TY - JOUR PY - 1998// TI - Airway edema following household bleach ingestion JO - American journal of emergency medicine A1 - Babl, Franz E. A1 - Kharsch, S. A1 - Woolf, A. SP - 514 EP - 516 VL - 16 IS - 5 N2 - Household bleach is a frequent nonpharmaceutical childhood ingestion in the US. It is regarded as a benign ingestion. A rare presentation is reported of poisoning by low-concentration hypochlorite household bleach in a toddler that led to severe respiratory sequelae. The literature on respiratory and nonrespiratory sequelae of liquid household bleach ingestion is reviewed.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0735-6757 UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -