- A&D Ointment, Desitin
- Ashes (fireplace or charcoal)
- Baby products cosmetics – except inhaled powder
- Ballpoint pen inks
- Body conditioners (moisturizing lotion)
- Calamine lotion
- Candles (beeswax or paraffin)
- Chalk (calcium carbonate)
- Clay (modeling)
- Cold pack
- Corticosteroids – oral or topical (single acute exposure)
- Crayons (marked A.P., C.P.)
- Dehumidifying packets (silica or charcoal)
- Deodorants – personal
- Elmer’s Glue
- Fishbowl additives
- Glycerin
- Gums
- Hand lotions and creams
- Indelible markers (not aniline dyes)
- Lanolin
- Latex paint
- Lip balm (Blistex, Chapstick)
- Lipstick
- Magic Markers
- Magnesium silicate
- Makeup (eye, liquid facial)
- Mylar balloons (caution: foreign body)
- Newspaper
- Oral contraceptives – excluding iron –containing tablets
- Paste
- Pencil (lead-graphite, coloring)
- Petroleum jelly (Vaseline)
- Plaster of Paris
- Play-Doh
- Polaroid picture coating fluid
- Porous-tip ink marking pens
- Potting soil (unfertilized)
- Putty (small amount)
- Shampoo- nonmedicated
- Silica gel
- Silly Putty (99% silicones)
- Styrofoam
- Suntan preparations (unless allergy to PABA or fragrances)
- Super glue (except topical, on lips or eyelids)
- Sweetening agents (saccharin, aspartame)
- Teething rings (water-? Sterility)
- Toothpaste (without fluoride)
- Vaseline
- Water colors
- Zinc oxide
As always, if there are any questions, call the MTPC.
I am interested in any questions that you would like answered in “Question of the Week”. Please e-mail me with any suggestions.
Donna Seger, M.D.
Medical Director, Middle Tennessee Poison Center