Today's post could be filed under unlikely cures or learning something new and odd. A 48 year old Vietnamese man was admitted to the hospital comatose and in critical condition from drinking too much. The doctors administered 15 cans of beer over a 5 hour period to slow down the metabolism of the methanol. The liver prioritizes ethanol metabolism so by infusing the beer into the man it allowed the methanol to be discharged in his urine. His blood alcohol was 2,100 milligrams per liter,more than 10 times the alcohol poisoning level. The man fully recovered. I don't know what the preferred drink is in Vietnam but alcohol poisoning is common there.
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