Five children from Matanzas suffered poisoning this Monday that caused them to have respiratory problems. The minors were transferred to the Eliseo Noel Caamaño pediatric hospital, in that city, and will be discharged in the next few hours, posted on his Facebook wall Giron Newspaper. “They arrived in good health at the guardhouse and received temporary oxygen,” according to the director of the institution, José Hernández Hernández.
The children, from the municipality of Jovellanos, reported the local media, “entered with the diagnosis of obstruction of the respiratory tract.” the official Cubadebate published that the minors would have “ingested some strong chemical”, but without detailing the substance or the place of the incident, which caused numerous questions on social networks.
“Airway obstruction is not the same as inflammation or bronchospasm or spasm of the glottis due to inhalation or aspiration of toxic substances,” stressed Alberto Roque, who studied at the Faculty of Medical Sciences in Havana. “Finally, which toxins? Who was responsible? Was it accidental or intentional?”
“They arrived in good health at the guardhouse and received temporary oxygen,” according to the director of the institution, José Hernández Hernández
Calixto Rodríguez Machado commented: “The truth is that the information is crooked, crooked. Are they from the same family or from different homes? Was it at school or another institution? What substance did they take or inhale, should we assume it was chlorine? “.
The note from Cubadebate does not answer any of these questions and limits itself to collecting the symptoms produced by intoxication with certain chemicals, “among which chlorine is included, are difficulty breathing (inhalation), inflammation of the throat, pulmonary edema, pain throat, pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips or tongue, burns in the digestive tract, abdominal pain, vomiting, burns, irritation and hypotension (low blood pressure).
In addition, the official website recommends, as a parent, to keep “chemical products out of the reach of children” and “do not mix chlorine products with other cleaning substances, acids, vinegar, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide and ammonia.”
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