Plants that adorn the streets and gardens can cause poisoning
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If they come into contact with skin or eyes may be unhealthy. And children are major victims. Check the guidelines on how to handle them and avoid intoxication.
Beautiful flowers, vibrant colors and exude a smell that can hide a remarkable risk: usually poisonous. If they come in contact with skin or eyes may be unhealthy and children are the greatest victims of poisoning.
Cute, but poisonous. Nor does it seem, but many plants that adorn the streets and gardens can cause poisoning if eaten or simply touched. Oleanders, azaleas, and lantanas pa_olarock are examples. The Bom Dia Rio asked the landscaper Luciana Cappelli to help identify some of these plants.
"They can cause irritation to the skin, eyes, can cause vomiting, diarrhea, swelling of the mouth, lips. And it has the most dangerous that can even cause death if ingested, toxins because they are very strong and cause this type of reaction "says the landscape Luciana Cappelli.
In all, 60% of poisoning cases occur in Brazil with children younger than nine years, according to the National Poison Information from the Botanical Garden.
In 80% of cases of children poisoned by poisonous plants, contact was accidental. Stir them, do not wash their hands and itchy eyes or take a hand in the mouth. The adults are poisoned more when they use the plants in teas or compresses.
"If there is an ingestion of a plant that is diagnosed that the person is poisoning was due to a plant, you must take to where you are being treated the plant, to be seen which is the toxin that is present there," says the landscape.
Many of these plants are common in some gardens, because, despite being poisonous, are beautiful.
"This is the case of lantana, which is a graceful flower super, super calling attention color. The azalea, which also uses a lot of people, because it also has beautiful flowers with different colors. The Tinhorão is dangerous too. If swallowed can cause choking, then it must be very careful. These plants can all be used, but you should know and know the risk they pose is: leave out of reach of children, wear gloves when handling them, keep away from animals, "says the landscape Luciana Cappelli.
The reporter Vinicius Assis walked the landscape by Luciana Itanhangá on a farm and was impressed with the amount of common plants that may bring some damage to health. Then they went to a street in the neighborhood of Anil, Jacarepaguá. Along the way, she showed species, such as oleander planted in the sidewalk.
The landscaper says that there is no reason for alarm. Plants have an important role, and the poison is a tool for species conservation. In addition to beautiful, the vegetation is crucial to the balance of the environment.
The reporter spoke with Roger Coutinho botanist Ricardo Reis.
Bom Dia Rio - What are the most common plants that are toxic and that are in homes today?
Ricardo Reis - My biggest incentive indeed, as a botanist, is that people actually use the plants normally. Everything we know in botany is a function of having experienced some day, having touched at last to have come into contact with the plants. But doing so responsibly. So, the most common species, we have to know them, know their characteristics. The species with strong colors, such as dumb cane and Tinhorão are most common in homes, causing poisoning. But it also has other bushes, if you have a house, where, as oleander, palm cariota also can also cause harm and the person needs to know not to contact the fruit or the leaves toxic.
How to handle these plants?
There is no need, in my opinion, wearing gloves or anything for these plants more common in homes and sidewalks. Only plants stinging like nettles or case of some plants with many on the leaf surface. Often they have a substance that causes allergy, itching and sometimes even burn it. This is more rare, it is most common plants in vacant lots and the most classic case would be the nettle. These can actually require the use of gloves. But those that we have in the home, you just know the species and not eat them basically because they were not that no contraindication greater.
If ingested by children or animals, what to do?
In fact, this is an issue of medical health. The first step is to know the species, because if you have eaten some fruit with very eye-catching colors, very red, orange fruit, colorful, usually they tend to be poisonous. So if you have eaten a fruit or a leaf of the type dumb cane or sword of St. George the important thing is to tell the doctor what kind of thing you ate, because, for example, in the case of dumb cane, he actually has crystals of calcium oxalate, the toxicidez it is because of this, then how to deal with will be different.
In case of poisoning, it is essential to call the National Network of Information Centers and Toxicological Assistance (Renaciat), the phone 0800-722-6001. The link is redirected pala the toxicological information center nearest you.
Source: Bom Dia Rio
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