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Article: Warn parents: often missed home toxins.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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SAN DIEGO -- Pediatricians should be on the lookout for patients who have ingested one of many common household substances that parents may not realize are potentially lethal, Dr. Angela Anderson said at a meeting sponsored by the Los Angeles Pediatric Society.
These substances range from salicylate preparations, such as Pepto-Bismol, Ben Gay ointment, and oil of wintergreen flavoring, to lamp oil, bug repellant, lighter fluid and other fuels, air freshener, spray deodorant, hair spray, cooking spray, and ethanol, said Dr. Anderson, an attending physician and toxicologist at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, R.I.
Given that "children will eat ...