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Accidents - Swimming pool chemicals - 6-15 years old - Year 2004

 



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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 808
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Accidents - Sex

Accidents - Race

Accidents - Body Parts:
All Of Body:444Face:146
Upper Trunk:7725 - 50% Body:69
Unkown:69

National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records


Date: 12/19/2004Age: 10 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FaceDiagnosis: Other
Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming
WAS SWIMMING AND RASH APPEARED ON FACE AND TRUNK....ALLERGIC REACTION , URTICARIA ? SWIMMING POOL CHEMICALS REACTION TO
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 12/05/2004Age: 8 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: 25 - 50% BodyDiagnosis: Burns, Chemical
Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming
8 YOM HAS CHEMICAL BURNS AFTER SWIMMING IN CHLORINE AT ***.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/04/2004Age: 11 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
FATHER WAS MIXING CHLORINE IN THE KITCHEN / CHILD SITTING ABOUT 10 FT. AWAY DX: CHLORINE EXPOSURE / GENERAL EVALUATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 08/04/2004Age: 10 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
FATHER WAS MIXING CHLORINE IN KITCHEN CHILD SITTING 10 FT. AWAY / COUGH DX: CHLORINE EXPOSURE / GENERAL EVALUATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/31/2004Age: 12 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: Other public propertyFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FaceDiagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools
12 YOM HAS SWELLING OF BOTH EYES FROM CHLORINE EXPOSURE IN POOL, CAUSIN G CONJUNCTIVITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/24/2004Age: 15 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Other
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
INHALED CHLORINE STICKS USED IN POOL. DX: ACUTE BRONCHOSPASM SECONDARY TO CHLORINE INHALATION.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/15/2004Age: 7 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
INHALED DUST FROM BOTTLE OF CHLORINE TABLETS AT HOME, COUGHING. DX:CH EMICAL BRONCHITIS ACUTE.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/12/2004Age: 8 yearsSex: MaleRace: Black/African American
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: Upper TrunkDiagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming
PATIENT WENT SWIMMING IN NEIGHBOR'S POOL WITH CHLORINE, DEVELOPED RASH TO TRUNK, LOWER EXTREMITY, PERINEAL; CHEMICAL DERMATITIS
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 07/07/2004Age: 8 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Containers
INHALED VAPORS FROM OPEN CONTAINER CHLORINE POOL TABLETS. CHLORINE VAPO R INHALATION
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/28/2004Age: 15 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Swimming pools
PATIENT PLACED CHLORINE TABLETS IN THE POOL , GOT SHORT OF BREATH.DX-CH EMICAL PNEUMONITIS.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/14/2004Age: 10 yearsSex: FemaleRace: White
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: FaceDiagnosis: Other
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
CHLORINE IN EYES FROM POOL. DX PERIORBITAL SWELLING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 06/13/2004Age: 7 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Not recordedFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
CHEMICAL INHALATION - PATIENT JUST PRIOR TO ARRIVAL INHALED POOL CHEMIC AL FROM CONTAINER - SUDDEN SOB AND COUGHING
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 05/20/2004Age: 8 yearsSex: MaleRace: Other
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Other
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
MOTHER STATES CHILD SMELLED CHLORINE TABLET FOR THEIR POOL 1 HR. AGO, N OW C/O DIFF. BREATHNG AND SORE THROAT.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/29/2004Age: 15 yearsSex: MaleRace: White
Location: HomeFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: All Of BodyDiagnosis: Poisoning
Product: Swimming pool chemicals
PUT CHLORINE TABLETS IN A BOTTLE OF RUBBING ALCOHOL AND BREATHED IT IN TO GET HIGH DX: CHEMICAL INDUCED DYSPNEA
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment


Date: 02/22/2004Age: 9 yearsSex: MaleRace: Not stated in ER record
Location: Place of recreation or sportsFire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded
Body part: UnkownDiagnosis: Dermat Or Conj
Product: Swimming pool chemicals, Built-in swimming pools
9 YOM DEVELOPED ALLERGIC DERMATITIS D/T CHLORINE IN SWIMMING POOL. DERM ATITIS, GENERALIZED.
Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment

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