Poisoning by household products
Lambert, H.; Manel, J.; Gabrion, I.
La Revue du Praticien 50(4): 365-371
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-2640 PMID: 10748666 Document Number: 518234
Caustic products are responsible for the most serious cases of poisoning, which are always emergency cases. Application of current intervention procedures has decreased both morbidity and mortality. Water-diluted bleach, the ingestion of which remains extremely frequent, is a moderate irritant rather than a caustic product. Emission of gas produced when mixing bleach with other agents can be responsible for choking gas poisoning. Anionic and nonionic detergents are mostly dangerous because of their foam-producing properties. Mercury vapours and methanol are other potentially hazardous products.