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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday June 06 2023, @07:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the 7-year-old-inhaler dept.

In mice, the treatment decreased infections caused by the Influenza A virus:

Inhaling low concentrations of ethanol vapor can disable the influenza A virus in mice, without harmful side effects, says a new study by scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). The scientists believe it may also treat similar viruses such as the one that causes Covid-19.

[...] "Ethanol is an effective disinfectant for body surfaces, so we wanted to know whether ethanol could also be effective inside the body," said Dr. Miho Tamai, a scientist in Prof. Ishikawa's lab.

Using a humidifier to produce ethanol vapor in a small container, they found that when mice infected with influenza A inhale the vapor for ten minutes, the virus is inactivated. The study is published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Influenza A viruses accumulate in a thin fluid layer covering lung cells that protect the surface of the airway. The scientists think that the ethanol vapor must increase ethanol concentrations in the fluid to 20% to successfully treat the infection. This concentration is not toxic to lung cells the scientists created in the lab to mimic human cells. At body temperature, 20% ethanol can not only inactivate the influenza A virus outside of the cells in one minute, but also stop the virus from replicating inside these cells.

[...] Influenza A is a virus that has an outer membrane, called an envelope. "Ethanol vapor may also inactivate other enveloped viruses such as SARS-CoV-2," Prof. Ishikawa said, and so far, all viruses that have caused pandemics have been enveloped. "Once the next pandemic happens, maybe we can quickly apply the ethanol vapor inhalation therapy to prevent or cure the disease," he explained.

[...] The researchers believe that ethanol vapor inhalation treatment has great potential as a versatile and cost-effective new therapy against various respiratory infectious diseases. But Prof. Ishikawa cautioned that people should not try using ethanol as a therapy on their own. "That may lead to serious side-effects or explosion risks," he said. "The efficacy and safety of this new treatment on humans and other mammals should be carefully evaluated in the future."

Journal Reference:
Miho Tamai et al., Effect of Ethanol Vapor Inhalation Treatment on Lethal Respiratory Viral Infection With Influenza A, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023; https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiad089


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by looorg on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:06AM (5 children)

    by looorg (578) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:06AM (#1310089)

    > ... inhale the vapor for ten minutes
    How drunk did the mice become and did it have a hangover?

    > ... cautioned that people should not try using ethanol as a therapy on their own.
    To late. People been doing that for thousands of years already.

    Personally I prefer my ethanol aged in oak barrels and then drinking it. But sure I could huff it if needed.

    Is this the cure for the next pandemic? It might go down better then getting multiple injections.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:49AM (#1310093)

      You can inject ethanol.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 06 2023, @03:38PM (3 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @03:38PM (#1310125)

      >aged in oak barrels

      If those oak barrels are charred on the inside, then what the aging process is doing is extracting nasty unwanted chemicals from the fermentation/distillation process into the "charcoal filter" on the sides of the barrel.

      If the ethanol has been truly refined to purity, perhaps afterwards diluted with some distilled water, then it won't have any of those complex enjoyable flavors on the tongue, but neither will it have much in the way of hangover inducing nasties in it either, at least if you don't use it to the point of dehydration.

      I'm pretty sure the actual buzz is pretty much the same based on blood alcohol levels; don't try a breathalyzer right after the inhalation therapy, just blowing a breathalyzer immediately after drinking a shot of 80 proof rum will show absurdly high (erroneous) readings. However, a lot of how buzzed people perceive themselves to be often comes from those other non-alcoholic compounds found in the hangover inducing blends, particularly the cheaper ones.

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      • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:51AM (1 child)

        by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:51AM (#1310271) Homepage

        Someone did a test of very expensive vodka vs ultra-cheap vodka that had been run multiple times through a Britta filter, and concluded the only difference was in the level of filtering.

        [I have no idea. I prefer rum, and very little of it.]

