Poisonings and Chemical Exposures
- Pesticides
A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest including plants, rodents and insects. The use of safety equipment, such as gloves, protective clothing, respirator and ...
- Preventing poisonings in children
Children, especially toddlers, are particularly prone to poisonings given their habit of tasting everything.,Most important dangers for poisoning are pharmaceuticals (especially paracetamol), home cleaning agents, poisonous plants in the garden ...
- Rat poison contamination
The active ingredient in rat poison is brodifacoum. It is used in baits to kill rodents such as mice and rats. It is sometimes referred to as a super-warfarin, because it is longer acting than the drug Warfarin. Warfarin is used to prevent ...
Last updated: 8 November, 2009
Last reviewed: 8 November, 2009
