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Parents of Melbourne methanol-poisoning victims ‘shocked’ by $185 fines handed to Laos hostel staff
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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It is so sad too, as all it would've taken to save them is to ply them with ethanol drinks right away. If they got some real alcohol right afterwards they wouldn't even have known why they felt off, before they recovered.
Alchohol has preferential position, forget what they call it, on the receptors, it forces methanol off. Hospitals have a drug that works as well, but if anyone is poisoned with methanol, don't wait, within 20 minutes you are blind and or going to die, you need the alcohol asap.
The opening paragraph strongly implies your information is incorrect...?
Got any sources?
What are you talking about? I didn't say anything about their situation, I said that the antidote to methanol poisoning is ethanol, everyone knows that. Within 20 minutes the alcohol will force the methanol off of the receptors because it has preferential grabbiness on it. If you are served methanol, or antifreeze of any kind, you want to drink all the alchohol you can as soon as you can. Hospitals won't help you in time, 20 minutes you are blind, if not dead, if you have a high enough dose.