ALLMedicine™ Methanol Toxicity Center

Sep 15th, 2020 - Methanol is widely used in industry; however, methanol poisoning is not common. In this regard, a number of outbreaks have been recently reported due to inappropriate processing of alcoholic beverages. Shiraz, a city located in the southern part o...

Sep 10th, 2020 - The high incidence of alcoholic poisoning in Indonesia is caused by the use of methanol as a surrogate ingredient of nonconforming alcohol. The product of methanol metabolism is toxic to the liver. Ranitidine has been studied as an antidote to red...

Aug 10th, 2020 - Hand sanitisers are urgently needed in the time of COVID-19, and as a result of shortages, some people have resorted to making their own formulations, including the repurposing of distilleries. We wish to highlight the importance of those producin...

Jun 19th, 2020 - Basal ganglia lesions are typical findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain in survivors of acute methanol poisoning. However, no data are available on the association between the magnitude of damaged brain regions, serum concentra...

May 12th, 2020 - At first blush, methanol poisoning may be seen as an arcane problem generally associated with rapid ocular neuropathy. The emerging clinical reality is that methanol poisoning around the globe has claimed increasingly large numbers of deaths large...

Sep 15th, 2020 - Methanol is widely used in industry; however, methanol poisoning is not common. In this regard, a number of outbreaks have been recently reported due to inappropriate processing of alcoholic beverages. Shiraz, a city located in the southern part o...

Sep 10th, 2020 - The high incidence of alcoholic poisoning in Indonesia is caused by the use of methanol as a surrogate ingredient of nonconforming alcohol. The product of methanol metabolism is toxic to the liver. Ranitidine has been studied as an antidote to red...

Aug 10th, 2020 - Hand sanitisers are urgently needed in the time of COVID-19, and as a result of shortages, some people have resorted to making their own formulations, including the repurposing of distilleries. We wish to highlight the importance of those producin...

Jun 19th, 2020 - Basal ganglia lesions are typical findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain in survivors of acute methanol poisoning. However, no data are available on the association between the magnitude of damaged brain regions, serum concentra...

May 12th, 2020 - At first blush, methanol poisoning may be seen as an arcane problem generally associated with rapid ocular neuropathy. The emerging clinical reality is that methanol poisoning around the globe has claimed increasingly large numbers of deaths large...