[Methanol kinetics in chronic alcoholism]

Abstract

Blood tests from 39 persons, who had been admitted to a local hospital for alcoholics, were analysed. The methanolconcentrations at the reception time lay between 10 and 82 mg/kg and the BAC between 2.00 and 3.83%. In all cases, when Ethanol existed in a sufficient concentration the Methanolconcentration showed a horizontal trend. A Methanolelimination was not observed. Only after exceeding a limiting value of Ethanol, which fluctuated between 0.8 and 0.2%, in most of the cases under 0.2%, the Methanolcurves increased significantly. An Ethanolelimination was observed between 0.15 and 0.25% per hour, the average was about 0.19%.