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        • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 07 2023, @11:47AM

          by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @11:47AM (#1310320)

          My wife used to only drink Bacardi Rum, others she tried bothered her too much. One day I bought a jug of Goslings dark to try, and it's much much better, even she agreed, after many loud protests of "anything other than Bacardi gives me a terrible hangover.". The Goslings formula is of course secret, but I believe heavily charred barrels are part of it. The same alcohol is there, but lacking those other organics it's much less harsh to drink and also less hangover inducing.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @09:22AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @09:22AM (#1310309)
        So far I think I only get hangover symptoms from wine or related booze (e.g. brandy).

        Beer, vodka, whisky and rum OK.

        Not sure what they put in wine that makes it worse - is it the added sulfites? Beer supposedly would have some sulfites though.
  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @11:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @11:50AM (#1310100)

    Where is former SN contributor, Ethanol Fueled? He'd certainly feel vindicated by this news.

    Hey Eth, are you out there?

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 06 2023, @12:21PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @12:21PM (#1310104) Journal

    Can you inhale aristarchus too, or is that more for enemas?

    [slaps own hand] bad Gaaark... :)

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @04:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @04:03PM (#1310132)

      Result is always the same.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @01:54PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @01:54PM (#1310110)

    Hot Toddys work then.

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 06 2023, @03:41PM (4 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @03:41PM (#1310126)

      Don't even have to swallow, but you do have to inhale.

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday June 06 2023, @06:03PM (2 children)

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 06 2023, @06:03PM (#1310152) Journal

        But then you must blow into a tube to prove you are not intoxicated.

        Even much more worser, some cars require a breathalyzer in order to start the engine. Shirley, there must be a way to modify them to provide ethanol vapor for inhaling.

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        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Tuesday June 06 2023, @08:24PM (1 child)

          by RS3 (6367) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @08:24PM (#1310186)

          Now that you mention it, I gotta wonder if the ethanol gets to the brain much faster though nasal / sinus passages.

          IIRC there have been news stories where a yute was swimming in a stream and got brain-eating amoeba and they said the water up the nose, soft wet sinuses, great amoeba hotel stop on the way to yummy brain nearby.

          Point is, person may be more intoxicated than blood alcohol would indicate.

          But maybe you don't need much ethanol to kill the viruses and bacteria. I've always wondered about this kind of treatment- if it would be effective. They do clean lungs with saline (can't imagine what that must be like) called "lavage", as well as other things like "gut wash".

          https://www.henryford.com/services/pulmonary/treatments/interventional-pulmonology/whole-lung-lavage [henryford.com]

          https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506114/ [nih.gov]

          https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(76)80001-7/fulltext [gastrojournal.org]

          • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:44PM

            by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:44PM (#1310341) Journal

            Officer: I smell the odor of alcohol.
            Motorist: It's okay officer, that is just my ethanol vapor device needed to start the engine.

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      • (Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday June 07 2023, @01:59AM

        by sjames (2882) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @01:59AM (#1310264) Journal

        OK Bill, put the brownie down.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by DadaDoofy on Tuesday June 06 2023, @03:04PM (17 children)

    by DadaDoofy (23827) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @03:04PM (#1310117)

    This would never be adopted as a treatment. We've already been down this road. There were a number of inexpensive and effective ways to treat Covid, but all were ridiculed, shot down or just plain denied to people because big pharma couldn't make money from them.

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:05PM (1 child)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:05PM (#1310139)

      ridiculed, shot down or just plain denied

      "Nazis on the internet are trying to treat covid using alcohol in a chilling repeat of the Beer Hall Putsch and must be stopped!"

      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:41PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:41PM (#1310145)

        You jest, but more than one Pharma company is either having planning meetings, or more likely already had them due to advance knowledge of this publication, for how to spin-control this message such that it does not negatively impact sales of their drugs. All channels are (practically, if not legally) open to them: from news stories to journal publications to carpet-bombing social media.

