How to give first aid after ingesting desiccant

After ingesting desiccant, you should drink warm water, milk, egg whites and other foods immediately, and then go to the hospital immediately for a check-up to prevent further trouble. It is also important to throw away the desiccant in time to prevent unnecessary trouble.

1. First aid methods after ingesting desiccant.

There are generally four types of desiccant on the market, including silica gel desiccant, ferric oxide desiccant, calcium chloride desiccant, and calcium oxide desiccant. Among them, silica gel desiccant is non-toxic and does not need to do any treatment. While ferric oxide desiccant and calcium chloride desiccant only need to be diluted by drinking water.

However, calcium oxide desiccant should be specially treated, calcium oxide is actually commonly known as quicklime, and it also needs to be diluted with water, but it will be strongly alkaline and corrosive after dilution, and it is necessary to drink milk to protect the gastric mucosa, do not induce vomiting, and should be immediately sent to the emergency department of the hospital for the next step of rescue and **.

Desiccant has the effect of removing moisture and moisture, if you eat desiccant by mistake, it is recommended to drink more warm water, milk, egg white and other foods in time, which can avoid burning the digestive tract and can play a role in protecting the mucosa of the digestive tract.

Second, the description of desiccant.

Desiccant is a kind of desiccant that is placed in food packaging bags to prevent food corrosion or some foods use desiccant to keep them fresh. Desiccant is something that should never be eaten because it is a chemical used to maintain the main function of food.

For adults, the possibility of accidental ingestion is almost none, but for small children in the case of unsupervised is likely to be ingested, if not treated in time will cause very serious consequences, for the process of treatment is mainly solved by drinking more warm water, which is a method of first aid. However, it is best to go to the hospital for examination, go to the hospital in time to deal with it, and in serious cases, you also need to use gastric lavage, so as to have the safest effect. Finally, it must be thrown away in time to prevent children from eating by mistake, which will achieve immeasurable consequences, and must pay attention to it!

It mainly causes symptoms such as acute gastric mucosal damage and indigestion. Ingestion of different types of desiccant may cause different symptoms. If you mistakenly eat quicklime desiccant, it may cause acute gastric mucosal lesions, quicklime has a strong corrosiveness, nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, abdominal pain, abdominal discomfort and other acute gastric mucosal lesions, it is recommended to immediately drink water to dilute gastric juice or drink milk to strengthen the protection of the mucosa of the digestive tract, reduce the corrosive effect, and go to a regular hospital as soon as possible.

If it is a silica gel desiccant, it is granular, and there may be indigestion and difficulty in defecation, and other types of desiccant, which are all chemical substances, are very corrosive and toxic, and should be avoided.

After accidentally ingesting the desiccant, I think I should go to the hospital for gastric lavage if it is serious.

If you accidentally eat it, you can drink water or milk immediately.

However, it is necessary to control the amount of drinking, take 10 ml per kilogram of body weight, and the total amount should not exceed 200 ml.

There has been news that a child accidentally ingested desiccant and burned his throat, so how to take first aid measures if he accidentally ingested desiccant? See below.

01 There are three kinds of food desiccant: quicklime desiccant, montmorillonite desiccant, and silica gel desiccant, and there is a risk of burning the throat when ingesting desiccant by mistake.

02 When you accidentally eat quicklime desiccant, you should drink milk immediately, milk can dilute quicklime, otherwise it will burn your throat, and you will feel pain after drinking milk, so you should seek medical attention immediately.

03 The material of montmorillonite desiccant is montmorillonite, this material has no effect on the human body, it will be discharged with the excrement of the human body, don't worry, 04 silica gel desiccant has two kinds of white and blue, white silica gel will not produce adverse reactions to the human body, can be excreted from the body, and the blue is toxic, accidentally eat the blue silica gel desiccant, you can pick your throat with your hands, spit it out, and if you can't spit it out, you should seek medical attention immediately.

The most common desiccant are: quicklime desiccant, montmorillonite desiccant, silica gel desiccant, among which quicklime desiccant is cheap and has good water absorption, which is especially common in children's puffed food, seaweed, dried meat and other food packaging.

When ingesting quicklime desiccant by mistake, it can be diluted with milk, and children generally take it at 10 ml per kilogram of body weight, and the total amount is appropriate, so as to avoid vomiting and reflux burning the esophagus. Do not use vinegar and acid, as the neutralization process releases a large amount of heat and can aggravate the damage.

When the silica gel desiccant is ingested, a small amount of silica gel desiccant will not cause harm to the human body and will not be absorbed by the stomach and intestines, so it can not be treated, unless it causes vomiting. However, if you accidentally ingest blue silica gel desiccant, you should seek medical attention immediately.

When ingested montmorillonite desiccant by mistake, it is non-toxic and harmless, so there is no need to worry about causing harm.

I hope it can help you, if you eat it by mistake, the best way is to go to the hospital as soon as possible.