If we use alcohol as disinfectant, why drinking it doesnt solve throat infection / sore throat?
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The infection is not just on the surfaces of your throat.
But if you drink enough alcohol (and I’m NOT AT ALL recommending that anyone do this) it will make your body less hospitable to bacterial infections. Of course alcohol is an indiscriminate poison and will likely cause more problems than it solves.
The infection is not just on the surfaces of your throat.
But if you drink enough alcohol (and I’m NOT AT ALL recommending that anyone do this) it will make your body less hospitable to bacterial infections. Of course alcohol is an indiscriminate poison and will likely cause more problems than it solves.
Among many reasons, the sore throat is usually a symptom, not the actual illness. Alleviating a symptom does not cure the disease or infection.
Among many reasons, the sore throat is usually a symptom, not the actual illness. Alleviating a symptom does not cure the disease or infection.
Among many reasons, the sore throat is usually a symptom, not the actual illness. Alleviating a symptom does not cure the disease or infection.
Using a disinfectant to fight a disease that is showing symptoms is like trying to install a fire prevention system after the fire has already started. Besides, while it may kill infectious viruses and bacteria on the surface of the throat, it won’t do anything to address the bugs that aren’t so directly exposed, or the inflammation caused by the immune system.
Besides, the same things that make high-proof alcohol good at killing bacteria are also bad for the cells in your mouth and throat. It denatures proteins it comes in contact with, thus tearing apart cells, and it is indiscriminate whether those are bacteria or throat tissue. And damaging cells a lot means increasing the risk of cancer a lot.
Using a disinfectant to fight a disease that is showing symptoms is like trying to install a fire prevention system after the fire has already started. Besides, while it may kill infectious viruses and bacteria on the surface of the throat, it won’t do anything to address the bugs that aren’t so directly exposed, or the inflammation caused by the immune system.
Besides, the same things that make high-proof alcohol good at killing bacteria are also bad for the cells in your mouth and throat. It denatures proteins it comes in contact with, thus tearing apart cells, and it is indiscriminate whether those are bacteria or throat tissue. And damaging cells a lot means increasing the risk of cancer a lot.
Using a disinfectant to fight a disease that is showing symptoms is like trying to install a fire prevention system after the fire has already started. Besides, while it may kill infectious viruses and bacteria on the surface of the throat, it won’t do anything to address the bugs that aren’t so directly exposed, or the inflammation caused by the immune system.
Besides, the same things that make high-proof alcohol good at killing bacteria are also bad for the cells in your mouth and throat. It denatures proteins it comes in contact with, thus tearing apart cells, and it is indiscriminate whether those are bacteria or throat tissue. And damaging cells a lot means increasing the risk of cancer a lot.
Alcohol is most effective as a disinfectant at 70%, 140 proof. You can drink that, but you can’t keep it on your mucus membranes like your throat without killing those cells too because alcohol isn’t just bactericidal, it destroys cells of all kinds.
You could cure yourself of infections by raising your blood alcohol content to 70%, but you would die long before you could get anywhere close to that high.
Alcohol is most effective as a disinfectant at 70%, 140 proof. You can drink that, but you can’t keep it on your mucus membranes like your throat without killing those cells too because alcohol isn’t just bactericidal, it destroys cells of all kinds.
You could cure yourself of infections by raising your blood alcohol content to 70%, but you would die long before you could get anywhere close to that high.
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