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    • (Score: 2, Troll) by maxwell demon on Tuesday June 06 2023, @06:16PM (8 children)

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @06:16PM (#1310155) Journal

      There were a number of inexpensive and effective ways to treat Covid

      Such as?

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      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @09:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @09:29PM (#1310213)

        Injecting bleach was right up there with the best*.

        *See Darwin, Charles: Natural Selection

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @01:19AM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @01:19AM (#1310256)

        Ivermectin?

        CuI + I2 ( result of CuSO4 + KI reaction ) ?

        It's an iodine source, like Lugol's iodine. I don't know if the copper component is active in it's reaction. I do know ammonia and iodine are quite reactive to form nitrogen tri-iodide, which in small quantities, was a fun prank to place in ashtrays. Iodine will also kill off ammonia based odors by stripping the nitrogen off the smelly molecule. It may well strip off amino groups from organic molecules in much the same way, but I haven't researched much in this area.

        Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS) Chlorine Dioxide ( bleach ) from NaClO2 + Citric Acid? (This stuff is used to bleach wood pulp white for making paper. Very potent and powerful stuff. It's also the active ingredient in a lot of emergency water purification tablets. This is the bleach FDA is warning about. It kills quite toxic. Useful if used properly. Otherwise, like a chainsaw, if used improperly, will maim and kill.

        https://duckduckgo.com/?q=miracle+mineral+solution [duckduckgo.com]

        Submitted for anyone else to make what they will of these little snippets.

        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Reziac on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:55AM (4 children)

          by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:55AM (#1310272) Homepage

          I read the paper on ivermectin vs covid that seems to be the source of the claim that it was effective. Yeah, it killed covid virus, in the petri dish (was not tested on live animals), at a concentration of about 50x the lethal dose. At that concentration, table salt (or just about anything else) would probably have worked as well, if not better.

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          • (Score: 4, Insightful) by anubi on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:13AM (3 children)

            by anubi (2828) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:13AM (#1310298) Journal

            Neither "side" here can be taken at face value.

            The patent medicine vendors are fervently protecting an incredibly profitable cash cow.

            While the other camp is taking great offense at the legalized gouging being stoked by marketing professionals and investment groups using legal maneuvering, censorship, bribery, and fear tactics to control people.

            Many people in both camps publish their beliefs based on opinion ,confirmation bias, and economic consideration, all of which make poor proxies for fact.

            This leaves the rest of us to fend for ourselves in an environment of ignorance, greed, and marketing skills in lieu of truth.

            Way too many of us know whenever people are censored, it's a sure sign that "there is something rotten in the state of Denmark."

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            • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Reziac on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:53AM

              by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:53AM (#1310301) Homepage

              No disagreement there. It's become a morass of conflicting nonsense with a few facts forlornly floating in the sludge.

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            • (Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday June 07 2023, @06:48PM (1 child)

              by cmdrklarg (5048) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 07 2023, @06:48PM (#1310383)

              When the manufacturer of Ivermectin states that it is ineffective vs. COVID19 you can probably believe them. Can you imagine how much they would make if it actually WAS effective?

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              • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Thursday June 08 2023, @02:35AM

                by Reziac (2489) on Thursday June 08 2023, @02:35AM (#1310451) Homepage

                Since the patent ran out some years ago, there is no single manufacturer of ivermectin. Multiple generics are available and I doubt any of them said a word about it.

                Also, ivermectin is cheap, a few cents per dose. (Plus or minus liability "for human use".)

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        • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday June 08 2023, @05:46AM

          by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday June 08 2023, @05:46AM (#1310473) Journal

          Miracle Mineral Solution

          Thanks for mentioning this: This way I know that there is no value looking into your other suggestions. At best, you are clueless.

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @11:39PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @11:39PM (#1310249)

      Inexpensive? Yes.

      Effective? ? ? Citation needed.

