Best Evidence Topics

Milk and bleach poisoning

Report By: Simon Carley - Consultant in Emergency Medicine
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Institution: Hope Hospital
Date Submitted: 10th December 2003
Last Modified: 10th December 2003
Status: Red (incomplete)

Three Part Question

[In a patient who has ingested bleach] is [milk better than water] at [reducing local irritation, strictures, burns to GI tract]