article_snippet: Highly toxic and potentially lethal, methanol ingestion can cause blindness and death.
article_snippet: Only a small amount is sufficient to produce acute damage to the central nervous system leading to permanent neurological dysfunction and irreversible blindness.
article_snippet: When ingested, it can cause bradycardia- slowing of the heartbeat.
article_snippet: In severe cases, this can lead to heart failure.
article_snippet: this also affects the nervous system causing nausea and dizziness and if absorbed through the skin, can lead to extreme difficulties in breathing and eventual coma or death.
article_snippet: If ingested ingested can also cause neurological damage.
article_snippet: Councillor Edward Bell, vice-chairman of the licensing committee, said: 'Potentially someone is going to get killed by this gut rot.'