Caustic soda ingestion in children under-5 years presenting for fluoroscopic examinations in an Academic Hospital in Ghana
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- 作者：Benard Ohene Botwe ; Samuel Anim-Sampong ; Benjamin Dabo Sarkodie…
- 关键词：Caustic soda ; Children below five ; Influencing factors
- 刊名：BMC Research Notes
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：8
- 期：1
- 全文大小：909 KB
- 刊物主题：Biomedicine general; Medicine/Public Health, general; Life Sciences, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1756-0500
文摘
Background Disastrous effects and lifelong complications, ranging from respiratory and gastrointestinal burns to death can result from caustic soda ingestion. Accidental and non-accidental ingestions occur in different age groups. However, it is very troubling to find ingestion of caustic soda a very common occurrence among children below 5 years since they do not have the developmental level required to independently weigh up risks and are also under parental and societal protections. This study was therefore planned to investigate the ingestions of caustic soda by these children for purposes of proposing measures to curb the problem.