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Reader Stories: Accidental Poisonings

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There are some household chemicals you just shouldn't mix and numerous ways to accidentally poison yourself. Do you have an accidental poisoning story to share? Have you ever mixed chemicals with a disastrous result? Be sure to offer any advice that would help prevent others from repeating your mistake.

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Potassium Poisoning

I was in my room and my sister bought me some potassium from the black markets in Bali. I ate it it was sopposed to make you feel stronger but it didn't. I knew i was in trouble when i passed out and…More

Ammonia Poisoning Experience

I put it on the floor straight .I thought if i let it set it would make it whiter.The smell made me a little light headed. so I wen't back and layed down.I waited a little while and looked at my floo…More

Ammonia Poisoning Experience

my sister had given my some amonia so I put it streight on the floor I forgot how to use it it had been a year sinc she gave it to me.I put it on the floor straight .I thought if i let it set it woul…More

Bleach and Toilet Bowl Cleaner

it jsut happened with my dad last night, while in the bathroom he thought it would be a great cleaning solution to pour acid over a toilet bowl where bleach has already been sprinkled, he had to get …More

Psychedelic Mushrooms

When I got home I was sure it was an edible mushroom. But it was not. After I ate it I felt perfect. First I went to the fridge to eat some yogurt that contained very little alcochol. Once I ate it a…More

Bleach and Cat Urine

One of our cats likes to use the bathtub as a cat box... Usually we run water to wash it down the drain and then use bleach to disinfect it.... but today, I just poured the bleach directly on it. It …More

Mixing Bleach and The Works Toilet Bowl Cleaner

. I wanted to clean my toilet and poured bleach into the toilet bowl. Then I added The Works toilet cleaner and it immediately started to foam. Soon after there was a very strong smell that actually …More

Bleach and Ammonia Vapors

I was cleaning my carpet for the holidays and I wanted my carpet to be clean very fluffy and sanitized. someone told me to use bleach and ammonia and it will really clean the carpet.while cleaning, t…More

Bleach and Ammonia

My eyes started watering I was coughing out of control and every time I coughed flem would come out my mouth. Had troublem breathing as if I had bronchitis. I called poison control they advised me to…More

Bleach and Urine Toxic Fumes

I poured solid bleach all over my bathroom floor. Heard a fizzing sound but just thought the bleach was cleaning the floor. My mistake was, closing the bathroom door. After 10 minutes, I opened the d…More

Toxic Fumes from Toilet Cleaner, Bleach and Mean Green

I was cleaning the toilet and bathtubs so i decided to just pour all the chemicals into one spray bottle and do it all at once. I noticed a very strong smell so I put a particulate mask on and just k…More

Bleach Cleaning the Litter Box

I got home from vacation and though my sister said she was going to clean the litter box while I was gone, I came back to a mess. The entire thing was filled with urine and I thought it'd be a good i…More

Toilet Bowl Cleaner and Bleach Poisoning

To clean a toilet I poured some bleach into the bowl so that it could set overnight before I scrubbed it and flushed it. Seeing something dark and gross coming from the underside of the rim, I decide…More

Sulfuric Acid Burn Accident

I was using a plastic pipette to transfer concentrated sulfuric acid into a round-bottom flask for an esterification experiment. I usually wear gloves all the time, but my old pair was all dirty and …More

Mixing Clorox Products

I poured them all in the sink and then ONE minute later a white vapor like fume arose from the sink and then I smelt an odor so strong I could not tolerate it the minute I smelt it. Since I did not h…More

Swiffer Jet Wipes and Bleach

used swifer wet wipes to clean my bathroom tile floor which didn't work, then decided to get on my hands and knees and use bleach spray to clean the grout.the mixture of the two cleansers caused a to…More

Chlorine Lab Accident and Poisoning

I took some manganese dioxide from an alkaline battery and reacted it with hydrochloric acid, trying to obtain a manganese(II) chloride solution. I thought that the chlorine produced would be detecta…More

Bleach with Toilet Bowl Cleaner

I was cleaning the toilet, so i thought that adding bleach to the toilet while the toilet bowl cleaner was in there, almost instantaneously, i saw foam coming out of where the two components mixed, a…More

Bleach and Cat Urine

Poured pure bleach from the jar onto the cat pee spots. Inmediately caused abundant white foaming and the fumes hurted my eyes, I had to move inmediately. Then it came the fumes. It was hard to breat…More

Mixing Bathroom Cleaners

When it was burning my nose and finding it hard to breathe. My nose was burning when i breathed in, eyes watered and chest was sore after. Then i read the back of bleach bottle and it said not to mix…More

Iodine Poisoning

I poured tincture of iodine into a cup and attached twelve volts to two electrodes which were placed in the cup. Iodine started forming around the anode. There was much fumes coming from the cup of i…More

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from a Gas Range

I felt sick so I went to the doctor with flu like symptoms. (found out later that the CO had gotten into my body and caused these). The burner in the oven was the problem because it was never burning…More

Iron and Potassium Cyanide Exposure

when I was in the lab and was measuring the iron conc. in the solution I used a pipet to withdraw the iron reagent which is potassium cyanide but by a wrong way that was by my mouth not by the pipet …More

Broken Mercury Thermometers and Cleaner in the Eyes

I shook down the temperature thermometer and it shattered on a piece of furniture and the mercury came out of the thermometer with the glass all over me. I also had my eye with Noxon polish in it for…More

Formaldehyde Poisoning

My 8th grade science teacher had a human brain in a jar of formaldehyde and brought it out for all us kids to see one day. I was the "lucky" person that got to hold it for the other students to poke …More

Hydrogen Cyanide and Formaldehyde Poisoning

If want to find out what is in a bottle take off the stopper and wave your hand gently above the opening and then sniff. Do not touch anything with bare hands, wash your hands before and after going …More

Is That Radiation in Your Pocket?

We were warned over and over that the radioactive sources were valuable and should not be misplaced. Where better to keep it than your pocket? A few minutes of exposure probably would not be a big de…More

Homemade Pepper Spray

I received a shipment of garden goodies from my in-laws that included a batch of various hot peppers they had grown that year. I wanted to use them in a recipe but they were really dried out.After a …More

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