Symptoms of acute mercury poisoning are not specific: headache, malaise, generalized weakness, decreased appetite, metallic taste in the mouth. When declared poisoning occurs:
saliva, leeway and bleeding gums, pain during swallowing, shortness of breath with little physical activity. In severe cases it is observed: fever, chest pain, cough, gastrointestinal disturbances (painful abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea).
When extreme poisoning develops bloody pneumonia and stools, death can occur on the second or third day. Of course, if there is a possibility of a deadly outcome in all cases when a thermometer with mercury is damaged at home, they will no longer be released. However, mild to moderate-to-moderate poisoning rates are possible at the following meeting situations:
rapid evaporation of mercury (mercury droplets on heating devices, etc.)
there is the possibility of creating high concentrations of steam (tightly closed space); the victim has been in the affected area for a long time without the basic means of an individual.
** The goal of this treatment is to reduce the effect of mercury on humans, protecting the sensitive tissues from consuming the substances in them, completely removing mercury from the body. **
Hazardous mercury poisoning! You should seek medical help immediately, before the ambulance arrives, you have to drink milk, and then vomited to remove the liquid.
** With symptoms of mercury poisoning in the hospital, people affected by stomach flushes, giving activated carbon, intravenously inject sodium thiosulfate solution, take action to protect the liver and kidneys. Especially in cases of severe poisoning, so-called preparation of BAL is given. **
It was created by the British military for its own purposes, but it turned out its application was effective both in the treatment of mercury poisoning, and poisoning with some other heavy metals.
