The medical rewrite today is for Wedding Crashers. The deep dives will be about tetrahydrozoline, an active ingredient in eye drops and sugar alcohols. Please note that this podcast discusses the poisoning found in the movie Wedding Crashers.

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References 

Systemic absorption after topical administration of tetrahydrozoline https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21972870/ 

Alpha 2 agonism on the GI track https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6148675/ 

Absolutely wild toxicology study of tetrahydrozoline in 19 infants from 1956 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13295960/ 

Case report and of CV toxicity after oral tetrahydrozoline https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15388224/ 

Tetrahydrozoline toxicity review of the literature https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24760708/ 

Use of tetrahydrozoline in sexual assault

· https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22554870/

· https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37278617/ 

Incredible reviews of Haribo Gummy Bears made with maltitol https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/michaelrusch/haribo-gummy-bear-reviews-on-amazon-are-the-most-insane-thin 

Diarrhea dose finding study in adult males https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12548293/ 

Diarrhea dose finding study in adult females https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18797153/ 

Maltitol organic chemistry – making it a solution https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32698373/