And they are trying to do it from all angles.
If you have any of these at home,
THROW THEM OUT.
Poison Control Centers Warn About Toxic Chemical in At-Home COVID-19 Test Kits
By Jack Phillips February 27, 2022 Updated: February 28, 2022
Some at-home rapid COVID-19 tests contain a toxic chemical that may be harmful to both children and adults, according to health officials.
The Cincinnati Drug and Poison Information Center reported an uptick in accidental exposures to a possibly toxic substance, sodium azide, in at-home COVID-19 test kits, according to a blog post. Meanwhile, the National Poison Control Center issued a warning about the chemical.
“It is important to know that the extraction vial in many rapid antigen kits includes the chemical sodium azide as a preservative agent,” the center said. “The BinaxNow, BD Veritor, Flowflex, and Celltrion DiaTrust COVID-19 rapid antigen kits all contain this chemical.”
Sodium azide is a colorless, odorless powder that testers dip cotton swabs into. The chemical is found in herbicides, pest control agents, and airbags for cars.
“Small doses of sodium azide can lower blood pressure, and larger doses may cause more serious health effects,” an advisory from Health Canada also said. “ProClin is also found in many kits. It contains chemicals that can cause skin and eye irritation, as well as allergic reactions.”
Some hospitals around the United States say they have received a surge in phone calls about exposures to the chemical.
“We started getting our first exposures to these test kits around early November,” said Sheila Goertemoeller, pharmacist and clinical toxicologist for the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “It was, really, all ages.”
“Mostly, I’ve been very worried about our young children.”
Accidental exposure is occurring among both children and adults, said Dr. Kelly Johnson-Arbor, with the National Capital Poison Center in Washington, told WNEP over the weekend.
“People might mistake them for eye drops. Children might drop it onto their skin. Adults will sometimes mistakenly put them into their eyes,” she said.
“You don’t want to leave it on the skin because it could potentially cause an allergic reaction or a skin rash.
“If someone drinks the solution, it’s really important to contact poison control right away. The solutions have different ingredients. Some have non-toxic ingredients and others have more dangerous ingredients.”
Officials told WNEP that there’s no need to throw away the test kits, but people should be mindful when using them.
“Use them properly, dispose of them properly, and it won’t cause an issue,” Dr. Jeffrey Jahre, with St. Luke’s University Health Network, told the outlet.
If you suspect you or someone you know has ingested the chemical, officials recommend not to make the person vomit. For eye exposures, rinse the eyes for 15 to 20 minutes with warm water. For skin exposures, rinse the skin well with tap water. Immediately check the Poison Control Center’s online tool for guidance or call poison control at 1-800-222-1222, the website says.Jack PhillipsBREAKING NEWS REPORTER
I have now for a while for my job, since I amazingly petitioned for a religious exemption and was granted one, have to do a weekly self test and ship it to a lab. I have not yet once jabbed that swab up my nose, thought about swabbing my dogs nose, but that was a mental flight of humorous outcomes for me – you dont have covid, but you got rabies, and are going to have pups – I spit in a napkin, swirl the stick in it, put it in the vial, and off it goes. Evil to do that to my dog.
I got the cov a while back, had a day of feeling like i got hit by as truck, then a week of just feeling worn out. Work knows this and at this point, why bother with testing but no, Not jabbed, still gotta test, still gotta mask…( INSIDE INFO ) No one I work with is or has, been paying attention to this crap for the past year. In the rare case someone higher up says something, we pull up our mask, nod, and as soon as they are gone, it comes off… actually, as I think about it, that hasnt happened in the last six months anyway.
I got natural immunity now, but still got to swab weekly.
Last swab i just pissed on.
Next one will show up tomorrow, thinking im going to swab my ass this time, but that would be unfair to my asshole that is less offensive than this whole scamdemic.
