Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead

Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MelastSB@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vodka it is, then

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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The older I get, the more problems that vodka solves.

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• dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wouldn’t beer have less infection risk because of the alcohol? Disclaimer, I didn’t read any of the articles and have no expertise beyond drinking beer.

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As far as I know, some alcoholic drinks have certain alcohol levels because those levels are the lethal levels for the fermenting bacteria used.

    But there are different alcohol levels in brewed drinks, so either it’s not true or bacteria have a range of lethal temperatures.

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    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nitpicking: the fermentation is done by a fungus, specifically a yeast strain. The fermentation process stops when you introduce oxygen, aka open the fermentation tank, or when the sugar in the wort is depleted. The yeast then just becomes inactive and you can potentially restart the fermentation at home by putting sugar in the beer and sealing it airtight. Most commercial beers remove the yeast through filtering or pasteurizing or both tho, so that would probably only work for craft beer. And it would make the result taste terrible I assume.

      Some bacteria do not tolerate alcohol at all and will die from beer, but generally beer is not a disinfectant. Vodka isn’t either by the way, still too low levels of alcohol. But it works better than beer.

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh I thought yeast was a bacteria, huh.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Beer doesn’t have a high enough alcohol volume level to be a disinfectant (recommended is 70+% ethanol, beer has 4-5%), just high enough so the fermenting process comes to a halt by inactivating the bacteria causing it.

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• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would think that alcohol on the eyes wouldn’t do too many good things to them, however

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really, no. It was more a tongue-in-cheek comment than an actual suggestion.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you want ethanol then chili vodka would be better than beer as it has fewer other components

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  • maniel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, and if you’re into the pain it will cause, you can try moonshine

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• manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Best practice is to use saline and a clean cloth to clean spray off with mechanical force

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