the use of a solvent for pain relief that led to medical personnel caring for her to collapse was the story on a recent Murdoch mysteries.
Not the best episode, since the plot was unbelievable.
Or was it?
An investigation by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory proposed that Ramirez had been self-administering dimethyl sulfoxide as a treatment for pain, which converted into dimethyl sulfate, an extremely poisonous and highly carcinogenic alkylating agent, via a series of chemical reactions in the emergency room.
In medicine, DMSO is predominantly used as a topical analgesic,
a vehicle for topical application of pharmaceuticals, as an anti-inflammatory, and an antioxidant.[29] Because DMSO increases the rate of absorption of some compounds through biological tissues, including skin, it is used in some transdermal drug delivery systems.
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