Pipe dredging powder is mistakenly eaten as powdered sugar
Really dangerous!
Xiao Xin (pseudonym), 1 year old and 5 months old in Changsha, mistakenly ate the pipe dredging powder as powdered sugar, and his lips were burned and was urgently sent to the Pediatric Gastroenterological Neurology Department of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, fortunately, the child's esophagus and gastric mucosa were not damaged, and he was discharged from the hospital on March 15 after treatment. Yuan Zijie, deputy chief physician of the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Neurology of Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, reminded that children with children at home should properly keep drugs, disinfectants and other items to prevent children from accidentally eating and causing harm.
The doctor checks Xiaoxin's condition.
According to XiaoXin's mother, when Xiaoxin was playing with her cousin at her aunt's house, she did not know how to turn over a bottle of pipe dredging powder hidden in the cabinet, and ate it as powdered sugar, and at that time, her lower lips were bruised and she cried and was uneasy. The parents found a little white powder on the lips of Xiaoxin, rinsed with water, and did not see any relief before being sent to the hospital for treatment.
When XiaoXin was admitted to the hospital, her lower lip, tongue and oral mucosa were obviously eroded.
At the time of admission
Xiaoxin's lower lip, tongue and oral mucosa are eroded
Consider the pipe dredging powder
It is a highly corrosive alkaline substance
Easy to cause damage to the esophagus and gastric mucosa
It can lead to stomach ulcers and even perforations
The doctor immediately did a gastroscopy for Xiaoxin
Fortunately, Xiao Xin's esophageal gastric mucosa was not significantly damaged. After a period of treatment, on March 15, Xiaoxin was discharged from the hospital and went home.
Pipe dredging powder is a kind of chemical cleaning products, with strong corrosiveness, adults accidentally contact with the skin will produce tingling and other discomfort, after taking more harm, can cause oral, esophageal, stomach damage, great harm to human health.
Yuan Zijie reminded that in daily life, parents should be more careful to prevent accidents:
Properly store medicines, pesticides, pesticides, disinfectants and other items at home, be sure to lock up or place in places that are out of the reach of children, do not put these items in the beverage bottle, so as not to be mistakenly taken by the child as a drink;
Some commonly used drugs or potentially dangerous materials can be held in containers with press-screw caps, which prevent children from opening them at will while adults can easily open them;
Teach your child to correctly identify drugs and poisons and not to eat indiscriminately.
If the child has taken it by mistake
What should parents do?
Yuan Zijie said that parents should maintain calm, patiently induce children to spit out unspent foreign bodies in the mouth or use their fingers to pull them out, and do not loudly rebuke children, so as not to swallow more poisons due to fright or excessive nervousness;
Understand the dosage and nature of the poison mistakenly taken, for the poison of non-strong acid and strong alkali, you can encourage children who can cooperate with the vomiting, for strong acid and strong alkali poisons, it is strictly forbidden for parents to feed water, rinse and induce vomiting, so as not to cause secondary damage to the mucosa of the mouth and esophagus, and can first feed egg white, milk or vegetable oil for emergency treatment;
Remember the name of the poison, it is best to save the original solution and original packaging of the poison in time to seek medical treatment, so that the medical staff can understand the poison at the first time and develop the best detoxification plan.
Author: Yang Yunlong, Liu Yuming