Interventions for Poisoning

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Age Cohort: 5 - 11 years
Health Promotion Disease Prevention Diagnostic Curative Rehabilitative Palliative
Community Level
  • Regulations on packaging for cleaning products and medications
  • Prevention of various forms of child accidents at home and the environment
  • Community awareness on avoidance of using harmful traditional practices in the management of poisoning
  • Awareness on disciplining adolescents and avoiding risk of harsh punishment on children
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children
  • Early recognition of the need for referral of poisonings and toxic exposures
Primary Care
  • Regulations on packaging for cleaning products and medications
  • Prevention of various forms of child accidents at home and the environment
  • Community awareness on avoidance of using harmful traditional practices in the management of poisoning
  • Awareness on disciplining adolescents and avoiding risk of harsh punishment on children
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children
  • History and physical examination for poisonings and toxic exposures
  • Early recognition of the need for referral of poisonings and toxic exposures
Referral Facility: General
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children

History and physical examination for poisonings and toxic exposures Advanced laboratory tests Antidotes and reversal medications Intravenous fluid and electrolytes Continuous vital sign monitoring

Referral Facility: Specialist
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children

History and physical examination for poisonings and toxic exposures Advanced laboratory tests Antidotes and reversal medications Intravenous fluid and electrolytes Continuous vital sign monitoring Enhanced elimination by hemoperfusion or haemodialysis Enhanced elimination by urinary alkalinization

 
Age Cohort: 25 - 59 years
Health Promotion Disease Prevention Diagnostic Curative Rehabilitative Palliative
Community Level
  • Regulations on packaging for cleaning products and medications
  • Prevention of various forms of child accidents at home and the environment
  • Community awareness on avoidance of using harmful traditional practices in the management of poisoning
  • Awareness on disciplining adolescents and avoiding risk of harsh punishment on children
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children
  • Early recognition of the need for referral of poisonings and toxic exposures
Primary Care
  • Regulations on packaging for cleaning products and medications
  • Prevention of various forms of child accidents at home and the environment
  • Community awareness on avoidance of using harmful traditional practices in the management of poisoning
  • Awareness on disciplining adolescents and avoiding risk of harsh punishment on children
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children
  • History and physical examination for poisonings and toxic exposures
  • Early recognition of the need for referral of poisonings and toxic exposures
Referral Facility: General
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children

History and physical examination for poisonings and toxic exposures Advanced laboratory tests Antidotes and reversal medications Intravenous fluid and electrolytes Continuous vital sign monitoring

Referral Facility: Specialist
  • Counselling on household safety for infants and young children
  • Keeping toxic chemicals, drugs, dangerous household instruments out of the reach of children

History and physical examination for poisonings and toxic exposures Advanced laboratory tests Antidotes and reversal medications Intravenous fluid and electrolytes Continuous vital sign monitoring Enhanced elimination by hemoperfusion or haemodialysis Enhanced elimination by urinary alkalinization