How to handle after taking the wrong acid?

Acid is a very powerful chemical and highly toxic, it only takes 5 seconds to cause scary burns and after 30 seconds, it will fully promote its terrible effects.

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The fact that Tran Tan Phat of Vietnam Got Talent 2014 took the wrong drink instead of drinking water during the magic show that took place last night 11/1 made the public buzz by this dangerous and rare mistake. Many people ask how dangerous it is to drink the wrong acid?

According to Prof. Le Nam - Director of the National Institute of Burns, said: if you take the acid badly, the patient will have bleeding immediately, acid infiltrates into the blood causing necrosis and death of cells in the esophagus and stomach thick leads to perforation.

The performance that contestant Tran Tan Phat mistakenly drank acid instead of the country at the night of Got Talent 11/1

"Deaths are usually due to concentrated acids on the digestive organs, causing necrosis and perforation , " Professor Nam said.

On many documents, there are usually 3 types of strong inorganic acids that often cause burns: sulfuric acid (H ₂ SO ₄ ), nitric acid (HNO ₃ ) and hydrochloric acid (HCl).

These are all powerful oxidizing acids, especially in concentrated concentrations, which will cause rapid burns and injuries if exposed directly to the skin.

Acid can cause severe burns in just 5 seconds (Artwork)

According to experts, due to strong oxidizing properties, when acting on the body, acid destroys tissue structure such as skin, fat, tendons, muscles . causing necrosis from outside to follow the mechanism of protein freezing of the body .

Depending on the type of acid as well as the acid burn in the contact location, we can split into many levels of burns. But no matter what level of burns they cause, they are harmful to health and leave a lifelong sequela for the victim.

According to Prof. Le Nam, the first thing to handle when taking the wrong acid is to drink plenty of filtered water to dilute the acidity of the stomach to avoid the most serious harm, because the dilution of stomach acid is very important. important to avoid injury at this agency.

He also said that treating patients who drink acid must depend on the case and consistency of the acid.

If the victim has not swallowed acid into the stomach but spits it out, the acid will only burn the mouth and lips. The mucosal part of the burned area will be necrotic but will quickly recover completely if treated aggressively for 10 days and the patient can be discharged.