Episode Transcript
面试官: Bleach, Visine, or laundry pods. Which one of those three things is the most dangerous for your child to swallow? We'll answer that question next on 范围.
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面试官: You're listening to this podcast. Go ahead, and this is the play along at home part. I'm going to give you three substances and I want you to think. Which one do you think is the most dangerous poison if you were to ingest it: bleach, Visine, or those little pods that you use in your laundry?
Barbara Crouch is with the Utah Poison Control Center. Out of those three items, give our audience a chance to think what that would be, I would say bleach. Is that the most dangerous?
芭芭拉: It's actually the least dangerous.
面试官: 你在开玩笑吧？.
芭芭拉: 不，不，不是的. Not that I recommend a diet of bleach or swallowing it, but it is upsetting to the stomach. It can make somebody throw up. But with the household bleach that's usually the worst thing that happens.
The Visine and products like that act chemically just like a blood pressure medication, so they can dangerously lower blood pressure. Children can have difficulty breathing with that medication.
面试官: How much would it take for that to start to happen?
芭芭拉: You know, nobody really knows, right? You have a Visine bottle that you keep in your pocket, so . . .
面试官: And they're not that big.
芭芭拉: They're not that big, so we don't really have a great idea of how much it takes. I couldn't tell you what the right amount is.
面试官: But there's enough in that little bottle in some instances to cause problems.
芭芭拉: 绝对. Again, it acts just like a blood pressure medication. That's really on our list of things that are very dangerous in a dose.
面试官: 哇.
芭芭拉: So that's usually the most surprising thing in the household that's problematic. The laundry pods are new things and they're fairly dangerous as well. We're getting more information about those. They're very easy to squeeze so we've had a lot of problems with people getting it in their eye. It's very concentrated because you've got all of your laundry detergent right in one little teeny pod that's going to clean your entire laundry, so it's concentrated, 真让人恼火, 还有孩子们, when they've ingested them because they're extremely attractive, we've had children that have had effects that are far different than children swallowing a mouthful of regular laundry detergent. We've had children that have had difficulty breathing, that have had to have support for breathing with tubes and ventilator kind of things. Those are things that are relatively new the last couple years that we're watching, but we tend to see much more severe effects than what we typically expect with laundry detergent.
面试官: So out of those three things, you should always call Poison Control, even if it's bleach.
芭芭拉: 绝对.
面试官: Make that phone call.
芭芭拉: 1-800-222-1222 is the Poison Center phone number.
面试官: And an expert can help you out.
芭芭拉: 24 hours a day, and it's free and confidential.
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