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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 444
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 11/16/2009 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT IS BEING SEEN FOR REACTION TO EXPOSURE OF CAR TIRE CLEANER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/10/2009 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| ACCIDENTALLY SWALLOW TIRE CLEANER DX: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/09/2009 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF *** DX: CAUSTIC CHEMICAL INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 01/28/2009 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| 37YO WHITE MALE UNRESPONSIVE - WIFE STS PT DRANK ABOUT HALF CUP OF TIRE CLEANER, DX RESPIRATORY FAILURE, OVERDOSE |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 06/30/2007 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PATIENT ACCIDENTALLY DRANK CAR DETERGENT/WAX PREPARATION FROM *** BOTTL E, C/O BURNING IN THROAT. DX-LARYNGITIS 2ND TO SOAP INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/06/2006 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT DRANK WHEEL CLEANER BY ACCIDENT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/18/2005 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT WAS WQASSHING HER CAR WHEN SHE INHALED TIRE CLEANER DEVELOPED SHORTN ESS OF BREATH AND WHEEZING CHEMICAL INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/30/2005 | Age: 33 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners, Aerosol containers |
| PT HUFFING CARBEURATOR CLEANER FROM AN AEROSOL CAN AND DEVELOPED SEVERE HEADACHE AND THROAT BURNING HUFFING INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/22/2005 | Age: 27 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| RASH, ITCHING ALL OVER AFTER USING CAR CLEANER ON CAR DX: HIVES, URTICARIA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/02/2003 | Age: 32 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT. HUFFING CARB CLEANER AND IS CONCERNED THAT HER POTASSIUM LEVEL WILL GIT TO LOW. HX. ASTHMA, DEPRESSION. HOMELESS. . DX/ HYDROCARBON INHALA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/08/2003 | Age: 49 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners, Metal containers |
| PT-INGESTED *** WHEEL CLEANER THAT WAS STORED IN A *** CANDX-ACID INGES TION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 08/03/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| PT DX ALLERGIC RXN - PT WAS WAXING HIS CAR THINKS HE IS ALLERGIC TO THE CHEMICAL HE WAS USING. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/21/2002 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Automotive waxes, polishes or cleaners |
| NEAR SYNCOPE - 46 YOM LOST CONSCIOUSNESS, HAD BEEN DRINKING BEER THROUG HOUT THE DAY WHILE WAXING CARS OUTSIDE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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