{"id":68189,"date":"2025-10-11T13:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=68189"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:41:35","slug":"diethylene-glycol-deg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/diethylene-glycol-deg\/","title":{"rendered":"Diethylene Glycol (DEG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Diethylene Glycol Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least 14 children in India&#8217;s Madhya Pradesh died after consuming Coldrif syrup, found to contain a toxic contaminant, diethylene glycol (DEG).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Diethylene Glycol<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diethylene glycol (also known as <\/span><b>2,2-oxydiethanol and diglycol<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) is a c<\/span><b>lear, colourless, odourless liquid <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the <\/span><b>formula C4H10O3.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span><b> soluble both in water and in many organic compounds <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and has <\/span><b>hygroscopic properties<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which makes it a useful industrial chemical.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>primarily used in<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> industrial applications such as <\/span><b>antifreeze, brake fluids, and solvents.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>not intended for human consumption.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>When ingested, DEG is metabolised in the body into toxic compounds <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that can cause severe <\/span><b>kidney damage<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, leading to acute kidney injury, anuria (inability to urinate), and death.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Symptoms <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of poisoning can include <\/span><b>nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and lethargy, often progressing rapidly to renal failure.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/life-style\/health-fitness\/health-news\/what-is-diethylene-glycol-the-toxic-solvent-found-in-cough-syrups-that-killed-kids-in-india\/articleshow\/124432805.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TOI<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diethylene glycol (also known as 2,2-oxydiethanol and diglycol) is a clear, colourless, odourless liquid with the formula C4H10O3. Read more about Diethylene Glycol (DEG) Compound, Uses, Symptoms, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":68129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3190],"class_list":{"0":"post-68189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-diethylene-glycol","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}