I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at
the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her
little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and
there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down, and at
the end of the conversation happened to mention that she gave her daughter some ant poison
to eat in order to kill the ants. I told her that she better bring her daughter into the
Emergency Room right away.
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