What is the immediate treatment for methanol poisoning? 

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Methanol is oxidised by alcohol dehydrogenase to formaldehyde which causes the acute toxicity. Antidote to methanol poisoning is ethanol which is the natural substrate for alcohol dehydrogenase. So ethanol is preferentially utilised.

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