I got a hell of a laugh off of this comment! I have to go in for biweekly wound care and the hospital wanted a swab because of the amount of times I go in. I told them sure, in the front lobby with the hospital administrator at about 8:30 am, usually busiest time in a hospital regime and the admin weinie had to take an anal swab as that was the only definitive test for viral contaminates. I told them this was the only test and place I was going to allow and I would sign a waiver to expose my ass per HIPPA regulations in a public settings. They declined and haven’t asked since. I should have held out for the damn diaper mask…
Still not as toxic as ivermectin! SMH!
How is Ivermectin toxic?
Sorry forgot the “sarc” in my comment….
Sarc is good… I am a retired nurse and known about Ivermection since it came out and in fact use it prophetically myself.
Prophetically? I’m sure you mean as a prophylactic.
You are right, I didn’t spell check myself…after using spell check. I was in a hurry to type it and get back to fixing dinner, in fact it was bacon wrapped pock chops… must be bacon night.
Green apple is an acquired taste, but just think of it as a creamy jolly rancher! Bwahahaha!
I take the injectable in apple juice, kind of like taking bitters with your gin…
Par for the course.
At home test is a failure in logic for me.
I’m not going to test unless I have symptoms. If I have symptoms, I’m headed to where my doc directs me to get the mono-clonol-antibody treatment.
Why even send these out? Unlikely that the things would actually infect you but I think it’s entirely reasonable that they want people to test, send it in, whatever and have this result in lots of false positives so they can keep up their BS story.
Yes, it is a real virus, but no one that I know of argues against the 99.x survival rate so why destroy the friggin country over it, shoot up kids, etc.
If I get Covid again, I’m going where I can get Ivermectin. Doubt I will.
I am continually amazed at how even the deeply skeptical among us continue to buy into this “Testing” BS. Even after a year or more of getting terms like “false positive rate” into the lexicon, never mind such esoteric concepts as “sensitivity” and “specificity” for the analyte in question. Yes, I spent 38 years doing laboratory testing, so I am about as hard core cynical about it as you can get. There are so many ways that even a good test can be screwed up, and it ALWAYS come back to the doc who ordered the test in the first place to decide if he wants to believe it or not. That’s why they’re paid the big bucks; I just crank out results, if they want to believe it, it’s on them.
As for sodium azide, that’s a red herring issue. Yes it’s used as a preservative in all kinds of things, in infinitessimally small quantities, and has been for many decades. Concentrated and in quantity, it is indeed very nasty stuff, explosive in fact. But as a preservative, we’re talking nanogram quantities.
It is because of morons like Jack Phillips that there are “Do not use on roof” warnings on snow blowers. He probably needs to have a cork put on the end of his fork to keep from poking his eye out. Try reading the Material Safety Data Sheet on a can of wasp spray some day. Nasty stuff if it get deflected back into your eyes.
And this is coming from a guy that used to clean his bare hands covered in organic goo with straight benzene (a know carcinogen).
MEK/MPK works better and leaves your hands nice and dry. Livers are overrated anywho!
Oh I’ve played with all sorts of organic solvents, many of which can be found in bulk in any paint supply department. Starting with model airplanes painted with dope (acetone is the solvent), to the fuel, mostly castor oil and methanol, with some small amount of nitromethane for kick. Want to remove “indelible” Sharpie ink? Chloroform is your ticket. And while it stinks horribly, xylene will dissolve old dried masking tape into a goo that can be wiped off.
Yeah, the liver is the most incredibly regenerative organ if you give it half a chance. It can detox most anything that isn’t actually overdosed. Fun times with chemistry.
And white gas (alpha-naphthalene) makes for a great campfire starter. Just remember to us an old tin can not a Styrofoam coffee cup. The cup will dissolve in 3… 2.. 1.
Actually. ALL the tests made in China, which Walgreens and .gov so helpfully provide contain the sodium azide. I checked 3 brands today, all of them had it.
For the 3rd time in about 8 months I have a dry cough, kind of down low in the trachea. No fever, no other symptoms. no problems with breathing or much else Debating if I want to try one of the tests just for grins but hot tea and coffee seem to take care of most of the irritation..
Crap seems to go away on it’s own in about 3 or 4 days and I have not been kissing any chickens, swine or bats that I am aware of .;-)