Poisoning

Poisoning Overview
If you, a family member, or a friend has swallowed or breathed in a poison and you have serious signs or symptoms (nausea, vomiting, pain, trouble breathing, seizure, confusion, or abnormal skin color), ...
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Poisoning: First aid
Many conditions mimic the signs and symptoms of poisoning, including seizures, alcohol intoxication, stroke and insulin reaction.
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Poisoning, antifreeze: Poisoning from antifreeze which today is usually ethylene glycol -- a clear, colorless, odorless liquid with a sweet taste -- that can produce dramatic and dangerous toxicity.
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Poisoning first aid
Definition:
Poisoning caused by swallowing, injecting, breathing in, or otherwise being exposed to a poisonous substance.
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Lead poisoning develops when people ingest or inhale lead, usually over a long period of time.
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Poisoning
Dr Trisha Macnair
Poisoning means ingesting toxic substances and is common in childhood.
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Poisoning from an overdose of hydrogen peroxide.
Symptoms & Signs
Body pain
Burns in the oral cavity and throat
Temporary white appearance to exposed skin
Abdominal discomfort and cramping
Vomiting ...
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CO poisoning can occur when small amounts of CO are inhaled over a long time. It can also occur when large amounts of CO are absorbed over a short time, especially in a closed setting such as a garage or car.
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Drug Poisoning
Related Category: Pathology
toxic effects caused by an administered drug. Worldwide more than 9 million natural and synthetic chemicals have been identified; fewer than 3000 cause more than 95% of acidental and deliberate poisonings.
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Lead poisoning is a totally preventable disease.
Lead exposure can harm young children and babies  even before they are born.
Even children that seem healthy can have high levels of lead in their bodies.
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Lead poisoning: An environmental hazard capable of causing brain damage. In the US lead poisoning is formally defined as having at least 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood. (The average level of lead, for people ages 1 to 70, is 2.
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ARSENIC POISONING - A severe poisoning that occurs after the exposure (ingested or inhaled). Signs and symptoms include: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, rapid heart rate, apprehension, and difficulty breathing.
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After a poisoning that occurs indoors, your doctor will ask about the condition of fuel-burning appliances and equipment in your home and at work and about the quality of ventilation in these areas.
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POISONING
SYMPTOMS"Something was swallowed, smelled, or touched that caused the person to be poisoned.
CAUSES"We live in the Chemical Age, and it is taking us down rapidly. Sometimes the ongoing poisoning becomes especially serious.
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Poisoning is still a common cause of unintentional injury. This article looks at the safe storage of poisons and chemicals, and what to do in an emergency.
This article gives an understanding of visual problems, particularly in young children.
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Poisoning - A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection or inhalation of, or exposure to a deleterious agent.
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Poisoning: Symptoms and Prevention
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"Poisoning" from plants such as poison ivy, poison sumac, and poison oak is an allergic reaction that happens when your skin touches these plants. Contact with the oil in these plants causes most people to have a rash, blisters, and itching.
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In poisoning cases, stomach flushing should not be used if the poison is a strong corrosive acid (hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid), alkali (lye, ammonia), or a volatile hydrocarbon such as gasoline.
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Lead Poisoning
This Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Dispatch details the case of a child who died as a result of lead poisoning after ingesting a small metallic charm...more ...
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Food poisoning and traveler's diarrhea are two other common causes. They occur from eating food or drinking water contaminated with bacteria or parasites.
Certain medical conditions can also lead to diarrhea, such as: ...
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blood poisoning
Infection within the circulatory system. A potentially life-threatening condition that requires prompt treatment.
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Ammonia Poisoning
Ammonia is a product of waste from a fish’s excrement or respiration.
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Arsenic poisoning may produce white lines and horizontal ridges
Silver intake can produce a blue nail ...
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heavy metal poisoning
In addition, some children are born with nerve problems that can keep the bladder from releasing urine, leading to urinary infections or kidney damage.
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Diagnose lead poisoning.
Monitor treatment for lead poisoning.
Screen for lead poisoning in geographic areas where the risk is high (such as in large metropolitan areas) or in certain occupations at high risk.
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Preventing Food Poisoning: Seafood Safety
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familial periodic; paralysis, obstetric; paralyssa; paralytic; paralytical; paralytic dementia; paralytic ectropion; paralytic ileus; paralytic mydriasis; paralytic myoglobinuria; paralytic rabies; paralytic scoliosis; paralytic shellfish poisoning ...
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food poisoning or the inability to properly digest certain food components such as lactose or gliadin .
A true allergic reaction to a food involves two primary components: ...
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Us scientists fear that many babies are at risk of fluorosis (fluoride poisoning - first symptoms are white flecks or permanent brown or yellow stains on the teeth) from baby foods containing high fluoride-content chicken, ...
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Food poisoning has often been blamed on contaminated potato salad containing mayonnaise. The potato salad can be the source of several types of food poisoning, but it is due to improper food storage or handling, not mayonnaise.
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Staphylococcal bacteria are among the most common causes of food poisoning. Symptoms of food poisoning include nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal cramps.
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Maintain kitchen hygiene to avoid food poisoning
Minimise intake of spicy foods, fatty foods, caffeine and alcohol, particularly if these give you dyspepsia
Don't 'bolt' your food - instead, eat slowly and chew thoroughly
Don't eat late at night ...
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Indications: treatment of Wilson's disease and cystinuria; adjunctive therapy in the treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis, lead poisoning, arsenic poisoning, and primary biliary cirrhosis.
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A substance that is used in medicine as an antidote to cyanide poisoning and to decrease side effects of the anticancer drug cisplatin.
soft diet
A diet consisting of bland foods that are softened by cooking, mashing, pureeing, or blending.
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Heart (high blood pressure, heart changes, irregular heartbeat, digitalis poisoning).
Kidneys (production of too much urine, night-time urinating, sugar in the urine, excess thirst).
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SEPTICEMIA: The systemic disease associated with sepsis. Blood poisoning.
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