2012-05-25, 07:20 PM
The treatment for adulterated alcohol i.e. ethanol tainted with methanol or ethylene glycol, is to flood your guts with pharmaceutical grade ethanol. The basis of the treatment is competitive inhibition, in which there's so much ethanol in your system that the adulterants don't get a chance to get oxidised into toxic stuff (you don't joke with formaldehyde, especially powder-form paraformaldehyde). There was a story (probably real) that a doctor received a patient who drank contaminated wine (probably self-distilled), and he burned half his cellar of red wine to tide him over till the next day, when he could get him to hospital. Kinda wasted. I can buy reagent-grade ethanol at like 20 quid for 1.5L. You don't buy good red wine at 20 quid for a bottle...
Generally if most things are horribly bitter, then you won't eat much of it, and you'll live. You could even take a full gulp of mouthwash and there won't be a bucket for you to kick, but you might complain of a stomache. Bitter is a good gauge of toxicity - strychnine is zomfg bitter according to most literature. Maybe except if your parents start buying you 凉茶, especially 二十四味, which you'll prob. die before you drink it.
And my dear, be more careful next time.
Hadriel
Generally if most things are horribly bitter, then you won't eat much of it, and you'll live. You could even take a full gulp of mouthwash and there won't be a bucket for you to kick, but you might complain of a stomache. Bitter is a good gauge of toxicity - strychnine is zomfg bitter according to most literature. Maybe except if your parents start buying you 凉茶, especially 二十四味, which you'll prob. die before you drink it.
And my dear, be more careful next time.
Hadriel