The Poison Post

 National Capital Poison Center                                                                                    July 2013 Edition

gasoline Gasoline and Kids    

For many reasons, kids and gasoline don't mix.  Now is the time for special care: children get into gasoline most often in the summertime.  Pumping gas into your car? Be sure the kids stay inside the vehicle. Lots of children get gas on their skin and in their eyes; it needs to be washed off right away...

diet supplements Contaminated Weight Loss Supplements    

Some "weight loss" supplements can damage your health along with your wallet.  And, they rarely help you lose weight.  In recent years, many tainted weight loss products have been sold in the U.S.  Hidden ingredients have included stimulants, antidepressants, diuretics, seizure medicines, and laxatives...

cigarette "My child ate a cigarette!" 

In the U.S., an estimated 43.8 million people smoke cigarettes. This is about 19% of all adults 18 years or older. Because cigarette use is so common among adults, children can often reach cigarettes. Infants and children are naturally curious, touching and tasting just about everything - including tobacco...

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lead News About Lead for Pregnant Women  

For thousands of years, we've known that lead is harmful.  Pregnant women with high lead levels can pass lead to their unborn children. (Lead also can be passed to children in breast milk.) Now, there are guidelines for when pregnant women should be tested for high lead levels.  Read on...  

shipwreck Ancient Shipwreck, Modern Medicine     

If you haven't cleaned out your medicine cabinet for a while, you might find some old, old medicines hiding there. But they wouldn't be older than the medicines found at the bottom of the sea, off the coast of Italy. A 2,000-year-old shipwreck found in the 1980s contained six tablets in an airtight tin container...  

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