U.S. poison centers received 45,550 exposure calls related to cleaners and disinfectants from January through March, a 20.4% increase from a year ago.
A worker with CleanHarbors sprays disinfectant inside a Marin County Fire Department ambulance on April 14, 2020 in Greenbrae, California.The fear of getting the coronavirus appears to have helped drive a 20% increase in U.S. poison center calls over the last three months as more Americans suffered from potentially toxic exposure to chemicals in cleaning and disinfectant products, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.
Although the NPDS data does not provide information showing a link between exposures and the cleaning efforts due to the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 761,900 people across the United States, there appears to be a "clear temporal association with increased use of these products," U.S. health officials wrote in their findings.
That includes a preschool-age child who was found unresponsive at home and transported to an emergency room after drinking ethanol-based hand sanitizer, the CDC said. The CDC also said an adult woman developed difficulty breathing and was transported to the emergency room after hearing on the news to clean all recently purchased groceries before consuming them and then soaking her produce in a mixture of 10% bleach solution, vinegar and hot water.
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