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Who can do first aid in case of poisoning with household cleaners
- Despite the previous steps – which people are supposed to learn until health representatives arrive, which is a few people can learn and do, first aid steps the local property of your country’s or health care providers.
- By calling the emergency, as well contacting the poison center in order to save the person exposed to poisoning as soon as possible.
Risk factors for chemical detergent poisoning
When an adult is poisoned by detergents either at home or work, it is usually due to not following the correct instructions in using this product.
Also, dealing with detergents for long and consecutive periods could put the person at risk of poisoning.
Also, some may not realize how powerful the chemical cleaner they use in opening windows for ventilation is also strong. They end up inhaling a large amount of these incendiary substances.
As for children, they are the vulnerable one group to poisoning with household cleaners, because they may try to eat or drink any kind of detergent, of course without knowing its danger.
Children under the age of six might miss brightly colored liquids, beautifully cratesken, as well as solid soaps with attractive shapes for drinks and sweets.
So they usually swallow the following products:
- Detergents that are used for washing dishes.
- Cologne and perfume.
- As well as bathroom cleaners.
- Candida.
- Tissue softeners.
- As well as simple liquid soap.
Poison control centres receive many over incidents of poisoning children. Of these, 76% were accidents due to liquid detergents, compared to 27% accidents in other forms of detergents. Centers usually counsel parents to keep detergent as out of the reach of children as possible.
Methods of preventing poisoning with chemical detergents
- Always take great care storage when household cleaners, soaps and other substances that children may swallow.
- Also, always keep windows open for cleaning, and take breaks during the cleaning process, in order to avoid staying in contact with chemical cleaners for long periods.
- Soaps, cleaning products, dishwashing products, clothes etc., must be well sealed and placed in sealed places as well. Most of these products are in very attractive colors and shapes for children, but of course they are very dangerous.
- Most accidents occur when adults forget detergent products after the cleaning process and do not return them to their place after cleaning is finished.
- Empty containers should also be disposed of quickly in the garbage, and not forgotten in places where children can reach.
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