If alcohol is so effective at killing bacteria/viruses, why isn’t it used more often in medication?

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Alcohol kills most stuff, not just bacteria. So if you put it in your body, it’ll probably poison you. Methanol (i think) the stuff in hand sanitizer is pretty toxic. Ethanol alcohol, the stuff we drink is also toxic, but the body can break it down into something safe. But then its pretty pointless as disinfectant inside the body if its no longer what it was. Same with methanol, but thats very , very bad for you and it’ll break down into toxic stuff.

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