Doctors Debate Curbing Ipecac Treatment

AP Online | July 22, 2003| | Copyright

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Generations of parents knew the rule: Keep a bottle of ipecac around to induce vomiting in case your child swallows a poison. Now that rule may be about to change.

Amid evidence that ipecac doesn't actually treat poisoning well _ and is being abused, sometimes fatally, by people with bulimia _ the government is considering ending over-the-counter sales of the syrup.

Already some poison-control centers have quit recommending ipecac at all, and overall use is plummeting. Last year, poison-control centers recorded 16,000 cases of ipecac ...

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