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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It will make you drunk, but a different more sick feeling drunk. It can also mess with your stomach and digestive tract more than ethanol. Pharmacy alcohols are sometimes denatured, which means a small additive to make them taste really bad and possibly induce vomiting, basically strongly discourages drinking. Mouthwash has those too, but more consumption safe ones, so I would drink mouthwash over isopropyl. Mouthwash companies don’t want people getting sick from accidentally ingesting, so they claim the flavour and burn will keep people from abusing it.

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