Question

Our bodies use alcohol dehyrogenase to break methanol into formaldehyde, which is highly toxic. To prevent this from happening, doctors give methanol poisoning patents ethanol. What does the body do with ethanol and why would that be helpful in preventing methanol poisoning? (Please type the answer so it's easy to read.)

Answer 1

What the body does with ethanol. 1) The intake of ethanol at a moderate level reduces stress and also increases the general well being of an individual. 2) Excess consumption of ethanol can result to addiction and increases trauma in a person. 3) Ethanol is broken down in the live of the body by an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase( ADH). Which changes ethanol into a toxic compound called acetaldehyde ( CH3CHO) which is carcinogen. B) Ethanol can prevent methanol posoining because Ethanol helps to reduce the action of alchohol dehydrogenase on methanol by means of a competitive inhibition.