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Cooking starch; Laundry starch

For cooking starch:

• Gastrointestinal
  • Intestinal blockage
  • Stomach area pain

For laundry starch:

• Bladder and kidneys
  • Significantly decreased urine output (or none)
• Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
  • Jaundice (eyes become yellow)
• Skin
  • Blisters
  • Bluish skin, lips, or fingernails
  • Flaking skin
  • Yellow skin
• Gastrointestinal
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
• Heart and blood
  • Low blood pressure
  • Convulsions
  • Collapse
  • Fever
• Nervous system
  • Drowsiness
  • Coma
  • Twitching of the facial muscles
  • Twitching of the arms, hands, legs, or feet

Review Date: 05/15/2006
Reviewed By: Eric Perez, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.