Antifreeze lethal as colon cleanser

You mentioned in a recent column that ethylene glycol (antifreeze) is toxic to animals. It is also toxic to humans? I am a doctor, and I prescribe for my patients to clean your colon called Go-Lytely (which makes a person do anything, but go lightly). The main ingredient in Go-Lytely is polyethylene glycol, which sounds like a huge amount of ethylene glycol, or antifreeze. So when prescribing Go-Lytely to prepare my patients for a colonoscopy, I'm really prescribe anti-freeze? If so, I just want to tell my patients down gallon of Preston and save yourself a trip to the pharmacy?

Tom: Well, the sending off of their patients to colonoscopy with a bottle of Preston is contraindicated, doc. I would not recommend it.

RAY: While wait a minute. Antifreeze has rust inhibitors. Maybe they keep the arteries clean?

TOM: You will not need to ingest antifreeze arteries. The two related substances (polymers are, as they say the chemicals), but have different effects on the human body. Glycolic polyethelyne - the material that gives his patients - a molecule is too large, too large to be easily absorbed by the body. Its function is to block the absorption of water.

RAY: So, when patients drink 17 liters of water with the Go-Lytely, according to the instructions, all that does not absorb water acts as a "flush", which is what patients end up doing the night before your procedure.

TOM: ethylene glycol (antifreeze), on the other hand, is a very small molecule that is absorbed by the intestine. And according to Dr. Arthur J. Berman, assistant professor of clinical medicine at Columbia University Medical School and a Go-Lytely prescriber yourself, if you ingest antifreeze, getting your annual colonoscopy is the last thing you'll have to worry about.

RAY: He tells us that humans, ethylene glycol is metabolized to oxalic acid, a poison that affects the brain, heart, and - if you live long enough - the kidneys.

Tom: So, Preston is not a substitute for the Go-Lytely. On the other hand, I am anxious to know if Go-Lytely can be a substitute for Preston. So if you write me a prescription, I'll throw a gala in my bag. And the next time I overheated, I pour it in the radiator and get my health insurer for reimbursement.I have a 2001 Toyota 4Runner with 160,000 miles. I also have a pop-up fields that I pull from time to time with the 4Runner. I just made a trip from Colorado to Minnesota pulling the Camper. The 20 percent of the last trip, while traveling on the interstate, the 4Runner started jumping very well - so much that my daughter was walking Horsey Because the market for ride in his car in the back seat. I jumped up and down the coupling to the 4Runner, and continued to jump a couple of times before stopping. I need new shock?

RAY: Well, let's assume you have checked the tires, Keith, to make sure it is not inflationary.