However, before using ipecac syrup, call a poison control center, your doctor, or an emergency room for advice. All rights reserved. Information is for End User's use only and may not be sold, redistributed or otherwise used for commercial purposes. Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products.
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For example, too much salt caused sodium poisoning, seizures and even death. Gagging someone often caused throat bleeding and swelling. Also, these home remedies were never reliable enough to be used to treat poisoning.
And complicated charts about what remedy went with what poisoning were confusing. Small brown bottles of ipecac syrup seemed to solve these problems. When given to children or adults, ipecac made most of them throw up within minutes. What we know now: It turns out that a big piece of the picture was missing. Yes, ipecac made people throw up, whether or not they swallowed poison.
But did throwing up keep them from actually getting sick from the poison? After decades of ipecac use for poisoning, researchers looked at all of the evidence about ipecac syrup. They agreed that ipecac syrup reliably caused vomiting. They also agreed that this didn't make any difference!
In other words, there was little research to show that people who swallowed ipecac after poisoning did any better than others. There are times when ipecac is unsafe. It shouldn't be given to someone who swallowed chemicals that cause burns on contact or medicines that can cause seizures very quickly.
It can be dangerous to people with some types of medical problems. When such poisoning victims got ipecac anyway, they developed serious complications or even died. More and more people with eating disorders were using ipecac to make themselves throw up. Regular use of ipecac syrup is dangerous; for example, chronic users have died from heart problems.
Sometimes people vomiting after ipecac could not keep down other drugs they needed to treat their poisonings. Based on these facts, pediatricians, poison control experts, and federal regulators re-evaluated the use of ipecac. Post the poison control center number near the telephone. The universal telephone number in the United States is Calls are routed to the local poison control center.
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