According to MSc Bui Tien Cong, Emergency and Poison Control Department, National Hospital of Pediatrics, recently, the unit receiving two children was taken to the hospital in a state.
According to family members of the child, the baby has a cough, so the family uses chives to cook porridge for children, but the wrong flower leaves.The family discovered confusion when two children appeared symptoms of abdominal pain, constant vomiting.
Pediatric patients are hospitalized monitoring survival functions, and are eliminated toxins from the body by gastric lavage combined with using activated carbon to absorb toxins and laxatives.
Flower leaves and chives are almost the same (Photo: BVCC).
Children are also compensated for water, electrolytes and tests to assess liver, kidney and heart function.After a day of positive intervention, the two patients stabilized, had just been discharged from the hospital.
Dr. Cong said that the flower flower has a yellow, white and pink lilies with six wings, the center is pistil.Thuy Tien flower has tubers like onions, leaves like garlic leaves but more thin.
All parts of the flower tree are poisonous, especially tubers.In the composition of the tree containing lycorine, inhibit the cholinesterase enzyme, causing symptoms such as vomiting, nausea, sweating, slow heartbeat.
If you accidentally eat a fairy flower in large quantities that can cause convulsions, circulating, respiratory and coma.Besides, the root of the narcissus flower contains oxalate ingredients, swallowing can cause burns and irritation of the lip mucosa, tongue and throat.
The doctor warned that some other plants such as Kim Tien, potato water can also cause burns, irritation of the mouth and throat when children eat wrong.
Therefore, with family plants, adults must learn carefully and prevent the risk of child eating wrong to ensure safety for children.Avoid planting or displaying poisonous plants in places where young children, must be out of reach of children.
In the case of children unfortunately eating water or poisonous plants, parents do not arbitrarily hook their throat to vomit children;It is necessary to take the child to the nearest medical facility for timely examination and treatment.