You can be treated without being admitted to a hospital.
I thought they were referring to this study because it evaluated roughly 450,000 patient records from 2001-2008, but on first glance it does not appear that the article mentions specific symptoms such as faster heart rate or liver damage. When talking about injuries (~25,000), it says “Injured means the medical outcome was coded as moderate effect, major effect, or death”. I looked at the 2009 Annual Report of American Association of Poison Control Centers and searched for “moderate” (the report is 200 pages long, so I have no intention of reading it closely). It said:
The NPDS database allows for the coding of up to 131 different clinical effects (signs, symptoms, or laboratory abnormalities) for each case. Each clinical effect can be further defined as related, not related, or unknown if related. Clinical effects were coded in 849,516 (34.3%) cases. […] The duration of effect is required for all cases that report at least one clinical effect and have a medical outcome of minor, moderate or major effect (n = 455,084).
It appears that in general, most cases do not have a clinical effect coded. I would assume that all admitted patients would have clinical effects coded, but I am not sure. It seems that the “25000” is specifically not including “minor effects”.
When your child ingests some amount of medication, is your plan to just sit at home and see what happens?
How many children need to die or be injured each year before you consider something worth discussing?
