eli5 what happens if you drink isopropyl “rubbing” alcohol

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so i just watched a video of someone chug a bottle of rubbing alcohol that you would get from the pharmacy. its still alcohol though so like why is it bad. also what likely happened to the guy who chugged the bottle?

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oh hey, i can answer this!

when i was a freshman in high school, i accidentally chugged a decent amount of IPA. I had a bunch of water bottles by my bed. I also had some chiggers or poison ivy so i also had IPA by my bed. I woke up in the middle of the night parched and just blindly grabbed a bottle and started chugging. I remember thinking “why is this water spicy” because it was burning. Kept chugging anyway. Then i realized it was IPA.

The next day, my stomach hurt a bunch, throat hurt a bunch, intestines hurt a bunch, and butthole hurt a bunch.

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