In the Soup: Caustic Ingestion from the Improper Consumption of a Self-Heating Soup

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" In the Soup: Caustic Ingestion from the Improper Consumption of a Self-Heating Soup "
Hanson, Matthew; Hafner, John William

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	934086
Doc. No	:	LA8kr8m5zc
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Hanson, Matthew; Hafner, John William
Title & Author	:	In the Soup: Caustic Ingestion from the Improper Consumption of a Self-Heating Soup [Article]\ Hanson, Matthew; Hafner, John William
Title of Periodical	:	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
Volume/ Issue Number	:	13/5
Date	:	2012
Abstract	:	We present a caustic ingestion case from the improper preparation of a self-heating soup can. A 54 year old man cut apart a self-heating canister of OnTech® Hillside Tomato soup and consumed the calcium oxide heating material with the soup. He presented to the ED with odynophagia and pharyngeal irritation. A normal chest radiograph, and computed tomography (CT) scan of chest, and several normal laboratory studies were obtained. Emergent esophagogastroduodenoscopy was performed due to worsening symptoms despite narcotic analgesia. This is the first known case of its kind, where a self-heating chemical agent was mixed with food and ingested. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(5):426-428.]