Sentences with word «ipecac»

Induce vomiting only if instructed to, administering syrup of ipecac in dose recommended.

Starting in the 1960s, all parents were urged to keep a bottle of syrup of ipecac in their medicine chest to induce vomiting and empty their child's stomach of ingested poisonous substances.

Long before Portuguese explorers arrived in Brazil, the indigenous people used ipecac, a dried root, to treat diarrhea.

These are tortuous strips of celluloid that collectively have a better use as ipecac than entertainment.

When I was raising my older set of kids, the advice given many times by poison control experts and physicians was to have a bottle of ipecac on hand to induce vomiting to get the poison out of the child's system.

It is also important to keep ipecac syrup in your home in the event of your baby or child ingests something poisonous.

The concoction worked, and Helvétius was richly rewarded in exchange for divulging his secret ipecac - containing formula.

It turns out that, while ipecac effectively provokes vomiting within 20 — 30 minutes, it does more harm than good when corrosive chemicals are ingested or when individuals are experiencing seizures or are not fully conscious.

Unlike ipecac syrup or stomach pumping, activated charcoal binds with and removes much of the offending substance even after it enters the bloodstream.

It is an ice cream sundae laced with ipecac, delectable and poisonous all at once.

In a smaller local show, they tried to make a lost point about our soldier - a-day situation in the Mideast by upchucking red, white, and blue ipecac when the President showed up for a campaign stop.

To empty your pet's stomach, a peroxide or ipecac solution will be given by mouth, which should induce vomiting.

Engagement in all prevention practices, except having syrup of ipecac in the home, were less likely if the mother reported high levels of depressive symptoms at both time points versus a single time point.

Mothers reporting a high level of depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale score ≥ 16) reported significantly poorer prevention practices for car seat use, covering electrical plugs, and having syrup of ipecac in the home.

The veterinarian can induce vomiting by giving your pet an emetic, such as ipecac or hydrogen peroxide.

I was instructed by poison control to have Kwyn take some syrup of ipecac.

Experts used to tell parents to keep either syrup of ipecac or activated charcoal on hand for poisoning emergencies.

Experts used to tell parents to keep either syrup of ipecac or activated charcoal on hand in case of a poisoning emergency.

If you have ipecac in your home, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that you dispose of it immediately and safely.

If you have ipecac in your home, the AAP recommends that you dispose of it immediately and safely.

At one point, Helen asks if «what we hold in our hands can be the same as what we hold in our hearts» (the clunkiest line in a movie where every line feels like a low dose of ipecac), and that's a question Will has to deal with on a daily basis.

So instead of changing the storylines, they recycle them and blow up the characters until they are so oversized and obnoxious that we need an ipecac to dislodge them from our systems.

A complete first - aid kit should include a rectal thermometer, gauze bandages, scissors, bandaging tape, tweezers, antibiotic ointment, a needleless syringe for liquid medication, cotton swabs and cotton balls, hydrogen peroxide or syrup of ipecac to induce vomiting, and activated charcoal tablets to absorb poisons.

Vomiting can be induced with a teaspoon of peroxide if you don't have ipecac.

Use hydrogen peroxide (three percent solution) or syrup of ipecac to induce vomiting if Rascal ingests pesticides containing arsenic, carbamates, metaldehyde, or organophosphates; drugs containing aspirin or acetominophen; antifreeze; or products containing lead, phenol, strychnine, Vitamin D3, or Warfarin.

Vomiting may be induced with apomorphine, ipecac, or hydrogen peroxide.

Syrup of ipecac is no longer recommended for animals or for people due to the nasty side effects that it can cause.

The reason is that syrup of ipecac is stronger and less effective.

Hydrogen peroxide is recommended over Syrup of ipecac.

This can be accomplished by orally administering syrup of ipecac or about four ounces of hydrogen peroxide.

The internet is abundant with recommendations for using hydrogen peroxide, ipecac syrup or salt as a means of causing an animal to vomit, thereby removing the toxic or dangerous substance he or she has ingested.

Keep some 3 percent hydrogen peroxide or ipecac syrup in your medicine chest and tell the emergency folks which one you have so they can coach you on how to use it correctly.

For many of these items — such as the anti-diarrheal agent, laxative or syrup of ipecac — it's important to get advice from a vet before giving them to your dog.

Though the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) once recommended the use of ipecac (an emetic that induces vomiting) after a child had ingested a chemical poison, the AAP now recommends against using it.

More recent evidence, according to the AAP, suggests that ipecac is not only ineffective as a remedy but that its use can interfere with the effectiveness of other remedies for poison ingestion.

To assess the relationship between maternal depression and 4 parent - based prevention practices (use of car seats and electrical plug covers, presence of syrup of ipecac in the home, and reading to their child), using a large nationally representative follow - back sample.

A diet of syrup of ipecac, perhaps; Tender Vittles, probably not.