Probably the other thing that parents wouldn’t think of as being highly toxic is iron tablets, and iron tablets can commonly be prescribed to mothers after they’ve had a baby. And I have seen a little girl who managed to swallow 20 iron tablets and when we X-rayed her, they were all stacked up in her oesophagus. They cause both a caustic injury to the oesophagus and then they cause a systemic toxicity as you start to absorb the iron tablets. So that little girl managed to swallow 20.
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