Sounds like a paradox, saved a man in Vietnam, the life: With a can of beer Asian Doctors have treated the heavily drunken 48-Year-old.
The doctors of the hospital of Quang Tri, in the homonymous province, implanted in your patients, and after 15 doses of the barley juice, such as the state-controlled press of the South East Asian country reported. With success: The man who had taken a large amount of Methanol, probably due to adulterated liquor, could, according to a report in the daily newspaper "Tuoi Tre", the clinic in accordance with the 15. Beer.
Methanol by cheap adulterated booze id-Article-content leads to severe poisoning
In less-developed countries, it often happens that people fall ill after the consumption of cheap adulterated booze that contains Methanol, heavy or even die. Methanol is formed when the Distillation of alcohol is not properly worked. the When the liver tries to detoxify the body from alcohol, is converted to the Methanol to formaldehyde and formic acid . This can cause damage to the nerve cells, blindness and even death.
In their unusual treatment, the Doctors made use of in Vietnam a Trick to prevent the conversion of methanol: working on the liver, otherwise, by aligning the patient with Ethanol, so "normal" alcohol, in the Form of beer administered. Per hour he got to and to a can. the The dangerous Methanol is then excreted through the breath and the urine . If this is successful, remains to be a severe hangover.
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"The therapy with 15 cans of beer is rather unusual"
In the case of the Vietnamese patient, it took a total of 15 hours, until the worst effects of the alcohol intoxication were over. The attending doctor Tran Van Thanh said the Vietnamese newspaper, the methodology used corresponds to " no medical Standard ". "But in practice, it has proved to be effective."
Of emergency physicians, Hans-Jörg Busch, from the University hospital of Freiburg, told the German press Agency, dpa: "The therapy with 15 cans of beer is rather unusual, but well understood. May be the Vietnamese colleagues had no other alcohol on Hand ." On the type of alcohol it is not coming but also not necessarily so to the Professor. "Much more important is that the therapy is immediately initiated."
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