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The current study presents six cases of methanol poisoning that attended the emergency department of King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia, between March and November 2022. All of the patients suffered from severe metabolic acidosis and visual impairment following the ingestion of homemade alcoholic beverages and colonia. Three patients were comatose, suffered from post-cardiac pulmonary arrest, and, finally, died, while the other three were non-comatose and discharged from the ICU after improvement. Management was based on clinical symptoms and other laboratory findings due to a shortage of methanol level measurement resources. The antidote, fomepizole, was not given to all of the cases due to its deficiency, and ethanol was given only to one patient due to difficulties in administering it without monitoring its concentration. Methanol poisoning and its outbreak provide insights into the dangers of hazardous homemade alcohol and other pharmaceutical preparations that might be adulterated with methanol, particularly to the shortage of suitable diagnostic testing and antidotes in addition to poor resources for management of intoxicated patients in some regions of Saudi Arabia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm12134282","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,27]],"date-time":"2023-06-27T02:11:22Z","timestamp":1687831882000},"page":"4282","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Case Reports Study on Methanol Poisoning in King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Ghadi I.","family":"Alqurashi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Pharmacy Department, King Abdulaziz Hospital, Taif 26521, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Saudi Toxicology Society, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fahad S.","family":"Alqurashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pharmacy Department, King Abdulaziz Hospital, Taif 26521, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Khalid M.","family":"Alhusayni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pharmacy Department, King Abdulaziz Hospital, Taif 26521, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alaa H.","family":"Falemban","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Saudi Toxicology Society, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5725-3522","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yosra Z.","family":"Alhindi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6453-754X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Safaa M.","family":"Alsanosi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7782-0574","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Abdullah R.","family":"Alzahrani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Saudi Toxicology Society, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Saeed S.","family":"Al-Ghamdi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Saudi Toxicology Society, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4490-889X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nahla","family":"Ayoub","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Saudi Toxicology Society, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"},{"name":"Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah 21955, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1007\/s00134-004-2521-0","article-title":"Current recommendations for treatment of severe toxic alcohol poisonings","volume":"31","author":"Borron","year":"2005","journal-title":"Intensive Care Med."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"208","DOI":"10.2215\/CJN.03220807","article-title":"Toxic alcohol ingestions: Clinical features, diagnosis, and management","volume":"3","author":"Kraut","year":"2008","journal-title":"Clin. 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