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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 546
See also: Other age groups, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 07/01/2010 | Age: 11 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Place of recreation or sports | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Balloons |
| 11 YO F WITH RASH ON BODY. HAD BEEN PLAYING WITH WATER BALLOONS IN BUSH ES IN PARK. DX: DERMATITIS. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/23/2010 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Balloons, Chemicals |
| 14 YO F PASSED OUT INHALED HELIUM FROM BALLOON TO MAKE FUNNY NOISESDX HELIUM INHALATION*** |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2010 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Balloons, Pressurized containers |
| 9YOM- WAS SUCKING ON HELIUM THROUGH A BALLOON, SYNCOPE/SEIZURES LOC. DX ACUTE ASPHYXIA HELIUM EXPOSURE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/02/2010 | Age: 8 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: Balloons |
| 8YOM PT INHALING *** FROM A LARGE FOIL BALLOON AT HOME. CAUSED HIM TO I MMED PASS OUT. BRIEF LOC. ACTING NORMALLY. DX *** INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/17/2009 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Balloons |
| 9 Y/O M RASH AFTER PLAYING WITH LATEX BALLOONS ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/11/2009 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| SOB AFTER BLOWING UP BALLOONS DX: HYPERVENTILATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/28/2009 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | 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: Balloons |
| PT WAS @ A BIRTHDAY PARTY WAS EXPOSED TO A LATEX BALLOON NOW WITH RASH TO BODY. DX ALLERGIC REACTION RASH. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/23/2009 | Age: 13 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Balloons, Clothing accessories |
| CLASSMATES BLOWING UP LATEX BALLOONS OR GLOVES & LETTING THEM FLY THROU GH THE AIR, NOW W/HIVES & SHORTNESS OF BREATH; ALLERGIC REACTION |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 01/15/2009 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Balloons, Ceilings and walls |
| PT SUCKING HELIUM FROM BALLOON, FELL BACKWARDS, HIT HEAD ON WALL, FELL TO FLOOR & HAD SEIZURE; HELIUM INHALATION/HYPOXIA, SEIZURE, HEAD INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/19/2007 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PT HAD A BALLOON BURST AND SCARED HER AND MADE HER FALL LANDING ONTO BU TTOCKS STARTED TO HYPERVENTILATE UNABLE TO STOP |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/11/2007 | Age: 14 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: School | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Balloons |
| EXPOSED TO LATEX, BALLOONS IN THE WHOLE WAY, SHORTLY, DEVELOPED SOB C C P " ALLERGIC RXN" |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/01/2005 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| ALLERGIC REACTION.PT HAD BALLONS AROUND FACE AND HAD A REACTION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/10/2004 | Age: 8 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: Balloons, Chemicals |
| PT WALKING TO CAR AND INHALED THE HELIUM OUT OF A BALLOON, PASSED OUT,D OESN'T REMEMBER FALLING;SYNCOPE SECONDARY TO INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/17/2004 | Age: 10 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Balloons |
| @ *** SUCKING HELIUM OUT OF A BALLON TO TALK FUNNY DXPASSED OUT FROM HELIUM INHALATION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/13/2004 | Age: 8 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: Balloons |
| PT SUCKED HELIUM OUT OF A BALLOON PASSED OUT FACE DOOWN, INGESTION/AP NEA |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/23/2002 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| PATIENT HAD HEART PALPITATIONS AFTER BLOWING UP BALLOONS YESTERDAY; PAL PITATIONS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/29/2001 | Age: 8 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Anoxia |
| Product: Balloons |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/05/2000 | Age: 11 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: Balloons |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2000 | Age: 12 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Balloons |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/18/1998 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Submersion |
| Product: Balloons |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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