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Warning-sign checks

Dye remover poisoning: when to get help

Go through these in order and stop at the first one that applies. If you are reading this for someone else, answer for them.

  1. 1

    Is any of this happening now?

    Call 911

    Call an emergency service now if there is:

    • Severe difficulty breathing, choking, or throat swelling
    • Blue-grey lips or skin
    • Collapse, a seizure, severe confusion, or difficulty waking
    • Vomiting blood or passing black or bloody stool
    • Severe chest or abdominal pain
    • Sudden loss of vision or severe eye pain
    • A suspected hole or severe burn in the digestive tract

    Elsewhere, contact the local poison information centre or emergency service.

    Have the product label available if possible.

    If exposure may have been intentional, emergency care should include compassionate mental health support and protection from further harm.

    And for anyone, someone who:

    • you believe has taken an overdose or swallowed something poisonous
    Other emergency signs, for anyone
    • Someone who is struggling to breathe, gasping, choking, or cannot get words out
    • Someone who has chest pain, tightness or pressure lasting more than a few minutes
    • Someone who has sudden weakness or drooping on one side of the face or body, slurred speech, or sudden confusion
    • Someone who is unconscious, or cannot be woken
    • Someone who is bleeding heavily and it will not stop with firm pressure
    • Someone who has had a seizure that will not stop, or does not wake up afterwards
    • Someone who has lips or skin that look pale, blue, grey or blotchy
  2. 2

    Is any of this happening?

    Be seen today

    Contact a poison centre immediately after any swallowed dye remover, even without symptoms.

    Also seek prompt advice after significant inhalation, ongoing eye pain after rinsing, blistering skin, repeated vomiting, painful swallowing, or persistent coughing.

  3. 3

    Does any of this apply?

    Book an appointment

    After discharge, attend recommended follow-up for burns, eye injury, or lung symptoms.

    Seek earlier review if swallowing becomes harder, food sticks, weight falls, vomiting returns, or breathing symptoms do not improve.

The article also says

In the United States, Poison Control can be reached at 1-800-222-1222 .

Every sign above is quoted from the sofidex article on Dye remover poisoning. If you are not sure, err upward — it is always reasonable to be checked.