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Tag: poison

Alarming increase in cases of cannabis poisoning in children

January 25, 2024January 26, 2024Arsen Mayer

An “alarming increase” in the reporting of cannabis poisoning in children in 2023 compared to 2022 has been noted by the Health Ministry’s National Center for Poisoning Information at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus. At the end of last December, a one-year-old girl was brought to the emergency room of Rambam’s Ruth Children’s Hospital. She […]

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Liquid laundry packets are poisoning children, teens and adults

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024Arsen Mayer

Although colorful liquid detergent packets harm the environment and have caused poisoning in children and pets, people around the world, including in Israel, continue to use them.  A new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Central Ohio Poison […]

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Israel Poison Center to mushroom pickers: Cooking doesn’t stop poisoning

December 21, 2023December 21, 2023Arsen Mayer

With the rains of winter, mushrooms are pushing their heads up through the ground in forests or even on lawns. Mushrooms are fungi that originate from tiny spores, and in the wild, they release their own spores that fall to the ground or are carried by the wind. They appear suddenly because of their rapid […]

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