Doctors pump 5-litre beer to man's stomach to cure alcohol poisoning

Doctors at a Vietnam hospital pumped almost five litres of beer into 48-year-old Nguyen Van Nhat's stomach to save him from dying of alcohol poisoning. Doctors decided to take the step after the methanol level in his blood was found 1,119 times higher than normal. Methanol in Nhat's body oxidised and turned into formic acid, making him unconscious, doctors said.