Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Blood
- Severe change in blood acid level (can lead to organ damage)
- Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Loss of vision
- Severe pain in the throat
- Severe pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue
- Gastrointestinal
Blood in the stool - Burns of the food pipe (esophagus)
- Severe
abdominal pain - Vomiting
Vomiting blood
- Heart and blood vessels
- Collapse
-
Low blood pressure that develops rapidly
- Lungs and airways
- Breathing difficulty (from breathing in poison)
- Throat swelling (which may also cause breathing difficulty)
- Skin
- Burns
- Holes (necrosis) in the skin or tissues underneath
- Irritation
- Nervous system
- Coma
- Headache
- Seizures
Previous Section
Review Date: 01/29/2010
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)
