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What happens if you drink acetone?

14th Sep 2020

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This is a linkpost for https://dyno-might.github.io/2020/09/14/what-happens-if-you-drink-acetone/

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What happens if you drink acetone?

17romeostevensit

9Charlie Steiner

6Charlie Steiner

3Mary Chernyshenko

1Andrew Haisley

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[-]romeostevensit5y170

I wish there was more boggling at simple things like this posted to the internet.

[-]Bird Concept5y70

dynomight (OP) -- if you write more of it, I'd probably read it (subscribed to your posts).

Thank you, I found this slightly amusing.

[-]mako yass5y60

It's a relief to see that someone is finally speaking the truth about Acetone.

[-]Charlie Steiner4y90Review for 2020 Review

A deceptively awesome example of original seeing.

[-]DanielFilan4y70Review for 2020 Review

I drank acetone in 2021, which was plausibly causally downstream of this post.

...what happened to you?

[-]DanielFilan4y20

Nothing much? I probably should have consumed more to experience the effect more fully.

[-]Adele Lopez5y70

I think you missed the most interesting effect, which is that ingesting it would put you into some sort of ketosis or at higher levels: ketoacidosis.

[-]Charlie Steiner5y60

I'm curious about the comparison to drinking isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) instead, which is gradually metabolized into acetone (the actual psychoactive ingredient) inside the body. If you drink the same amount then gradual seems safer, but I'm not sure if it actually has a bigger difference between active dose and LD50 (or active dose and severe gastrointestinal inflammation).

[-]Mary Chernyshenko5y30

You get to play the Probably Somatic Mutation Roulette?..

A breath smelling of acetone can also occur when someone is losing weight very fast (extreme diets or the beginning of an eating disorder). An interesting tidbit.

[-]Andrew Haisley4y10

I’m surprised to learn that the answer seems to be nothing much.

https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/chemicals/chem_profiles/acetone.html

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