Study finds 275,000 calls to poison control centers for dietary supplement exposures
U.S. Poison Control Centers receive a call every 24 minutes, on average, regarding dietary supplement exposures, according to a new study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the…
July 26, 2017 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: call-every, control, emergency medicine, from-the-center, injury, injury-research, new-study, nutrition, poison-control, policy, regarding-dietary, supplement-exposures
Energy drinks and kids: ‘disproportionate’ poison calls for young children
Over 40% of reports to poison control centers in the US regarding energy drinks are for children under the age of 6, say researchers, who call for improved labeling of such drinks.
November 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, poison-control, regarding-energy, say-researchers, under-the-age
Poisonous mushrooms: serious illnesses, foraging on the rise
Experts from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in the US have warned that the growing popularity of foraging for mushrooms in the wild may lead to increased hospitalizations and serious illness as a result of poisoning from the fungi. According to the experts, poison control centers nationwide answer around 6,000 calls nationwide from people who have consumed poisonous mushrooms…
September 30, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: from-the-fungi, growing, jersey-medical, on call diets, poison-control, public-health, rutgers, school, the-wild
