Friday, February, 10, 2012

Furniture polish

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Symptoms
  • 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 (may be bloody)
  • Heart and blood vessels
    • Collapse
    • Low blood pressure that develops rapidly
  • Lungs and airways
    • Breathing difficulty (from breathing in furniture polish)
    • Throat swelling (may also cause breathing difficulty)
  • Skin
    • Burns
    • Irritation

Review Date: 02/01/2010
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)