What are the symptoms of tablet poisoning? What is the first aid to the patient? How to avoid poisoning? What consequences can be? All this we will tell in our article.
Symptoms of poisoning with tablets
Symptoms associated with such poisoning depend on what kind of drugs were taken.
If a person is poisoned with sleeping pills, then there is a deep inhibition of the entire central nervous system, and sleep becomes unconscious. The patient's breathing becomes superficial, rare, sometimes wheezing.
When a drug is poisoned, the patient becomes weak, drowsy, and pale. There may be nausea, vomiting, dizziness, cyanotic lips, narrowing of the eyes, uneven breathing, as well as sleep and unconsciousness.
If the poisoning has occurred from antipyretic or analgesic agents, then there are malfunctions of the processes of inhibition and excitation of the vCNC, capillaries expand and the heat release of the body increases. The patient feels weakness, drowsiness, passing into a dream or unconscious condition. Potentious poisoning can stop breathing and circulation.
First aid
In any case, before the doctor arrives, the patient needs to rinse the stomach in an orderly fashion, causing vomiting. To do this, he must drink 3 cups of water with dry mustard or salt (2 tsp per glass). After washing, give activated carbon in the proportion of 2-4 tablespoons. for 100-200 ml of water. In this case, if in the medicine cabinet there is only activated charcoal in tablets, then first grind it.
A dose of 10 g is able to neutralize the deadly dose-aspirin or sleeping pill. Those who are poisoned with sleeping pills or soothing substances, you can give a drink of tea - it contains exciting substances.
It is very important to determine which drug the person has poisoned. This will help to develop the correct treatment tactics and make a forecast of possible side effects.
Treatment is usually based on symptoms. Appointed drugs for the reverse action, as well as drugs aimed at maintaining the liver. For example, with an overdose of a pressure-lowering medicine, prescribe a means that stimulate the work of the heart.
How to avoidexpression?
To minimize the likelihood of poisoning with tablets, follow these simple rules:
- take different pills not all at once, but separately;
- never use expired pills;
- be sure to read the annotation to the medicines and follow the doctor's recommendations;
- if different doctors have appointed you different drugs, then visit the therapist to check them for compatibility. In the case of what, the drug can be replaced by any safe analog;
- Do not store medicines in the bathroom, do not freeze liquid medication.
What consequences can there be?
Overdosing with pills is a fairly common occurrence. To poison yourself, it is enough to drink a dose exceeding the norm by 10 times. And for a child and an elderly person this figure is half that.
Some drugs may increase the symptoms of many diseases, which often result in disability or death. The manifestation even has its own name - "medicinal disease." Quite often this happens because of a medical error. For example, instead of removing the cause of pain in the back, a simple analgesic is prescribed. A person leaves a feeling of pain, and assuming himself to be completely healthy, he gives a backache more stress. As a result - compression of the vertebra or herniation of the intervertebral disc.
Do not forget that long-term use of any medicinal products, herbs, including, can lead to accumulation of difficult-to-extract toxic elements. Also worth noting is the fact that different groups of drugs have their own individual serious side effects.