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PubMed1994

Household bleaches based on sodium hypochlorite: review of acute toxicology and poison control center experience.

Bleaches based on solutions of sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) are widely used in the household to disinfect and clean hard surfaces and to bleach the laundry. A review of both published and unpublished toxicological data is presented. In addition, the results of a survey of human accidents with hypochlorite bleaches by the Poison Control Centers of France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal for the period 1989-1992 are presented. The data show that acute accidental exposure to household bleach in use or in foreseeable misuse situations results, in the great majority of the cases, in minor, transient adverse effects on health, with no permanent sequelae. Ingestion is the most frequent route of exposure, followed by inhalation of gases evolved by mixing sodium hypochlorite bleach with acid or alkaline products. All evidence presented confirms the normal safety profile of hypochlorite-based bleaches to be similar to that of other 'generally recognized as safe' household products.

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PubMed1983

[Prognostic factors in acute paraquat poisoning. A retrospective study of cases registered by the Poison Control Center of Paris in 1981].

Twenty years after the publication of the first cases, the intoxication with the herbicide Paraquat still has a low prognosis because of no efficient treatment. But many studies have allowed the definition of prognostic factors. Nearly, BISMUTH and als(2) demonstrated that the following criteria are significant: the oral route, the gastric lesions, the organic renal failure, the plasma-Paraquat concentration. Through a series of cases collected in 1981 at the Poison Control Center of Paris, the following prognostic factors have been studied: route of administration, sex of patient, circumstances of the poisoning, ingested volume, concentration of the solution, existence of an emetic in the commercial solution, gastric content, lesions of the upper digestive tract (mouth, oesophagus, stomach), renal impairment, hepatic failure, blood gasometry, lung function tests, plasma and urine paraquat concentrations. Forty-one cases were collected during this period, with thirty-four concerning acute Paraquat poisonings in humans. We studied twenty-seven of them caused by acute oral poisoning, with accidental circumstances in nine cases (two died) and intentional circumstances in eighteen cases (all died) (other cases concerned two ocular projections, four inhalations and one skin projection). The interest of this new investigation is the particularity of our series. Because of our recruitment (larger geographic distribution of patients, larger diversity of circumstances, of routes of administration, of ingested quantities, of treatments...). This series of cases is quite different from others previously published. This study confirms the validity of prognostic factors defined by BISMUTH and als(2). The factors, which look significant, strictly depend on the ingested quantity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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