| It is a genuine wonderment about windshield wiper | | | | the liver. |
| liquid having to be a bright blue color. Whether it is to | | | | Ethanol is converted into acetaldehyde, an element |
| represent the "freeze" part of the anti-freeze, or to | | | | that causes liver and kidney damage when there is a |
| somehow represent an unnatural juice color to deter | | | | high accumulation of it. Carbon dioxide starts building up |
| others from drinking it, it is not always fool-proof. This | | | | from the formation of this formic acid. This entire |
| color is just too similar to the color of blue Kool-Aid, | | | | process, when in moderate situations, gives rise to |
| which is an artificially flavored juice powder mix. It is | | | | vomiting, pain, headaches, sleepiness and staggering. It |
| unfortunate in some cases. | | | | sounds very similar to alcohol poisoning, which is the |
| It was written all over the internet last year that a day | | | | case here since methanol is an alcohol. |
| care staff member had mistakenly poured cups of the | | | | You should take quick action to call the poison control |
| anti-freeze combo for less than a dozen of the day | | | | center and/or 911. While they guide you and what you |
| care children to drink. What was completely a mistake | | | | should do before the EMT arrives, the EMT will arrive |
| on behalf of the day care owner could have had near | | | | and most likely inject into the IV a dose of ethanol to |
| fatal consequences for all of those poor children. It is a | | | | counteract the methanol. And what can you do to |
| valid concern to think about how the staff member | | | | prevent this whole fatal occurrence from happening? |
| owner could not smell the strong methanol odor as | | | | For starters, you should never keep your car |
| she was pouring the liquid into the poor little children's | | | | maintenance supplies in the kitchen. Second of all, you |
| sippy cups. | | | | should look clearly at the package labeling. I'm sure the |
| The high acid level of windshield wiper fluids can kill | | | | container said "WINDSHIELD WIPER FLUID", but I'm |
| brain cells and damage the retina to the point of | | | | not sure how the day care center owner missed that. |
| blindness. It can also lead to a coma or a cardiac | | | | Lastly, the packaging should have child-proof caps on, |
| arrhythmia, where the heart could stop completely and | | | | so if it is that difficult to get the cap off, the package is |
| lead to death. Why these extreme consequences are | | | | not busted. It is protecting children from opening it and |
| happening are due to the process of methanol's toxic | | | | ingesting it! |
| byproducts from breaking down the existing ethanol in | | | | |