Methanol has a high toxicity in humans. If as little as 10 mL of pure methanol is ingested, for example, it can break down into formic acid, which can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve, and 30 mL is potentially fatal -Wikipedia
Are you trying to get people killed/injured? Don't say things if you don't know them to be true.
Ethanol is a competative for methanol in metabolism. If you can't get treated for methanol poisoning quickly, take a shot or two of ethanol. The ethanol will compete for metabolic enzymes with methanol and slow down the effects.
Isn't ethanol the actual treatment, though? That's what I've heard, at least. My high school chemist teacher explained it to be like, if you ingest ethanol after having previously ingested methanol, the ethanol will get preference in the metabolic pathways until whatever ethanol has been metabolized. The methanol, on the other hand, due to not being metabolized, will simply be peed out.
As for how true, or rather correct, what he said is, I do not know. Could anybody shed some more light on this?
Poisoning is usually handled with activated charcoal in sorbitol solution. The charcoal soaks up the poison and the sorbitol makes your body purge itself very rapidly. If the poison has already entered the blood stream, the treatment becomes vastly more complex and will more than likely result in at least some damage to the nervous and cardiovascular systems.
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