Harvard Medical Toxicology Fellowship, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
J Med Toxicol. 2021 Apr;17(2):218-221. doi: 10.1007/s13181-021-00824-9. Epub 2021 Feb 2.
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered outbreaks of unanticipated toxicities, including methanol toxicity. Multiple methanol outbreaks have been described, including contaminated hand sanitizer in the southwest USA. In this case, we describe a fatal case of methanol toxicity from hand sanitizer ingestion, geographically separated from the outbreak in the southwest USA and prior to the announcement of nationwide warnings by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The product was identified as one later recalled by the FDA for methanol contamination. Additionally, the consumption in this case was related to a desire to conceal alcohol consumption from family members. This case of methanol toxicity should increase awareness of the ease of which contaminated products can be widely distributed and of the use of alternative ethanol-containing products to obscure relapse in alcohol use disorder.
新冠疫情引发了一系列意想不到的毒性事件，包括甲醇毒性。已经描述了多种甲醇中毒事件，包括美国西南部受污染的洗手液。在本例中，我们描述了一起与美国西南部爆发的甲醇中毒事件分离，且在食品药品监督管理局（FDA）发布全国性警告之前发生的致命性洗手液摄入甲醇中毒的案例。该产品后来被 FDA 确认为因甲醇污染而召回的产品之一。此外，本例中毒是由于试图向家庭成员隐瞒饮酒而导致的。本甲醇中毒病例应提高人们对污染产品广泛传播的认识，以及对使用含替代乙醇的产品来掩盖酒精使用障碍复发的认识。
