If we use alcohol as disinfectant, why drinking it doesnt solve throat infection / sore throat?
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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.
Important to note that disinfectant alcohol is typically isoprpanol. Liquor alcohol is ethanol, which is not as effective of a disinfectant [disputed].
Additionally, alcohol swallowed will only affect bacteria/viruses on the surface of the throat. It will not affect any that are in the tissue or replicating in the cells. To reach those, you would need to raise your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 350x the legal limit or so, which is very difficult because it would take gallons and gallons of hard liquor to raise it that much.
If your blood was 60% alcohol, the carrying capacity for oxygen would be crazy reduced, so you’d probably run out of breath just picking up a glass.
At 60% alcohol, your electrolyte balance would likely be completely out of whack. Muscles would stop working, neurons would fizzle helplessly. Kidneys would just completely check out.
But of course you would probably die of alcohol poisoning long before any of that other stuff. Usually around 5-10x legal limit.
Important to note that disinfectant alcohol is typically isoprpanol. Liquor alcohol is ethanol, which is not as effective of a disinfectant [disputed].
Additionally, alcohol swallowed will only affect bacteria/viruses on the surface of the throat. It will not affect any that are in the tissue or replicating in the cells. To reach those, you would need to raise your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 350x the legal limit or so, which is very difficult because it would take gallons and gallons of hard liquor to raise it that much.
If your blood was 60% alcohol, the carrying capacity for oxygen would be crazy reduced, so you’d probably run out of breath just picking up a glass.
At 60% alcohol, your electrolyte balance would likely be completely out of whack. Muscles would stop working, neurons would fizzle helplessly. Kidneys would just completely check out.
But of course you would probably die of alcohol poisoning long before any of that other stuff. Usually around 5-10x legal limit.
Important to note that disinfectant alcohol is typically isoprpanol. Liquor alcohol is ethanol, which is not as effective of a disinfectant [disputed].
Additionally, alcohol swallowed will only affect bacteria/viruses on the surface of the throat. It will not affect any that are in the tissue or replicating in the cells. To reach those, you would need to raise your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 350x the legal limit or so, which is very difficult because it would take gallons and gallons of hard liquor to raise it that much.
If your blood was 60% alcohol, the carrying capacity for oxygen would be crazy reduced, so you’d probably run out of breath just picking up a glass.
At 60% alcohol, your electrolyte balance would likely be completely out of whack. Muscles would stop working, neurons would fizzle helplessly. Kidneys would just completely check out.
But of course you would probably die of alcohol poisoning long before any of that other stuff. Usually around 5-10x legal limit.
The alcohol has no effect because the pain is caused by the inflammation, which is caused by infection. The alcohol does nothing because on the surface, there is nothing to destroy. To get rid of the pain, you need to relieve the inflammation. If it is an infection, it is possible that this will prolong it a little. I always just take paracetamol to reduce the pain and let the immune system do its job.
The alcohol has no effect because the pain is caused by the inflammation, which is caused by infection. The alcohol does nothing because on the surface, there is nothing to destroy. To get rid of the pain, you need to relieve the inflammation. If it is an infection, it is possible that this will prolong it a little. I always just take paracetamol to reduce the pain and let the immune system do its job.
The alcohol has no effect because the pain is caused by the inflammation, which is caused by infection. The alcohol does nothing because on the surface, there is nothing to destroy. To get rid of the pain, you need to relieve the inflammation. If it is an infection, it is possible that this will prolong it a little. I always just take paracetamol to reduce the pain and let the immune system do its job.
I’m not saying it actually worked, but it was a common home “remedy” to give Rock and Rye (a truly awful, cheap whiskey concoction) for sore throat when I was a child in the 70s southern US.
I’m not saying it actually worked, but it was a common home “remedy” to give Rock and Rye (a truly awful, cheap whiskey concoction) for sore throat when I was a child in the 70s southern US.
I’m not saying it actually worked, but it was a common home “remedy” to give Rock and Rye (a truly awful, cheap whiskey concoction) for sore throat when I was a child in the 70s southern US.
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