Denish asked: A toddler has been watching his father prepare the car for a forthcoming ski holiday. He spies the pretty green “anti-freeze” solution and
drinks it. Upon admission he is administered an infusion of
ethanol. Why?
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Because ethanol neutralizes the ethylene glycol in the antifreeze.
tnx for askin, i learnt something ! any way read below article.
pls note that ethanol is the one we drink in vodka etc
“Car antifreeze solutions contain more than 95 percent ethylene glycol(EG).”
” We’ll actually run vodka through the I.V. Other clinics may use another compound called 4-methylpyrazole (4-MAP), an alcohol-enzyme inhibitor, but it’s expensive.
The point is to decrease the conversion of EG to toxic acids; the decrease occurs because the ethanol competes with the EG in the liver. “