Ocular toxicity in methyl alcohol poisoning: a clinical and histo-pathological study on human eye

ABSTRACT

The clinical effects of methanol poisoning on human eyes were studied on all cases of methyl alcohol poisoning refered to the Poison Control Center of Ain Shams University for the last 2 years [1985,1986j. The pupillary changes, visual acuity and ophthalmoscopic findings were recorded. The histopathological changes of 8 eyes 4 cases died from methanol toxicity were also studied. Our study and results were compared with that reported in the literature on ocular toxicity of methanol which were in most of it on experimental animals