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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I once got shit in my mouth and decided to use isopropyl alcohol to clean out my mouth. I took a large swig and immediately started coughing, swallowed some, couldn’t breathe, and started shitting and vomiting like it was food poisoning.

Lesson learned. No isopropyl alcohol near my mouth.

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