I am a medical student currently doing a research in toxicology at The Poison Control Center. Today, a 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.
我是醫(yī)學(xué)院的學(xué)生,正在毒物控制中心做毒物學(xué)的研究。今天有一個女人打電話來。她非常不安,因為她發(fā)現(xiàn)她的小女兒在吃螞蟻。我很快地叫她放心,因為螞蟻沒有毒。她不必把孩子帶到醫(yī)院去。她平靜了下來。在談話快結(jié)束的時候,她提到她讓她的女兒吃了一些殺螞蟻的藥來殺掉吃進去的螞蟻。我告訴她,最好馬上帶她的女兒到急診室去。