Hundreds dead after drinking methanol wrongly thinking it cures coronavirus (Methanol)
State TV said the new facility, which includes three units and several isolation wards, was set up in just 48 hours. It will be used for patients who are recovering from the Covid-19 illness caused by the virus.
Nearly 300 people are reported by the media to have been killed and more than 1,000 have become ill after ingesting toxic methanol across Iran amid rumours it can help cure coronavirus. In the Islamic Republic, drinking alcohol is banned, and those who do drink rely on bootleggers.
An Iranian doctor helping the Health Ministry later said the problem was even greater, giving a death toll of around 480 with 2,850 people made ill. Stories about fake remedies for coronavirus have spread across social media in Iran, where people remain deeply suspicious of the government after it downplayed the crisis for days before it overwhelmed the country.
Dr Knut Erik Hovda, a clinical toxicologist in Oslo who studies methanol poisoning, fears Iran’s outbreak could be even worse than reported.
‘The virus is spreading and people are just dying off, and I think they are even less aware of the fact that there are other dangers around,’ he said.
‘When they keep drinking this, there’s going to be more people poisoned.’
Iranian social media accounts in Farsi falsely suggested a British school teacher and others cured themselves of coronavirus with whisky and honey, based on a tabloid story from early in February.
Mixed with messages about the use of alcohol-based hand sanitisers, some people wrongly believed drinking high-proof alcohol would kill the virus in their bodies.
The new coronavirus is more sensitive to alcohol than Sars or Mers and can be killed almost completely by ethanol concentrations as low as 30 per cent, according to a joint study by scientists from Germany and Switzerland.
Though many spirits such as whisky or gin have an alcohol content higher than that, scientists do not recommend using them as a disinfectant unless in desperate situations and they stressed that people should not regard drinking as a way to prevent or cure Covid-19.
Stephanie Pfaender, the lead scientist of the study, said on Wednesday that their experiment was conducted in a laboratory setting, therefore “one cannot directly translate these findings towards personal use upon application of whiskey, rum etc”.
She continued: “We would definitely not recommend the behaviour (of drinking), as we are talking about a minimal final alcohol concentration that has to come into contact with the virus for a defined time.”
Bleach is not a single compound but a generic name for a class of compounds that are used for cleaning, disinfecting and whitening clothes. Chemically, it could either be sodium hypochlorite (bleaching powder) or peroxide (peroxide bleach). Regardless of the type, bleach is corrosive. It would kill healthy tissue the moment it comes in contact with it.
It cannot cure COVID-19
Ingestion of bleach (which can happen while gargling) can cause throat irritation, vomiting and stomach upset.
If it somehow reaches your lungs, bleach can cause severe damage to the airways. It can cause suffocation and death.
There is no scientific evidence to prove any of the claims that are being made in favour of MMS. The FDA has already got reports of adverse health effects linked to ingesting this product. These range from diarrhoea, vomiting, dehydration, severely low blood pressure and acute liver failure.
While we are at it, silver can cause permanent greying of skin (a condition called argyria) and it can interfere with the absorption of certain drugs. There is no evidence that silver can cure any condition, let alone coronavirus.
This all are Extremely Dangerous
Nearly 300 people are reported by the media to have been killed and more than 1,000 have become ill after ingesting toxic methanol across Iran amid rumours it can help cure coronavirus. In the Islamic Republic, drinking alcohol is banned, and those who do drink rely on bootleggers.
An Iranian doctor helping the Health Ministry later said the problem was even greater, giving a death toll of around 480 with 2,850 people made ill. Stories about fake remedies for coronavirus have spread across social media in Iran, where people remain deeply suspicious of the government after it downplayed the crisis for days before it overwhelmed the country.
Dr Knut Erik Hovda, a clinical toxicologist in Oslo who studies methanol poisoning, fears Iran’s outbreak could be even worse than reported.
‘The virus is spreading and people are just dying off, and I think they are even less aware of the fact that there are other dangers around,’ he said.
‘When they keep drinking this, there’s going to be more people poisoned.’
Iranian social media accounts in Farsi falsely suggested a British school teacher and others cured themselves of coronavirus with whisky and honey, based on a tabloid story from early in February.
Mixed with messages about the use of alcohol-based hand sanitisers, some people wrongly believed drinking high-proof alcohol would kill the virus in their bodies.
Ethanol.
Though many spirits such as whisky or gin have an alcohol content higher than that, scientists do not recommend using them as a disinfectant unless in desperate situations and they stressed that people should not regard drinking as a way to prevent or cure Covid-19.
Stephanie Pfaender, the lead scientist of the study, said on Wednesday that their experiment was conducted in a laboratory setting, therefore “one cannot directly translate these findings towards personal use upon application of whiskey, rum etc”.
She continued: “We would definitely not recommend the behaviour (of drinking), as we are talking about a minimal final alcohol concentration that has to come into contact with the virus for a defined time.”
Bleach
It cannot cure COVID-19
Ingestion of bleach (which can happen while gargling) can cause throat irritation, vomiting and stomach upset.
If it somehow reaches your lungs, bleach can cause severe damage to the airways. It can cause suffocation and death.
Miracle mineral solution
Miracle mineral solution is described as containing about 28% sodium chlorite in a base of distilled water. Consumers are asked to mix it with some sort of acidic solution (lemon juice or citric acid) before consumption. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), when you mix both these things, you get chlorine dioxide, which is a type of bleach.There is no scientific evidence to prove any of the claims that are being made in favour of MMS. The FDA has already got reports of adverse health effects linked to ingesting this product. These range from diarrhoea, vomiting, dehydration, severely low blood pressure and acute liver failure.
While we are at it, silver can cause permanent greying of skin (a condition called argyria) and it can interfere with the absorption of certain drugs. There is no evidence that silver can cure any condition, let alone coronavirus.
This all are Extremely Dangerous
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