Carbon Monoxide: Keep It Out Of Your Home
If you could prevent a thief from sneaking into your home, you’d do it, wouldn’t you? Well, there is a thief that can silently show up and steal your health and life, and you can prevent it. The sneak thief…
National Poison Prevention Week
National Poison Prevention Week (NPPW), the third week in March each year, is a week nationally designated to highlight the dangers of poisonings and how to prevent them. Use NPPW as a time to raise awareness in your community about…
E-Cigarette Devices and Liquid Nicotine
Electronic Vapor E-Cigarette Devices Be aware and take care! Unfortunately, the vaping craze has reached the toddler set, according to the Missouri Poison Center call statistics. The adult market for smokeless e-cigarette devices that vaporize a nicotine-laced liquid has been…
Save our Number, Save Lives
1-800-222-1222 Attention parents and caregivers: be prepared in case of an emergency. Program 1-800-222-1222, the Poison Help phone number, into your mobile device. The number will automatically connect you to your local poison center when it is dialed anywhere in the…
Poison Safety For Your Home
In honor of Poison Prevention Week, the Missouri Poison Center has received many terrific posters created by kindergarten through 4th grade students. The posters all teach about poison prevention and keeping their families safe from poisoning. Help is a phone…
Why Call The Poison Center
All things are poison. It is only the dose that differentiates a poison from a remedy.” - Paracelsus (1493-1541) Yes, but what’s the crucial dose? The Specialists in Poison Information at the Missouri Poison Center are ready to figure that out.…
Perils of Physostigmine
Classic Anticholinergic Toxidrome Hot as Hades (hyperthermia) Red as a beet (cutaneous flushing) Blind as a bat (mydriasis and loss of accommodation) Dry as a bone (reduced sweating and secretions) Mad as a hen (delirium and hallucinations) Does this describe…
Nicotine – Acute Toxic Hazard in E-Cigarettes
Acute nicotine toxicity in children is on the rise due to the increase in “vaping” with electronic cigarettes by adults. E-cigarettes utilize nicotine and flavoring dissolved in a solution of propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, and/or vegetable glycerin. When a small…
High-dose Insulin Euglycemic Therapy (HIET)
High-dose Insulin Euglycemic Therapy (HIET) is an advanced first-line treatment for life-threatening Calcium Channel Blocker (CCB) overdose. Its use has also proven efficacious in severe Beta Blocker (BB) poisoning, as well as combined exposure to both agents. HIET restores cardiac…
Repel the Pests . . . Don’t Poison Your People
Summertime and warm weather invite stinging, biting ,and buzzing insects to come back to life. Store shelves are stocked with bug repellents of all sorts: sprays, solids, lotions, and even products that smoke when burned. We’re all shopping for the…
