how do can you treat a human from rat poison ?

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If your child is unconscious, having convulsions or having difficulty breathing, call 911 immediately or take him or her to the closest hospital emergency room.

If your child is conscious, call 1-800-222-1222 and you will be automatically routed to your local poison control center. Have the following information ready:

+ Your child's age and weight
+ Descriptions of contents and other facts printed on product containers or medicine bottles
+ Time that the poisoning may have occurred
+ Your telephone number

Do not induce vomiting!

In the past, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advised parents to keep ipecac syrup, which causes vomiting, on hand for use if a doctor or poison control center recommended it.

The AAP changed its policy after concluding that ipecac does a poor job of removing poison from the body. Induced vomiting is also unpleasant, and it may make things worse. If you have ipecac in your home, dispose of it safely.

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If they only ingested a little it probably won't hurt them, they'll most likely throw it up anyway.But I would call the poison control center just to be safe

If you have an emergency, which it sounds like you might, call 911 or a poison controll center immediatley. If this is just a hypothetical, you can call a poison controll center and get advice there.

Vitamin K

call poison control and do not eat, drink, or induce vomiting untill you consult a profesional!!

From eMedicine health:

If you, a family member, or a friend has swallowed or breathed a poison and you have signs or symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, pain, trouble breathing, seizure, confusion, or abnormal skin color, then you must call either an ambulance or a poison control center for guidance.

As a rule, do not treat a poisoning at home.

Identify your closest poison control center from a comprehensive list of toll-free telephone numbers for poison control centers in all states at the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

Place the telephone number (along with police, fire, and 911 or equivalent) near your home phones.

If you phone a poison control center, ask these questions:

Do I need to make the person throw up?

Is there an antidote I can give at home?

Vomiting: Vomiting will rid the body of poison only if the poison is still in the stomach. This is likely only for an hour or 2 after ingestion. After that time, the poison has either been absorbed in the stomach or has passed farther down the intestinal tract where it cannot be vomited up.
Syrup of ipecac is a liquid that, when swallowed, causes vomiting in 20-30 minutes. You should only give ipecac when told to do so by a medical professional. The following describes how to give ipecac, if directed to:

Give the victim a full glass of water (8-12 ounces) just before or just after drinking the ipecac.

Ipecac comes in a 2-ounce bottle. One ounce equals 30 mL; 1 tablespoon equals 15 mL, and 1 teaspoon equals 5 mL. The dose for adults and teenagers is 15-30 mL. The dose for children aged 1-12 years is 15 mL. The dose for infants aged 6-12 months is 5 mL.

If the victim has not vomited in 20-30 minutes, repeat the initial dose one time only.

Ipecac is sold without a prescription at most pharmacies. An unopened bottle will last several years at room temperature. It is a good idea to keep a bottle of ipecac at home for a poisoning emergency.
When not to induce vomiting
If the person has taken a sleeping pill or sedative, which has or may cause the person to become unconscious, do not make the person vomit. Do not use ipecac. These people are at an extremely high risk of "aspirating" the vomit. Aspiration means breathing the vomit into the lungs and possibly drowning. The victim may lose consciousness and accidentally breathe the vomit into the lungs.

If the victim swallowed a caustic substance, such as lye or Drano, it has already chemically burned the mouth and esophagus once and would do so again when vomited.

If the victim swallowed a petroleum product, such as gasoline, kerosene, or paint thinner, these liquids can easily enter the lungs and cause severe damage. Vomiting increases the chance of this happening.

If the person is already vomiting from the poisoning, there is no need for ipecac to bring about vomiting.

If the person has swallowed a solid foreign object such as a pin, needle, fishhook, coin,

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Elimination: Get rid of the unabsorbed poison before it can do any harm.
In rare cases, the physician may use ipecac to cause vomiting.
If the person is unconscious, the doctor will put a flexible, soft, plastic tube into the windpipe to protect the person from suffocating in his or her own vomit and to provide artificial breathing.
Once the poison has moved past the stomach, other methods are needed.

Activated charcoal acts as a "super" absorber of many poisons. Once the poison is stuck to the charcoal in the intestine, the poison cannot get absorbed into the bloodstream. Activated charcoal has no taste, but the gritty texture sometimes causes the person to vomit. To be effective, activated charcoal needs to be given as soon as possible after the poisoning. It does not work with alcohol, caustics, lithium, or petroleum products.

Whole bowel irrigation requires drinking a large quantity of a fluid called GoLYTELY. This flushes the entire gastrointestinal tract before the poison gets absorbed.
Antidotes: Some poisons have specific antidotes. Antidotes either prevent the poison from working or reverse the effects of the poison.
Atropine is an antidote for certain nerve gases and insecticides. During Operation Desert Storm, all military personnel were issued atropine injectors when it was feared that Saddam Hussein would use nerve gas.

A common antidote is N-acetylcysteine (Mucomyst), which is used to neutralize Tylenol overdoses. Acetaminophen, in normal doses, is one of the safest medications known, but after a massive overdose, the liver is damaged, and hepatitis and liver failure develop. Mucomyst works as an antidote by bolstering the body's natural detoxification abilities when they are overwhelmed.
It may also be possible to reverse the harmful effect of a drug even if no antidote exists.

If a person with diabetes takes too much insulin, a dangerously low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) will cause weakness, unconsciousness, and eventually death. Sugar given by mouth or IV is an effective treatment until the insulin wears off.

When the poison is a heavy metal, such as lead, special medicines (chelators) bind the poison in the bloodstream and cause it to be eliminated in the urine.

Another "binder" is sodium polystyrene sulfonate (Kayexalate), which can absorb potassium and other electrolytes from the bloodstream.
General supportive measures: When there are no specific treatments, the physician will treat signs and symptoms as needed.

If the person is agitated or hallucinating, a sedative can be given to calm the person until the drug wears off.

A ventilator can be used to breathe for anyone who has stopped breathing from a poisoning.

Antiseizure medicines can be used to treat or prevent seizures.
Source(s):
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