jesus…I can’t open that link , but that must be in Russia based on the headline
edit: just read it on my phone. Sounds like a hoax…
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The hospital didn’t have enough medical ethanol on hand so they grabbed the next best thing from the liquor store — a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label whiskey.
After five days of dripping whiskey through the man’s IV, he woke up and could see again.
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So…they didn’t have medical ethanol, so they went out…but didn’t buy medical ethanol, and instead bought fucking whiskey?
Not only that, but they didn’t get any more medical ethanol for 5 days and kept dripping whiskey???!!!
I would love to see snopes do some digging on this one lol
Actually I’ve been involved in a case like this. Acute methanol poisoning for which the treatment is pure IV ethanol. The ethanol occupies enzymes that would other wise process the methanol. Left unchecked, the liver metabolises the methanol producing all sorts of nasties, which cause the vast majority of problems. Keeping the liver busy with ethanol will only keep the patient drunk and result in a hangover. The methanol is eventually excreted by other means.
So our case, same thing, couldn’t find any pure IV ethanol. We couldn’t get hold of the hospital pharmacist on call (middle of the night) so one of the med students ran down to Tesco’s to get some 5GBP/bottle Vodka. We were minutes from actually giving it when a taxi turned up from another hospital with the good stuff, properly made rather than Tesco’s eco brand!
It’s always the one fun fun we take away from the toxicology lecture - you can give iv vodka in a pinch!
It might just not have been available. Just as clean though. I bet in Oz they have it as a lot of the natives drink methanol as it’s cheaper than booze.