Nghe An: Emergency treatment for a nearly 3-year-old child who accidentally drank rat poison

Accordingly, at dawn on December 22, the patient was transferred to the emergency room from Yen Thanh District General Hospital.Nghe An Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospitalwith symptoms of coma and convulsions, agitation.

According to the family, at around 5:00 p.m. on December 21, the child mistakenly drank rat poison (red in small plastic bottles, originating from China).

After discovering the discovery, the family urgently took the child to the District General Hospital, performed emergency gastric lavage and intravenous fluids. However, the child's poisoning was still very severe, with convulsions, coma, cyanosis, and arrhythmia. The diagnosis was rat poison poisoning.

Doctors actively treated and saved the life of a child who accidentally drank rat poison. Photo: Hoang Yen

As of this morning, December 30, after 8 days of treatment, the baby's health is still weak and is being closely monitored by the hospital.

According to doctors from the Intensive Care and Anti-Poison Department of Nghe An Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital, there have been many cases of children being hospitalized in critical condition due to accidentally ingesting chemicals such as rat poison or pesticides. Poisoning accidents often occur in children under 6 years old. Children at this age are naturally curious and explore the world around them, often putting everything in their mouths, eating or drinking anything regardless of taste, especially things that look attractive or have bright colors that are available everywhere in the family.

Rat poisonChina contains Sodium Fluoroacetate, an extremely toxic substance that can cause heart failure, severe arrhythmia, coma and convulsions... If not treated promptly, it can cause immediate death./.