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a mother calls a neighborhood nurse and tells the nurse that her 3-year-old child has just ingested liquid furniture polish. which action would the nurse instruct the mother to take first?

Answer :

Activated charcoal – sometimes used to treat someone who's been poisoned; the charcoal binds to the poison and stops it being further absorbed into the blood.

Is furniture polish toxic?
Furniture polish
poisoning can cause symptoms in many parts of the body. Symptoms depend on how the poisoning occurred, and how much of the poison was involved. Swallowing such poison may cause: Agitation.

Activated charcoal is used in the emergency treatment of certain kinds of poisoning. It helps prevent the poison from being absorbed from the stomach into the body. Sometimes, several doses of activated charcoal are needed to treat severe poisoning

Taking it one or two hours apart from everything else ensures that the charcoal binds to toxins instead of food or medication.

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