized into dangerous formaldehyde. Formaldehyde itself can cause nerve damage, blindness and even death.
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The man finally followed the doctor's orders. He drinks a can of beer every one hour, until finally, he recovered after gulping down 15 cans of beer. According to the doctor, this trick prevented the conversion of methanol in the liver. After that, dangerous methanol can come out through breathing and excreted in the urine.
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