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Phosphate poisoning by ingestion of clothes washing liquid and fabric conditioner
1Shackleton Department of Anaesthetics, Southampton General Hospital, UK.
Anaesthesia
|January 20, 1999
Abstract:
A case of deliberate ingestion of clothes washing liquid and fabric conditioner is described. Tracheal intubation and controlled ventilation became necessary because of respiratory muscle dysfunction associated with hypocalcaemia. We suggest that the phosphate component of the clothes washing liquid was responsible for the dramatic metabolic upset and subsequent need for admission to the Intensive Care Unit.