• Airways and lungs
  • Breathing may stop
  • Rapid breathing
  • Shallow breathing
• Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
  • Eye irritation
  • Loss of vision
  • Ringing in the ears
  • Throat swelling
• Kidneys
  • Kidney failure
• Nervous system
  • Collapse (from swallowing substance)
  • Convulsions (from swallowing substance)
  • Dizziness
  • Drowsiness
  • Fever (from swallowing substance)
  • Hallucinations
  • Hyperactivity
• Skin
  • Rash (usually an allergic reaction)
  • Mild burn (in extremely high doses)
• Stomach and intestines
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting, possibly with blood

Images

Wart (close-up)

Warts, flat on the cheek and neck

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Review Date: 10/01/2009
Reviewed By: Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)