Rescue 911 - Episode 623 - "Depacote Disaster"

A toddler swallows her sister's seizure medicine. This segment was taken from Episode 623, a third-annual child safety episode, which aired on May 9, 1995 on CBS.

Vote for Rescue 911 to be released on DVD at http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/showinfo.cfm?showID=3531 and to be put back on television at http://www.petitiononline.com/res911/petition.html

Category:

Education

Tags:

• rescue
• 911
• segment
• episode
• 623
• depacote
• disaster
• depakote
• child
• takes
• pills
• medication
• overdose
• poisoning

[ChomuSclavus]

This show is so old, many of the kids are of college age or after now. I wonder if anyone found them on Facebook and messaged them about appearing on the show.

[allgood2000]

Looking them up on facebook would be kind of stalky. Some of them do comment on these videos. The mom in this video was actually the person who requested me to put it up.

[OneThroughTaekwondo]

marlyn is so cute

[vickiormindyb]

You can die in a seizure.

I treated a patient who complained like crazy about having to take Depakote, as if I could change it. I'm a paramedic, not a doctor. She claimed the medicine would damage her liver, which her doctor most likely told her. It's true but also very rare. They only tell you, b/c they have to.

On further examination, I discovered the lady smoked like a chimney. Prolonged nicotine use can affect the liver too, but she didn't have any problem with cigarettes. (?)

[OneThroughTaekwondo]

I know right I mean how could she know the flavor

[OneThroughTaekwondo]

there is

[Jibjub80]

Wow! That's amazing that she pulled through that. Depakote is a horrible drug. My doc used to give it to me, as it is also used as a mood stabilizer, and it made me gain a tremendous amount of weight (thank God I was only on it for a short time). The damn drug can also cause liver failure if you're not careful with it! I think that if I suffered from grand mal epilepsy, I'd rather suffer through seizures than take that damn drug. I feel so bad for that kid. It's a miracle she made it.

[pinkglamgrrl]

the lady should have put sculls on it so it could warn the childern

[blendfan1]

make more

[chrisbrownrulz2]

thetreeregimovies- wen u swallow or chew tablets the coolour leaves a faded colour on ur tongue, the pink would of been hard to see but the tinge would of been there in most cases wen u take a panadol u see a white mark on ya tongue its the same thing.

[vickiormindyb]

Depakote is a time-release medicine, which is why you have to take it at exact times. A chemist I know said the medicine goes into fatty cells and "hides," to be released when the body needs it. The more that hides the more will be released, b/c the cell will reject a higher amount as poison and send it back to the body.

He has a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry, and that's all I could interpret from what he said. Even as a paramedic, I find him difficult to understand.

[LavenderLuver21]

Her tough isn't hot pink retard!