n-Butyl Alcohol

A) TOXICITY: Minimal lethal or toxic doses are not well established. Ingestion of about 30 mL of tertiary amyl alcohol was fatal in an adult. Another adult died following an enema of 35 grams of tertiary amyl alcohol. An adult who drank 27 g of tertiary amyl alcohol developed coma, dyspnea, irregular pulse, and recovered. An adult developed a mixed acidosis with elevated anion gap but recovered after ingesting an estimated 130 mL of 1-propanol and 300 mL of 2-propranol.