Identify regular alcohol with industrial alcoholic alcohol methanol toxic

If you just taste and look, it's difficult to distinguish between ordinary alcohol or methanol alcohol, according to health experts.

Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, in charge of the Anti-Poison Center, Bach Mai Hospital (Hanoi), said that it was impossible to distinguish ethanol and methanol alcohol based on common sense. Therefore, people need to be wary of non-labeled alcohol, super cheap price, even just a few thousand dong per liter because that is probably methanol alcohol.

In this view, Ms. Nguyen Viet Nga, Deputy Director of Food Safety, Ministry of Health, said that in principle, if seeing with eyes, smelling or tasting, it is difficult to know whether alcohol contains methanol. Overall, alcohol containing methanol is slightly sweet.

After the festival on March 8, 9 students were hospitalized for emergency treatment due to severe methanol poisoning.(Photo: TA).

In folk there are two ways to distinguish real and fake wine from sensory and direct alcohol testing . Regarding the external feeling, the bottle must have all the labels and information such as the name of the product, the name of the manufacturer's address, the name of the importer's address . Also when smelling if the smell of aromatic and spicy alcohol is concentration is good. Another test that many people use is to pour some alcohol into their palms and rub their hands together, if it is sticky, it is not good, but if it is evaporated, it is good.

The alcohol of industrial alcohol is dangerous because it has the same effect as normal alcohol. When in the body, this alcohol is transformed into a poison that causes damage to all body organs, especially the eyes, brain . It takes 12 hours or even 1-2 days after drinking, victim new causes of poisoning such as blurred vision, rapid breathing, drowsiness, slowness, coma .; then the situation was seriously dangerous to life.

Therefore, doctors recommend that the best people should not drink alcohol;If you drink, choose the type of origin, origin, clear label. In the case of people falling into confusion, calling without answering, saying unclearly, sweating, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, convulsions . need to quickly bring to the emergency hospital.

Alcohol poisoning has two forms. The most common is food alcohol poisoning - ethanol. Much more dangerous is alcohol poisoning containing industrial methanol alcohol. The number of methanol poisonings tends to increase in recent years. Not being properly diagnosed and treated promptly, patients often suffer from serious injury, easy to die.

From the end of February until now, Hanoi has recorded 24 emergency hospitalizations for methanol industrial poisoning; 2 fatalities, many are in urgent condition. The patients showed fatigue, vomiting, headache, blurred vision; The amount of methanol in the blood is very high. They all buy white wine at a grocery store without labels, or drink at a restaurant . without knowing they are brewed with industrial alcohol.