Tag: poisonings
Be careful, these 4 everyday products are the cause of the most common childhood poisonings
News Published on 05/06/2024 at 3:59 p.m. Updated 05/06/2024 at 3:59 p.m. Reading 3 min. in collaboration with Dr Gérald Kierzek (Medical Director of Doctissimo) The national health safety agency…
Used against bedbugs, this insecticide is responsible for 206 poisonings
News Published on 05/12/2023 at 1:20 p.m. Updated 05/12/2023 at 1:20 p.m. Reading 2 min. Health authorities are warning about an insecticide used against bedbugs and cockroaches even though it…
Brant County Health Unit issues alert after spike in opioid-related poisonings
The Brant County Health Unit has issued a public safety alert after an increase in suspected opioid-related drug poisonings, including five deaths. Article content From Nov. 1 to 27, there…
Gout: too many serious colchicine poisonings, here is the new dosage to follow
Due to too many overdoses and intoxications, the Medicines Agency has decided to reduce the dosage of colchicine-based treatments, indicated to prevent or treat gout. Because of too manycolchicine poisoningan…
Fluoroquinolones: an association denounces “six million poisonings in France in four years”
News Published on 03/13/2023 at 5:34 p.m. Updated 03/13/2023 at 5:34 p.m. Reading 2 mins. in collaboration with Dr Gérald Kierzek (Medical Director of Doctissimo) Medical validation: March 23, 2023…
Carbon monoxide: poisonings are on the rise
News Published on 02/13/2023 at 2:37 p.m. Updated 02/13/2023 at 2:37 p.m. Reading 2 mins. In the small town of Tincques, located in Pas-de-Calais, the faithful were poisoned by carbon…
Gasoline siphoning: poisonings exploded in October
News Published on 10/31/2022 at 1:02 p.m. Updated 10/31/2022 at 1:02 p.m. Reading 2 mins. During the gasoline shortage, siphoning took on such an extent that ANSES had to publish…
Melatonin poisonings have jumped 530% in 10 years among children!
During the Covid-19 pandemic, some of us had trouble falling asleep and turned to melatonin supplements to help. As a result, confined children have found themselves exposed to these products…
Melatonin poisonings have increased by 530% in ten years in children
During the Covid-19 pandemic, some of us had trouble falling asleep and turned to melatonin supplements to help. As a result, confined children have found themselves exposed to these products…
E.coli bacteria: 75 poisonings in France, symptoms, treatments
ESCHERICHIA COLI. The bacterium Escherichia coli or E.Coli could have contaminated Buitoni frozen pizzas and be responsible for 75 serious food poisonings in children in France since the beginning of…