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Popular poisons Part 1 (Teacher: Michael)
A patient once rang me to say that his son had swallowed
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small battery which had been taken out of his camcorder. What would happen? I was defeated.
I had to ring
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nearest hospital, where antidotes for poisons are in
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hands of
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expert. There was
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possibility that
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battery might cause
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obstruction in
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lad's bowel; but this was unlikely.
Children can swallow
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extraordinarily large variety of solid objects - coins and even brooches and chunks of modelling plaster.
Usually, one's advice is to wait and watch. But
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real problem in
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above case was whether
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battery contained any rare poisons. It did - over
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dozen. However, there are many far more common poisons which occasionally even grown-ups swallow as well as youngsters.
There are several reasons for
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increase in accidental poisoning.
Firstly, tablets which adults can take in safety are left where children - who can't take them safely - can get to them.
In addition, children don't bother about
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dose. If
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tablets are pretty and sugary, as is often
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case, they will swallow
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dozen or more.
So all medicines should be kept in
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very safe place; and
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cupboard out of reach is not always safe. Children are crafty, and they can get up on chairs and reach
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most impossible places.
In addition, patients do tend to keep tablets and liquids far too long after
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need for them has gone. There's
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common idea that - like many other things some of us tend to keep - these tablets "may come in useful".
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