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Please tell me what can happen if you swallow a moth ball?
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Naphthalene mothball: Ingestion in children has led to vomiting, lethargy diarrhea, abdominal pain, v appetite, fever, pain w urination, dark urine, coma ; convulsions w acute hemolytic anemia, encephalopathy, kernicterus. Kidney ; liver damage have been noted. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/naphtech.html#cancer . I haven't even touched on paradicholorobenzene mothballs.
Answered 1/22/2014
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