Clinical Evaluation and Management of Household Cleaning Product Ingestions in a Pediatric Emergency Department

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Pediatric household cleaning product ingestions predominantly occur in children under five years old, are often asymptomatic at presentation, and frequently involve harmful pre-hospital interventions by caregivers. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

Aytaç Göktüğ; Mehmet Muhsin Kefçi; Gülser Esen Besli; Çiğdem Ulukaya Durakbaşa

doi:10.70852/tmj.2004188

August 27, 2026Türk tıp dergisi.Open Access

Clinical Evaluation and Management of Household Cleaning Product Ingestions in a Pediatric Emergency Department

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To evaluate the demographic, clinical, and prognostic characteristics of pediatric patients presenting to an emergency department after household cleaning product ingestion.
Retrospective study of pediatric patients admitted to an emergency department after ingesting household cleaning agents.
Classified cleaning agents into high- and low-risk categories and evaluated caregiver prehospital interventions, symptoms, physical findings, and endoscopic outcomes.
Young children under five years accounted for 80.0% of cases and males represented 56.0%, with 64.0% of all patients presenting asymptomatically.
Caregivers administered inappropriate and harmful prehospital interventions in 24.0% of ingestion cases.
Selective endoscopy was performed in 50.0% of high-risk patients (n=11)—all of whom exhibited symptoms or abnormal exam findings—while 0% of the low-risk group required endoscopy.

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Retrospective study reveals clinical profiles and endoscopic patterns in pediatric cleaning product ingestion, highlighting the danger of inappropriate prehospital interventions.

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