The phone number for the American Association of Poison
Control Centers is 1-800-222-1222, and the official website address is www.aapcc.org. In the current annul report, it
has explained three issues, which are age & gender distribution, reason for
exposure and the route of exposure.
Source:http://www.consumermedsafety.org/safe-medicine-storage-and-disposal/babysitters
Age and Gender Distribution
The age and gender distribution of human exposures is
outlined in Table 3 in the annul report. 35.6% of exposures are related
to the children who under 3 years old. In addition, approximately half (47.7%)
of all human exposures are related with the children who are under 6 years old.
The cases analysis shows that for the case with children
under 13, most of the predominance was male.
However, this gender distribution was different in teenagers and adults,
females are the majority of cases with reported exposures.
Reason by Age
Basically, most exposures related to the children are
unintentional and most of the cases related to the adults are intentional
exposures.
According to the annul report, Intentional exposures
accounted for 16.7% of human exposures. Suicidal intent was suspected in 11.2%
of cases, intentional misuse in 2.5% and intentional abuse in 2.2%.
Unintentional exposures outnumbered intentional exposures in
all age groups with the exception of ages 13– 19 years. Intentional exposures
were more frequently reported than unintentional exposures in patients aged
13-19 years.
In contrast, of the 1,173 reported fatalities with RCF 1–3,
the major reason reported for children[1]5
years was unintentional while most fatalities in adults were intentional.
Route of Exposure
According to the annul report, the big three of the most
frequency route are Ingestion, Dermal and Inhalation/nasal.
Ingestion was the route of exposure in 83.7% of cases,
followed in frequency by dermal (7.0%), inhalation/nasal (6.1%), and ocular
routes (4.3%). For the 1,173 exposure-related fatalities, ingestion (81.4%),
inhalation/ nasal (10.1%), unknown (7.8%) and parenteral (5.2%) were the
predominant exposure routes.
Each exposure case may have more than one route.
