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LYE. 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 (white of egg) water. The oil

should be used last.



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