Officials say two men in Georgia who have suffered from psychiatric problems ingested household chemicals in an effort to protect themselves against COVID-19, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Gaylord Lopez, director of the Georgia Poison Center, told the newspaper that a man was hospitalized on Saturday after he claimed to have ingested 16 ounces of bleach in a bid “to prevent COVID.”
“He said that he took 16 ounces,” Lopez said. “I don’t know very many patients who will take 16 ounces, but then again, it is a psych history patient.”
Lopez said the man was later transported to a psychiatric ward and has since been released.
The director said another man had also been hospitalized after drinking Pine-sol mixed with mouthwash, beer and pain medication.
It’s unclear, Lopez said, whether the two men had tried ingesting the cleaners after listening to remarks President Trump made about disinfectants at a press conference last week.
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Two men in Georgia drank disinfectants in efforts to prevent COVID-19, officials say https://t.co/pV6V8ANIOE pic.twitter.com/u3ukHZShuB
— The Hill (@thehill) April 28, 2020
A man told Kansas officials he gulped down the disinfectant “because of the advice he’d received” https://t.co/aFv5ZBYbCN
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 28, 2020
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