Question

Your unit has arrived on the scene of a private residence where the scene has been determined to be safe. According to the​ parents, their​ six-year-old son may have taken a handful of​ pills, thinking they were candy. You should contact medical direction or the poison control center to​ consider:
A. administering activated charcoal.
B. administering syrup of ipecac.
C. rinsing the​ patient's mouth out with water.
D. dilution with milk.

Answer 1

Answer:

A:Administering activated charcoal, per medical direction.

Explanation:Activated carbon detoxicates the stomach.

It prevents the poison from entering the stomach.

When removing toxins or poison from the body, it is widely indicated for overuse of drugs and severe poisoning. The charcoal molecules will bind into the drugs. That is the reason why activated charcoal also acts on medicines, and limits if not completely blocks the effects of the medicine.

Please note that: Ingesting charcoal will cause secondary effects so it is important only to use it by extreme cases like the six-year-old child's case of poisoning.

A small portion of activated charcoal will be indicated considering that the activated charcoal will prevent the poison from being absorbed into the stomach.

Activated charcoal is widely used in treating stomach pain, diarrhoea, and issues like poisoning