Tar remover poisoning

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• Airways and lungs
  • Breathing difficulty
  • Throat swelling
• Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
  • Severe pain or burning in the throat, nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue
  • Vision loss
• Heart and blood
  • Collapse
  • Low blood pressure
• Intestinal tract
  • Abdominal pain - severe
  • Blood in the stools
  • Burns of the esophagus (food pipe)
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting (may be bloody)
• Nervous system
  • Convulsions
  • Depression
  • Dizziness
  • Drowsiness
  • Feeling of being drunk (euphoria)
  • Headache
  • Loss of alertness (unconsciousness)
  • Seizures
  • Staggering
  • Weakness
• Skin
  • Burns
  • Irritation
  • Necrosis (holes) in the skin or underlying tissues

Review Date: 02/01/2010
Reviewed By: Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org).

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