      • (Score: 2, Informative) by anubi on Wednesday June 07 2023, @06:16AM (3 children)

        by anubi (2828) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @06:16AM (#1310292) Journal

        This forum piqued my curiosity.

        While researching this story for personal reasons, I came across this, which I will repost here.

        Citation:

        https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36505954/ [nih.gov]

        N.B. : Tito's Vodka, a highly distilled Corn likker, is 80 proof, 40% ethanol.

        I will be trying this if I come down with anything like this again, and will share this with any of my friends, of which I consider the SN community to be.

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        • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:57AM (2 children)

          by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:57AM (#1310303) Homepage

          I suppose you'd get the same effect from adding spirits to a humidifier, but did any of these articles mention the effective concentration?

          I'm wondering if just inhaling fumes straight from the bottle would do.

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          • (Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday June 07 2023, @09:30AM (1 child)

            by anubi (2828) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @09:30AM (#1310310) Journal

            In the link I posted...

            "They were randomly assigned to receive distilled water spray (control group (CG)) or 35% EtOH spray (intervention group (IG)). Both groups inhaled three puffs of spray (nebulizer) every six hours for a week...."

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            • (Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Wednesday June 07 2023, @12:48PM

              by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @12:48PM (#1310324) Homepage

              Ah, missed it, thanks. Had apparently used up my entire day's allotment of brain.

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    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:08AM

      by sjames (2882) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @02:08AM (#1310265) Journal

      Unlike the COVID "treatments", this is backed by scientific evidence.

      That's not to say that big pharma won't make every effort to come out with a series of expensive inferior medications and patent them out the wazoo.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:10PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:10PM (#1310141)

    You know this has the potential to end up just like "booting". No, I never did that but I heard about it. The thing is, as much as people hate to hurl when they drink too much, it's the body's natural defense against alcohol poisoning. You have to imbibe a lot to get around that, which people do. The problem with alternative techniques for alcohol consumption is that it bypasses that defense. Once it's in the blood stream, it's too late. I don't know if you'd always pass out from inhaled ethanol before you hit a lethal dose; but you definitely don't pass out fast enough from "booting", and people have died from that. Of course people die from regular oral ingestion too. I'm not saying that's safe, just that it's not as bad.

    Alcohol is actually one of the more dangerous drugs in general, but gets a pass in the West because it's integrated in to our society. Interesting fact--you can actually die from alcohol withdrawal, but you generally don't die from heroin withdrawal. Heroin addicts were sometimes "maintained" by doctors in the post-legal era when there were society dames who had gotten hooked when it was legal. I don't know how that impacted their lifespan, but it's generally understood that the high death rate of opiate addicts is due to the street drugs being improperly dosed and/or cut with something. These days it's fentanyl which is particularly heinous; but it's always been a problem. The best thing a doctor could do to treat most addicts is counsel them and secure a pure, properly dosed supply; but ZOMG! DRUGS! Can't have that. Let's go to the local bar, we can talk it out over a couple beers and I'll explain why.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Tuesday June 06 2023, @06:59PM

      by pTamok (3042) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @06:59PM (#1310166)

      Maintaining some people on a habit is hard, because some people have a tendency to chase the highs they got when they first took the drug, and end up taking greater and greater doses.

      There are plenty of documented case reports of people (often medical doctors) maintaining a heroin habit for decades: but I suspect they are a minority, and it is aberrant behaviour - enough self control to not keep increasing the dose. I could be wrong: many, if not most drinkers of alcohol have sufficient self control to not become alcoholics, so it is plausible that the same could be true for users of heroin - but I've not seen any data on that.

      I firmly believe drugs policy should be founded on evidence-based harm reduction, not punishment. However, I am in a minority. A lot of moral judgements come into play when dealing with drug consumption.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:49PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:49PM (#1310233)

      Is that "booting" or "boofing"?

      "Boofing" is an alcohol enema.

      I discovered this only a few minutes ago during search engine queries on "booting alcohol".

