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Isopropanol (Commonly Rubbing Alcohol)
- Rubbing alcohol is 70% isopropanol, like drinking Bacardi 151 (151 proof)
- This is NOT a toxic alcohol in the traditional sense
- This causes a large ketosis, large osmol gap but NO anion gap and no acidosis
- This is because isopropanol is metabolized to acetone (a ketone) not an acid
- Toxicity: inebriation, hemorrhagic gastritis, sedation to the point of death/intubation