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Ticks are most active during warmer months (April-September), but tick bites can happen during any time of the year. Ticks live in grassy, wooded, brush-filled areas or even on animals. Tick exposure can happen in your own backyard. See a healthcare provider if you experience fever, rash, or aches within a few weeks of a tick bite.
E-Cigs? A growing new trend in nicotine use in the United States is electronic cigarettes. Common names are "e-Cigs" or "vapor cigarettes." They contain liquid nicotine. Such products are extremely dangerous if swallowed and must be locked away, out of reach and sight of children or pets.
Cigarettes and cigars contain enough nicotine to be dangerous if swallowed by children. Children are known to eat whole cigarettes, cigars, as well as the used "butts". Swallowing these can cause vomiting, sweating, and seizures. Always keep ashtrays out of reach of children.
Liquid nicotine, used to fill electronic cigarettes, is deadly if swallowed! It is highly concentrated nicotine, and is readily absorbed when swallowed.
It's not an intriguing or novel hazard, just the persistent, invisible killer: carbon monoxide. Seriously, you still don't have a carbon monoxide alarm in every sleeping area of your home? Get one! And keep fuel-burning appliances in good repair; don't use grills or gasoline-powered tools indoors, and don't run your car in an attached garage or place a generator close to your home.
Organic arsenic is less toxic than inorganic arsenic. Inorganic arsenic contaminates groundwater. Vomiting, neurological, and cardiac toxicity, anemia and rashes occur with acute toxicity. Chronic toxicity is associated with gastrointestinal symptoms, anemia, decreased white cells, peripheral neuropathy, liver damage, and vascular insufficiency. Arsenic is a human carcinogen.
Mold is a non-scientific term for many types of unwanted fungi found both indoors and outdoors. Active mold growth requires moisture. Actively-growing mold damages the material it lives on, thereby impairing structural integrity. In addition, mold is associated with some untoward health effects in humans, including allergies and infections.
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There are many ways for drugs and personal care products to enter ground water and surface water, which include water that we drink and use for recreation. Federal guidelines for safe disposal of medicines aim to prevent unintentional poisonings, misuse and diversion of discarded drugs, and to keep drugs within engineered landfills, instead of in the water supply.
All parts of the daffodil are toxic. When swallowed, it can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. Eating the bulb can cause severe irritation of the mouth and stomach upset. These symptoms are usually not life-threatening and resolve within a few hours.
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