Careful differential diagnosis is important because symptoms of ethylene glycol poisoning are similar to those of other intoxicants. Early, aggressive treatment with appropriate therapies, such as ethanol therapy, hemodialysis, vitamin cofactors, and antidotal agents, is necessary to prevent permanent ...
Ethylene glycol poisoning (ingestion) Haff disease after eating Buffalo fish Muscle breakdown after severe muscle injury or limb compression (common in chronic alcoholics) and other causes of increased excretion of myoglobin in urine (myoglobinuria) Sickle cell anemia and other causes of blood hemolysis...
hypoglycemia or ketoacidosis in diabetics, kidney failure, liver failure (hepatic encephalopathy with hyperammonemia in heavy drinkers), electrolyte imbalance (hyponatremia, hypernatremia), severe allergic reaction, head injury, stroke, CO2 poisoning, poisoning with methanol, ethylene glycol, suicide attempt...
drinking with the intent to get drunk or intoxicated, drinking and driving while under the influence of alcohol, loss of psychomotor coordination and speech, blackouts, vomiting, alcohol poisoning and associated deaths are considered