Procedure in case of intoxication
When inside a POP contaminated site certain risk of intoxication exists, therefore it is crucial to know how to proceed in such an emergency. The following recommendations might be taken into account.
|Take the affected person away from exposure place and to a well ventilated place||Strip off affected person's clothes, wash hair and skin with abundant soap and water, especially inter-fingers spaces and below fingernails. Use impermeable gloves and avoid violent friction. Beware convulsions may appear thus never leave the affected person alone.||If the affected person remains conscious, administer activated carbon in an adult dose: one gram per kilogram of corporal weight diluted in 300 ml water|
|Administer oxygen||Contaminated clothes and other objects should never be manipulated by any unprotected person||Take the affected person to the nearest Health centre to perform a gastric wash|
|In case of eye contact, irrigate with water or a low-pressure isotonic saline solution during at least 15 min|
Beware that health surveillance must be under medical specialist supervision. Therefore the previous recommendations must be considered only for guidance.