Posted on 02/28/2022 6:36:04 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
CINCINNATI (WXIX/Gray News) - Officials are advising parents to keep at-home COVID-19 test kits away from kids because they could contain a harmful, toxic substance.
The Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center is reporting an uptick in accidental exposures to a possibly toxic substance in at-home COVID-19 test kits, the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center said in a blog post on its website.
Poison control centers nationwide are reporting the same finding, WXIX reported.
This comes as more than 50 million households recently received free at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government, according to Dr. Tom Inglesby, senior advisor for the White House COVID-19 response team.
The substance of concern is sodium azide which is in the reagent liquid used to trigger the chemical reaction that detects the presence of coronavirus, the medical center reported in their blog post.
The types of test kits vary, but they generally contain a swab, testing card and an extraction vial containing the reagent liquid.
When the liquid is swallowed, the sodium azide in it can cause a headache and lower the blood pressure.
In large amounts, it can cause seizures, according to the medical center.
The medical center said the main call poison centers are receiving is children finding the bottle of the reagent liquid and putting in their mouth or spilling it on themselves.
Poison centers have also received calls of adults mistaking the bottle for eye drops, according to the medical center.
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Mrs. Fonebone got one of those in the mail yesterday.
She took it and unceremoniously dumped it in the trash can.
Covid tests
You’re doing it wrong!
“a possibly toxic substance”
Yeah, kinda like snakes.....they are ALL considered poisonous unless you know they’re not.
Same
But for adults the toxic substance is OK??? Idiots.
Sodium azide solutions react with metallic ions to precipitate metal azides, which can be shock sensitive and explosive. This should be considered for choosing a non-metallic transport container for sodium azide solutions in the laboratory. This can also create potentially dangerous situations if azide solutions should be directly disposed down the drain into a sanitary sewer system. Metal in the plumbing system could react, forming highly sensitive metal azide crystals which could accumulate over years. Adequate precautions are necessary for the safe and environmentally responsible disposal of azide solution residues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_azide#Automobile_airbags_and_aircraft_evacuation_slides
Also used as the explosive to inflate aircraft evacuation slides
Did she order it so she could throw it away?
You had to fill out a request to get the test kuts,
The (lateral flow) test kits that we get here in the UK carry a warning, not to get the reagent liquid on your skin and certainly not in your eyes - and to wash/rinse the affected parts thoroughly if you do. It also cautions to be handled/used by adults only.
I wondered what the problem was.
(Only a moron would drink it or deliberately squirt it into their eyes?)
I think the warning is directed at parents since kuds are the ones who would drink it.
Mist adults unless they are idiots wouldn’t drink it.
Bottom line is what?... Can nasal swabs used for covid testing introduce something toxic into a person’s body and therefore be potentially dangerous? For those who refused to get EGT’d, producing negative test results happens frequently so it isn’t uncommon to have to do this regularly....it’s one thing if it is a one-off deal but if doing this several times a week over an extended period, that tends to make one more careful...
Apparently I was incorrect when I claimed that people would receive test kits without requesting them, although I would not have been surprised if the Biden gang wanted to send them out without a request, like ballots.
The bottom line is the Biden gang is too eager to do all kinds of harmful things. In this case, they did not think too hard about negative effects. I don’t know what you mean by EGT.
Experimental gene therapied....
Just when you think humans can’t possibly get any more stupid.
Thanks
The government is also apparently sending them to people who tested positive in the past. My neighbor, who passed away 6 months ago, got one.
Do you think tge gov’t is organized enough to have a data base with everyone’s name and address who tested positive?
Sorry that is not believable.
I tested positive abd have nit gotten test kits
” My neighbor, who passed away 6 months ago, got one.”
I’ll bet he was happy about getting one. /s
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