      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=booting+alcohol [duckduckgo.com]

      Actually, I intend to try the vapor inhalation thingies the next time I get respiratory issues. I have an ultrasonic nebulizer. I'll put vodka in it and see what happens.

      I only wish I could trust doctors, but the marketing profession has replaced ethics with financial incentives to influence business models, forcing me to do my own research.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @08:38PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @08:38PM (#1310396)

        I could have sworn it was "booting" because where I'm from "boofing" is anal sex, and I've always thought the etymology was "butt fuck" transforming to "bu fu" and having the vowels change to the "oo" sound for pronunciation, then dropping the last vowel and adding -ing for the verb form.

        Of course I'm a bit older, so that might only be true for my generation. Kind of funny to think that the kids might be saying they're "boofing" and the adults laughing at them thinking it's bu fu.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:15PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:15PM (#1310142)

    20% ethanol can not only inactivate the influenza A virus outside of the cells in one minute, but also stop the virus from replicating inside these cells.

    That's all very dramatic, but much like how a fever doesn't magically "fix" anything but it tilts the odds in your immune system's side enough to be worth the effort, technically all you need to do is prove ethanol provides a small net benefit, not that it can nuke all viruses from orbit in milliseconds just to be sure.

    In the long run a couple shots of whiskey per day is probably a big net loss for your liver, but for a couple days if you're getting mild cold symptoms, might be a net gain to your overall health.

    I've had some luck in past decades with treating sore throats and similar minor cold/cough stuff with a couple cold beers or equivalent.

    Can't overlook the mental health benefits including better recovery from relaxing.

    • (Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:37PM (3 children)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 06 2023, @05:37PM (#1310144)

      >I've had some luck in past decades with treating sore throats and similar minor cold/cough stuff with a couple cold beers or equivalent.

      I've had some luck in the past decades with treating newly developing sore throats and similar with ~1/4 shot of straight 80 proof rum just before bed. Just enough to coat the obviously infected surfaces, and at a time when it's not going to be quickly washed away.

      About a decade ago, I heard that first-line medical advice for wound healing had shifted to emphasize that alcohol and peroxide should only be used for initial cleaning to reduce infection loads. It seems that after that, the disinfectants' damage to your own tissues actually slows the healing process more than any residual/later bacteria that might get in under any decent bandage.

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      • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @08:58PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @08:58PM (#1310204)

        > treating newly developing sore throats

        My father (a down east Yankee from small town Maine, pre-WW1) was taught to lightly swab developing upper sore throats with Mercurochrome, before anyone knew that the mercury could be a problem. Then he switched to iodine.

        I've switched to hydrogen peroxide (3%, drug store standard in USA). Soak a Q-tip/cotton swab and coat the painful areas, try not to gag when hitting the soft palate... Then don't eat/drink for awhile.

        The directions say it can be used for a mouth wash (diluted 50-50 with water to 1.5%), but don't swallow, so if a tiny bit goes down I don't worry about it. Anecdotally, if I do this at the first sign of a sore throat, I'd say it's well over 50% effective in stopping it right there.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:46PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 06 2023, @10:46PM (#1310230)

          Not only that, it gets you nicely fucked up. Alcohol - what can it not do???

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @09:32AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 07 2023, @09:32AM (#1310311)

        the disinfectants' damage to your own tissues actually slows the healing process

        But if they might be infected it's better to "nuke em all" with the 80 proof to be sure. If you're worried about bacterial infection you could follow up with olive oil to coat the "damaged" areas.

        YMMV - it's kind Biblical - oil and wine used to treat wounds: https://biblehub.com/luke/10-34.htm [biblehub.com]

  • (Score: 2) by jb on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:34AM

    by jb (338) on Wednesday June 07 2023, @07:34AM (#1310299)

    So, those of us who enjoy sniffing our cognac before drinking it finally know why we didn't get covid.

    Think I'll pour one now to celebrate this welcome discovery.

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