{"id":418,"date":"2021-08-13T05:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=418"},"modified":"2021-08-13T05:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T05:43:53","slug":"updated-cpg-essential-oil-poisoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-essential-oil-poisoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Essential oil poisoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toxicology Committee updated the existing Victorian CPG <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Essential_Oil_Poisoning\/\">Essential oil poisoning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mucous membrane irritation and gastrointestinal symptoms usually develop first, followed by CNS depression which increases the risk of aspiration pneumonitis<\/li>\n<li>Aspiration pneumonitis is a risk from both the essential oil and from hydrocarbons or emulsifiers that are added to many preparations<\/li>\n<li>Symptoms are specific to the type of essential oil. Contact poisons information for advice if specific ingestant is known<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">For 24 hour advice, contact the Poisons Information Centre 13 11 26<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential oil poisoning is an existing Victorian CPG that will be considered for PIC endorsement in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}