A Pediatric Tox Talk: All Pearls, No Pathways
When you know the ingestion, you know what to do: call poison control and get your fill of all the metabolic pathways you can handle. But what if the ingestion is unknown? Hopefully this will help you keep a few common — and some not-so-common — ingestions in mind for the next time a kid comes in sick and altered.
Full disclourse: I am not a toxicologist, so this is going to be mostly clinical.
Refrences
A Bitter Pill: Ingestions Where One Pill Can Kill or Make Ill