Vomiting after ingestion, and how to do so?

In America, 911 puts you on hold.

Just imagine you've done that. You can control your own body right?

Thanks for your reasoned argument.

Thanks for your reasoned argument.

The primary risk of inducing vomiting after ingesting a poison or even just an overdose of most oral medications is for aspiration pneumonia. The complications of that are often substantially greater than the physiological effects of the overdose. If you don't know the best treatment (both first aid and definitive treatment) call the national poison control number (1-800-222-1222) which is staffed with experts 24/7.

Of course, if you have good reason to suspect an opioid overdose, whether oral or by injection, narcan (naloxone) or a generic equivalent should be administered ASAP. You won't make things worse and you might just save a life. Call or have someone nearby call 911 to request an ambulance, monitor rate of breathing and pulse (either at the neck or at the wrist) and start CPR if there is no pulse. Turn the patient on their side to minimize aspiration pneumonia in the event of vomiting and try to ensure an open airway by keeping the chin forward and the head back.

Pah, too complicated. Puke it up then rinse with some water if it's stinging your throat. Actually digesting the poison has to be the worst thing.

You mean making a phone call is too complicated for you?

That suggests, after the prompt damage, the "exposure" of tissues that are normally protected by an outer coating, continues just from normally ingested material.

The article mentions the possibility poison control will recommend drinking milk. Which may have something to do with neutralizing digestive enzymes than with taming the bleach. If bleach breaks through the mucosa, the normal stomach digestive mechanism, may start to digest the lining.

And there is an entire book about vomiting. I glanced through the book while staying at a doctors chalet at a ski hill. The doctors pooled their money and bought a chalet near a ski hill, and they take turns using it during ski season. I was stuck at the chalet the first day, with no ski equipment (we stayed at a motel, the chalet was just "base camp"). It was one of my weirder ski trips.

Since there is an entire book about the vomiting response, you can be assured it's a complicated process. It's not just "jack-in-a-box". The body does not like to waste food nutrient unnecessarily, which is why the firing mechanism has constituent parts. The body knows for example, that vomiting needs fluids to work, and it provides them. it has to prime the cannon, before it can fire the cannon. And the muscular contractions have to be coordinated for it to work. It requires timing. Think of the automation.

Paul