Poisoning from cleaners and disinfectants rose 20.4% in the U.S. over the last three months amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report published Monday.<\/p>\n
“During January-March 2020, poison centers received 45,550 exposure calls related to cleaners (28,158) and disinfectants (17,392), representing overall increases of 20.4% and 16.4% from January-March 2019 (37,822) and January-March 2018 (39,122), respectively,” it said.<\/p>\n
Although the CDC noted that the data does not show a “definite” link between exposures and coronavirus cleaning efforts, it added that “the timing of these reported exposures corresponded to increased media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of consumer shortages of cleaning and disinfection products, and the beginning of some local and state stay-at-home orders.”<\/p>\n
It also said that the daily number of calls to poison centers “increased sharply” at the beginning of March after the first coronavirus-related death reported on Feb. 29.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the increase in total calls was seen across all age groups, but exposures among children aged 5 and younger consistently represented a large percentage in the three-month study period for each year.<\/p>\n
The analysis showed that among all cleaner categories, bleaches accounted for the largest percentage of the increase with 62.1%, while nonalcohol disinfectants (36.7%) and hand sanitizers (36.7%) accounted for the largest percentages of the increase among disinfectant categories.<\/p>\n
Inhalation represented the largest percentage increase from 2019 to 2020 among all exposure routes, with an increase of 35.3% for all cleaners and an increase of 108.8% for all disinfectants.<\/p>\n
The CDC also shared two cases as an example of the types of chemical exposure calls managed by poison centers.<\/p>\n
In one case, a woman was rushed to a hospital emergency department due to difficulty breathing after soaking her groceries in a sink filled with a mixture of 10% bleach solution, vinegar and hot water. The CDC said she applied the technique after hearing on the news to clean all recently purchased groceries before consuming them.<\/p>\n
In the second case, a preschool-aged girl was found unresponsive at home and transported to the emergency department after ingesting an unknown amount of a 64-ounce bottle of ethanol-based hand sanitizer.<\/p>\n
Both patients were discharged from the hospital after treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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