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CASE REPORT article
Front. Med.
Sec. Pulmonary Medicine
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1545428
Occupational Methanol Toxicity: A Case Report
Provisionally accepted- 1 Ministry of Health (Saudi Arabia), Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 2 Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
This case report describes a case of methanol occupational toxicity in a 44-year-old male ship worker following in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on August 27, 2024. The patient suddenly lost sight in both eyes and had an unusual acid-base disturbance that was marked by respiratory alkalosis (pH 7.607). This is different from the acidosis that is usually seen in methanol poisoning. Despite aggressive treatment with FOMEPIZOLE, the methanol antidote, and 4 hemodialysis sessions, the patient's visual prognosis remained poor. This case highlights the potentially devastating consequences of inhalational and contact methanol poisoning and the importance of prompt recognition and treatment, even in the absence of significant neuroimaging findings. It also underscores the need for proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the workplace.
Keywords: methanol toxicity, Inhalation, Vision Loss, Metabolic alkalosis, optic neuropathy.
Received: 18 Dec 2024; Accepted: 21 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Alrougi, Saqah, Khojah and Amer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Hamoud M Alrougi, Ministry of Health (Saudi Arabia), Riyadh, 11176, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Samar Ahmed Amer, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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