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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 737
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 09/23/2004 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Containers |
| PT ACCIDENTALLY SWALOWED PAINT THINNER THINKING IT WAS HIS WATER JUG AC CIDENTAL POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/19/2004 | Age: 3 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| DRANK A SMALL AMOUNT OF PAINT THINNER DX. HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/04/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| INGESTED PAINT THINNER |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 08/29/2004 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT. USED PAINT THINNER WEDS, NAUSEA SINCE THURSDAY WITH ONE EPISODE OF VOMITING FEELING DIZZY. DX. ACUTE HA, NAUSEA, DIZZINESS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/03/2004 | Age: 28 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 28 YOM STATES HE WAS EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER 3 DAYS AGO. CLAIMS HE INHALED IT. HAS HAD 2 BRIEF EPISODES OF L CHEST PAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/06/2004 | Age: 22 months | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PATIENT ACCIDENTALLY DAUSED IN PAINT THINNER 6 YR OLD BROTHER SPILLED PATIENT COVERED HEAD TO TOE WITH PAINT THINNER. DX. HYDROCARBON CON. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/30/2004 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Nonglass bottles or jars |
| ACCIDENTLY SWALLOWED PAINT THINNER THAT WAS IN AN ARROWHEAD WATER BOTTL E DX: HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/29/2004 | Age: 3 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| 3 YOM DRANK PAINT THINNER POISONING |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2004 | Age: 22 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT CAME TO THE ED AFTER INHALING PAINT THINNER FUMES TO GET HIGH- DEVEL OPED DIZZINESS HEADACHE AND DYSPNEA- INHALTION OF NOXIOUS FUMES |
| Disposition: Treated and transferred to another hospital |
| Date: 05/25/2004 | Age: 4 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Paints, varnishes or shellacs |
| PT. WAS EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER THIS WEEKEND WHILE BASEMENT WAS BEING PAINTED, PT. VOMITING. DX; PAINT THINNER EXPOSURE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/16/2004 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Dermat Or Conj |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT BROKE OUT IN RASH EXPOSED TO PAINT THINNER. DX: ALLERGIC DERMATITIS |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/08/2004 | Age: 7 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT DRANK PAINT THINNER. D: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF PAINT THINNER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2004 | Age: 23 months | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Tableware and accessories |
| PATIENT CAME TO MOM HOLDING *** CUP CONTAINING PAINT THINNER, UNSUREOF INGESTION, HAD SOME ON COAT, LIPS, HANDS; INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/30/2004 | Age: 31 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT AGITATED, HALLUCINATING, PSYCHOTIC AFTER SNIFFING PAINT THINNER. TES TS POSITIVE FOR AMPHETAMINE & THC. D: POLYSUBSTANCE ABUSE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/26/2004 | Age: 73 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT MISTAKE FOR MILK PT DRANK PAINT LACQUER THINNER DX NON TOXIC LACQUE R THINNER INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/09/2004 | Age: 44 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: Paint or varnish thinners |
| PT INHALING LACQUER THINNER STRAIGHT FOR TWO DAYS DEVELOPED SEVERE HEAD ACHE AND NAUSEA INHALATION OF TOXIC SUBSTANCE |
| Disposition: Held for observation |
| Date: 03/04/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners, Metal containers |
| INGESTION INADVERTANT OR ACCIDENTAL - 2 YOM DRANK LACQUER THINNER THATW AS IN A ***S COFFEE CAN, VOMITED 3-4 TIMES SMALL AMOUNT |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/20/2004 | Age: 5 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| SWALLOWED A MOUTHFUL OF PAINT THINNER DX: HYDROCARBON INGESTION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/09/2004 | Age: 2 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: All Of Body | Diagnosis: Poisoning |
| Product: Paint or varnish thinners |
| ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF PAINT THINNER. D: ACCIDENTAL INGESTION OF PAI NT THINNER |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
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