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POTASH, CAUSTIC. Symptoms

Categories: Accidents, Emergencies and Poisons

Intense inflammation of the stomach and
bowels, often with bloody vomiting and purging; lips and tongue swollen;

violent difficulty in breathing; characteristic odor.



Antidotes. Lemon juice and water, vinegar and water half and half.



Treatment. Milk, soothing drinks; sweet oil or castor oil, bland drinks

like flaxseed tea, slippery elm, albumen water, white of egg water. The

oil should be used last.



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