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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 922
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National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/30/2008 | Age: 21 months | 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 |
| INGESTION OF AMMONIA. WORRIED WELL. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| 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: 12/15/2008 | Age: 73 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 |
| PT BEGAN FEELING LIGHTHEADED AFTER USING AMMONIA CLEANER IN HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| 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: 10/18/2008 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| SPLASHED AMMONIA CLEANER IN EYE FLUSHED WITH WATER C/O STILL BURNING DX- CHEMICAL EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/11/2008 | Age: 67 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bottles or jars |
| PT WAS SCREWING THE TOP OF AN AMMONIA BOTTLE ON AND THE BOTTLE RUPTURED AND SOME SPLASHED IN RIGHT EYE CHEMICAL BURNS EYE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/09/2008 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| PT TRYING 2 CLEAN UP A MESS MADE BY HER PETS WHEN SHE GRABBED BOTTLE OF AMMONIA & TOP WAS OFF & IT SPLASHED IN FACE.DX: CHEMICAL CONJUNCTIVITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2008 | Age: 2 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 |
| PT DX ACCIDENTAL INGESTION - PT SWALLOWED APPROXIMATELY A PACK OF DISINFECTANT AT HOME TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/05/2008 | Age: 59 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bathtubs or showers |
| PT CLEANING HER BATHTUB WITH AMMONIA AT HOME AND INHALED THE FUMES DEVE LOPED DIZZINESS AND NAUSEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/28/2008 | Age: 25 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 |
| PT WAS CLEAING WITH AMMONIA AND INHALED FUMES. DX; SOB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/22/2008 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Eyeball | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| EYE INJURY FROM GETTING AMMONIA IN EYE. DX-ACUTE BILATERAL CHEMICAL CONJUCTIVITIS, ACUTE RIGHT CORNEAL BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/07/2008 | Age: 61 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| 61 YO FEMALE INHALED AMONIA AND BLEACH WHILE CLEANING SOB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/09/2008 | Age: 60 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 ASTHMA EXACERBATION - S/P AFTER EXPOSURE TO AMMONIA FUMES THIS AM. PT LWBS. |
| Disposition: Left without being seen/Left against medical advice (AMA) |
| Date: 07/08/2008 | Age: 3 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 |
| PT FOUND AMONIA IN BATHROOM AND DRANK UNKNOWN AMOUNT. DX POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/07/2008 | Age: 68 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| INHALATION EXPOSURE-MIXED AMMONIA & BLEACH-INHALED FUMES-STARTED COUGHI NG-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2008 | Age: 62 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Ammonia, household, Bleaches |
| CHEMICAL INHALATION. CAUGHING & HA AFTER INHALING MIXTURE OF *** &***. LOROX. |
| 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 |
| Date: 01/16/2008 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Face | Diagnosis: Burns, Chemical |
| Product: Ammonia, household |
| WAS IN CHEMISTY CLASS AND AMMONIA SPLASHED ONTO FOREHEAD DX- BURN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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