Emergency in Vietnam: Doctors treat alcohol poisoning with beer cans

With a can of beer, Doctors have healed in Vietnam, a 48-year-old man of severe alcohol intoxication. The physicians 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.

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. 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 the case of 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 dangerous Methanol is then excreted through the breath and the urine. If this is successful, remains to be a severe hangover.