Let’s say I love Dr Pepper, and I want to make it “spicier” but not add any external flavor, can I add to it some ethanol, the same you use to clean infections and wounds? Of course, In small and calculated proportions ( for example a drink that would contain normally 30% vodka and 70% juice, make it in this case with 12% pure alcohol and 88% juice)?
Because on the Internet I see people saying that yes, you can, and It’s the same as drinking more pure vodka, and others say It’s really harmful and you should never do it and that it contains cancerous substances
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Ethanol (or ethyl alcohol) isn’t medical alcohol, or typically isn’t. Ethanol is the drinking alcohol.
Hypothetically ethanol could be used as a disinfectant, but that would just be a very high % alcohol solution.
Typically medical alcohol is isopropyl alcohol. And drinking it can be very irritating to you stomach and digestive tract, possibly to the point of causing bleeding. Drinking it is probably going to cause you problems. Unless you’re just accidentally drinking a tiny little bit that’s diluted with something else, but you can’t really drink it like normal alcohol
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