On poison control website, I found many different and various poison alerts. In these many alerts I found some very interesting posion alerts that are everyday common products we use and some rare products we don’t see often but are highly poisonous and could be deathly. One of the alerts I found interesting that we use everyday are laundry detergent packets. In the provided information the website gave us, that many children will eat the detergent packets and only used to get stomach aches, but new studies show that the kids would vomit a lot, have shortness of breath or get sleepy. I never thought about how dangerous laundry detergent was until this website explained how the packets are easily obtainable and little kids eat them. The website also provided that, “In 2016, through December 31, poison centers received reports of 11,528 exposures to highly concentrated packets of laundry detergent by children 5 and younger.” I could not believe how high that number is for just five years and younger, and how it is just an everyday product we use that could harm our children.
Another interesting alert I found on poison, that hand sanitizer in big amounts can bring alcohol poisoning to the person who has exposure inside them in large amounts and will give them alcohol poisoning because hand sanitizer contains more alcohol than most alcohol beverages.
Another alert I read about was about bath salts aka synthetic cathinones are illegal drugs that have so many unknown chemicals in the bath salt mixtures causing countless side effects because they are so many different chemicals that are combined in the drug they create that anything is possible for a side effect.
Another alert is opioids are an increasing poison issue. These drugs are narcotics and bring in numerous people in emergency rooms due to the overdose level people take of them. This drug helps you feel no pain and it's becoming a more public health issue.
E-cigarettes are another poison alert because younger kids are becoming more exposed to them and getting ill or getting on their skin and damage it and bringing more kids to hospitals with these issues.
Food and mushroom poisoning and recall poison alerts are when we consume contaminated foods. Contaminated foods have like bacteria and viruses, etc. This is actually a really high poison alert because it can happen whenever because we can eat food and not know we are eating poisoned food til after.
Lastly, synthetic marijuana is another poison alert because it has unknown chemicals and is not like regular marijuana because of the mixed chemicals they do not know what's in there that cause so many different side effects.
If you have any concern for poison, there phone number is 1-800-222-1222
Current annual report 2015:
For kids under the age of 6, top three reasons kids are called in in this age group is because of cosmetic/personal care products, cleaning substances, analgesics. For people the age 20 and up their top three reasons are analgesics, sedative, and antidepressants.
Some reasons for exposure are unintentional, intentional, and adverse reaction.
Top scenarios of poison scenarios are school, workplace, and outdoors.
In 2015 poison control received 2.8 million phone calls in 2015
http://www.aapcc.org/
