RT Book, Section
A1 Weerdenburg, Kirstin
A1 Finkelstein, Yaron
A2 Zaoutis, Lisa B.
A2 Chiang, Vincent W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1146123777
T1 Hazardous Household Chemicals: Hydrocarbons, Alcohols, and Caustics
T2 Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071829281
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1146123777
RD 2024/04/18
AB Young  children  are  frequently  poisoned  by  agents  that  are  attractive  and  readily  available  to  them.  The  combination  of  curiosity,  desire  to  mimic  parental  behavior  (such  as  drinking  from  a  bottle  or  can),  newly  acquired  developmental  milestones,  and  access  to  household  products,  makes  children  younger  than  6  years  particularly  vulnerable  to  hazardous  household  chemicals.  Thus,  these  substances  represent  the  third  most  common  poisoning  exposure  in  young  children.1