Toxicity of traditional and soluble film automatic dishwashing tablets
| Autor: | John Paul Thompson, Rachael Day, Sally M Bradberry, Shl Thomas, JA Vale, Euan A Sandilands |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Poison Control Centers Adolescent Injury control Surface Properties Accident prevention Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Detergents Poison control Eye Toxicology 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Household Articles Intensive care medicine Skin business.industry Poisoning 030208 emergency & critical care medicine General Medicine Middle Aged United Kingdom Solubility Child Preschool Toxicity Powders business Soluble Film |
| Zdroj: | Human & Experimental Toxicology. 39:433-439 |
| ISSN: | 1477-0903 0960-3271 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0960327119891767 |
| Popis: | Introduction:Detergents used in automatic dishwashing machines are of two main types: traditional tablets that require removal from an external wrapper and newer soluble film tablets.Objective:To determine the toxicity of automatic dishwashing tablets.Methods:Telephone enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service were analysed for the period January 2008 to June 2019.Results:Ingestion: Ingestion was involved in 798 traditional tablet exposures and 725 soluble film exposures. Clinical features (Poisoning Severity Score ≥ 1) developed in 22.2% of patients ingesting traditional tablets and in 28.8% ingesting soluble film tablets; moderate or severe toxicity was rare (Conclusions:Children (≤5 years) significantly more often developed features following ingestion of soluble film than traditional tablets, although the likelihood of a child developing features was relatively low ( |
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