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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 367
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/27/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| MIXED AMMONIA & BLEACH; NOW VOMITING & HAVING DIFFICULTY BREATHING. DX: INHALATION CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/17/2008 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| DIFFICULTY BREATHING AFTER INHALING FUMES FROM *** AND AMMONIA WHEN CLE ANIGN. DX. FUME INHALATION.* |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/08/2008 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PT DX TOXIC EFFECT OF CAUSTIC UNSPECIFIED - PT ACCIDENTALLY DRANK AMMONIA. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/05/2008 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| ACCIDENTLY DRANKTWO (2) OUNCES OF AMMONIA CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 11/16/2008 | Age: 26 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PT WAS CLEANING WITH AMMONIA AND DEVELOPE COUGH AND WEAKNESS REACTION T O AMMONIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/11/2008 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Mouth | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Motor vehicles or parts |
| PT GOT A BOTTLE OF AMMONIA PUT IT ON THE BACK SEAT OF CAR, AMMONIA FELL OFF SEAT ONTO FLOOR OF CAR, SPILLED OUT. DX: CHEMICAL BURN TO THROAT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2008 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| H/O ASTHMA, TODAY WHILE CLEANING WITH AMMONIA, DEVELOPED SHORTNESS OF B REATH WITH WHEEZING>>ASTHMA EXCERBATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/02/2008 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, General purpose household cleaners |
| 46 YOF WAS USING *** AND OXICLEAN TO CLEAN BATHROOM AND GOT TO COUGHING AND FELT LIGHTHEADED, ARRIVES TO ED WITH RAPID HEARTRATE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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