A 2-years-old boy was admitted to children Hospital in Columbus after drinking organophosphate, a commercial-type insecticide.
The poison eventually paralyzes the respiratory muscle, and the child
was already showing signs of ascending paralysis. When physicians went
to their supply closer, they found that the single bottle of the only
known antidote-protopam Chloride-was dried up.
A call was placed to the other Poison Center. In less than 2 hours police, carrying the precious antidote, met and Air Force jet from Columbus. The antidote reached the hospital in time. The child was discharged the next day.
The case was dramatic, but it was only one of the thousands handled yearly by the Poison Center.
What Would You Do?
When a research firm under an expert’s guidance asked a group of young parents, that what would they do if their child swallowed something poisonous? The results were surprising. Only 2 of the group said they would call the poison center. Many said they would follow the label instructions or call their family doctors.
That would be fine that if the doctor happened to knew how to treat ingestion of something like Sherwin-William Jade Green Enamel Paint, said the expert.
Skull and crossbones 6 symbols were selected for a testing program at day-care centers. Among the symbols were a stop sign, skull and crossbones, and scowling face with a protruding tongue, essentially a negative version of the smile button. The symbols were placed on identical bottles of amber fluid to represent typical products a child might see at home. The children were invited to play with any one or more of the bottles; each was then asked to indicate bottles that would not like to play with.
A doctor said that when people think of poison, they think about arsenic. When you ask them, what about Drani, they reply yes they guess about it, but they never really think of it. We are selling something people don’t want to hear about. We have to use every thing we can think of to get it out.
Green Potato Salad:
An expert said that we get calls from people who notice that the potato salad in the refrigerator is green and they want to know if they can eat it. During mushroom recalls we get a lot of questions about that, but we also get calls involving drug abuse and suicides. Our staff has emergency-room, so we can handle those calls immediately. Later, our social workers go out to see some of them, or we refer them to the proper agency.
In Allegheny County, where the network is based, not one child under five was reported to have died from accidental poison ingestion during the last four years.
There are probably many factors responsible for it, but we like to think that we deserve part of the credit, a doctor said.
A call was placed to the other Poison Center. In less than 2 hours police, carrying the precious antidote, met and Air Force jet from Columbus. The antidote reached the hospital in time. The child was discharged the next day.
The case was dramatic, but it was only one of the thousands handled yearly by the Poison Center.
What Would You Do?
When a research firm under an expert’s guidance asked a group of young parents, that what would they do if their child swallowed something poisonous? The results were surprising. Only 2 of the group said they would call the poison center. Many said they would follow the label instructions or call their family doctors.
That would be fine that if the doctor happened to knew how to treat ingestion of something like Sherwin-William Jade Green Enamel Paint, said the expert.
Skull and crossbones 6 symbols were selected for a testing program at day-care centers. Among the symbols were a stop sign, skull and crossbones, and scowling face with a protruding tongue, essentially a negative version of the smile button. The symbols were placed on identical bottles of amber fluid to represent typical products a child might see at home. The children were invited to play with any one or more of the bottles; each was then asked to indicate bottles that would not like to play with.
A doctor said that when people think of poison, they think about arsenic. When you ask them, what about Drani, they reply yes they guess about it, but they never really think of it. We are selling something people don’t want to hear about. We have to use every thing we can think of to get it out.
Green Potato Salad:
An expert said that we get calls from people who notice that the potato salad in the refrigerator is green and they want to know if they can eat it. During mushroom recalls we get a lot of questions about that, but we also get calls involving drug abuse and suicides. Our staff has emergency-room, so we can handle those calls immediately. Later, our social workers go out to see some of them, or we refer them to the proper agency.
In Allegheny County, where the network is based, not one child under five was reported to have died from accidental poison ingestion during the last four years.
There are probably many factors responsible for it, but we like to think that we deserve part of the credit, a doctor said.
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