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Tuesday, December 31, 2002Glennis Middleton, a councillor from Forfar, Angus, was not wearing her glasses when she reached for a drink after some strenuous home decorating, picked up the wrong bottle and drank three mouthfuls of what properly belonged inside her car radiator. There was nothing on the bottle to label the antifreeze as potentially lethal. But Mrs Middleton's daughter telephoned the family GP, who recommended going to hospital. Doctors administered two drams of whisky, followed by a dram every hour through the night as they monitored the level of antifreeze in her blood. This is actually a rather common event. Anti-freeze is a favorite of desperate whinos. In this case, the patient was given oral alcohol (Good Scotch whiskey, of course!) to counteract the ethylene glycol in the anti-freeze, but the most common form of administration is intravenously (doesn’t require the patient’s active cooperation), and there’s now an alternative, non-alcoholic treatment - fomepizole. posted by Sydney on 12/31/2002 07:43:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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