Poisoning and Accidents (Related to child)

1. When children's start crawling and walking near about 1st year, so children's become every active and they try to take every object by mouth. This is the main reason for accidental poisoning. In children's accidental poisoning occur in between 2 year is near about 50% and 20% occur in 1 year of life.
    
2.  In large families mother is busy in house work and she is careless in storage of poisonous household substance.
    
3.  The other problem is space in small house there is a little storage facility. So poisonous substance stored in accessible place so in such criteria there is high risk of poisoning.
    
4. In some cases insecticides, medicines, naphthalene balls and kerosenes are common things lead to poisoning. When children's stay near workshop for repair of old automobile lead batteries or manufacture of lead typesets for printing press in such case children's suffer from lead poisoning.
    
5. In rural or urban areas poisoning varies due to exposures to different types of potential poison.
    
6. If patterns of medicine and insecticides are change new chemicals are being developed and this is also one cause of poisoning.

• Emergency treatment
• Take history and from information of parent determine what, when and how much of poison was ingested or inhaled in such way identify poison.
• After identifying poison first remove poison from children's. Remove poison from skin by washing in case of insecticides. In case of other poison induce vomiting and are largely eliminated, this treatment done in case of kerosone poisoning.
• 4.Antidotes a) Chemical b) Physiological
• Promotion of excretion
  a) Increase fluid intake
  b) Promote diluresis
  6. Dialysis
  a) Exchange transfusion
  b) Peritoneal dialysis
  c) Hemodialysis
•  Supportive treatment
  i) Respiration
  ii) Cardiac
  iii) Fluid and electrolytes
  iv) Treatment of anemia
  v) Nervous system
  vi) Renal failure
  vii) Infections
  viii) fever
  ix) Nursing
• Prevention of poisoning