Why is it toxic to ingest alcohol from disinfectants but we can drink alcoholic beverages?

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I’ve been digging on the Alcohol matter for like an hour and i’m still confused. As i understood is the same type of alcohol they use for cleaning and for drinking.

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Because it isn’t just alcohol or is the wrong type of alcohol. There are many types of alcohol and the only type we can drink is called ethanol. The rest are very toxic, even more so than ethanol, such as methanol for example.

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