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Be prepared for season's ills
The poison ivy you're burning can blister your airways. The sunburn ointment eaten by your toddler may cause a seizure. The snake outside your pup tent could bite your ankle and kill you. Summertime, experts say, carries its own catalog of long-shot catastrophes. Spider bites, poisonous plants, wasp stings, spilled fertilizer — the potential hazards multiply when the human species ventures outside. In winter months, about 5,200 people call the nation's poison-control centers each day. But the calls jump about 20 percent in summer, to roughly 6,400 calls per day, said Rose Ann Soloway, associate director of the American Association of Poison Control Centers.
So keep this phone number handy:
800-222-1222. (The nation's 65 poison-control centers are all connected to the toll-free hotline.)
A few specific reminders about common summertime stumbles:
Poison ivy should not be touched, of course. But experts warn it also should not be burned. The smoke contains plant oils that, when inhaled, can cause blisters inside the nose, throat and air passages. If someone exposed to poison ivy has trouble breathing, dial 911 immediately. Along with its cousins poison sumac and poison oak, poison ivy has in its sap a chemical called urushiol. Urushiol that penetrates the skin causes a rash and maddening itch.
If you realize within the first 10 minutes that you've had contact with poison ivy you can apply rubbing alcohol, then rinse with water. Do not wash with soap — that spreads the urushiol — and the rash.
Treat the itchy rash with an oral antihistamine such as Benadryl, Claritin or Allegra, or have your doctor prescribe a cortisone cream (stronger than over-the-counter creams).
Dry up blisters with calamine, Burrows solution (aluminum acetate), Aveeno (oatmeal) bath, zinc oxide or a baking-soda paste.
If your face or genitals are affected, or if the rash covers more than a third of your body, see a doctor, who may prescribe oral corticosteroids to reduce risk of infection and scarring.
Some people tout Zanfel, a urushiol-binding cream used after exposure to wash the stuff away, but the medical establishment hasn't recognized it as a treatment.
Wear gloves to wipe with alcohol and water shoes or anything else that might have come in contact with the urushiol, and wash clothes immediately.
And next time you're heading for the woods where there may be poison ivy, consider wearing boots, long pants and sleeves, and coating exposed skin with a product such as IvyBlock, which binds to the urushiol and lets you wash it off before it penetrates the skin.
Pesticides and poisonings
• Summer brings more people out into the gardens. Parents, make sure you put any pesticides out of the reach of children.
Many parents fail to put bags of organophosphates — pesticides that can cause harm if eaten, inhaled or absorbed through the skin — on shelves, because they're heavy. But the sandlike chemicals can be alluring to children.
• It's the season for food poisoning. Many of the cases occur when picnickers or barbecuers allowed uncooked food to mix with cooked food, or let bacteria flourish on unrefrigerated food.
• Watch out for lighter fluid. If swallowed, some liquid may reach the lungs and cause pneumonia; and lighter fluid poisoning killed three people in 2000.
• Take care with gasoline. When someone becomes sick from swallowing gasoline, it's often because he or she was trying to siphon fuel from a car tank for use in a lawn mower.
"But that's the beginning-of-summer story," Soloway said. "The end-of-summer story is people siphoning it out of the lawn mower to put it back in their car."
