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Calcium hydroxide
Alternative Names
Hydrate - calcium; Lime milk; Slaked lime
Symptoms
- Lungs
- Breathing difficulty (from inhalation)
- Throat swelling (which may also cause breathing difficulty)
- Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Severe pain in the throat
- Severe pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue
- Loss of vision
- Gastrointestinal
- Severe abdominal pain
- Vomiting
- Burns in the esophagus (food pipe)
- Vomiting blood
- Blood in the stool
- Heart and blood
- Hypotension (low blood pressure) develops rapidly
- Collapse
- Too much or too little acid in the blood (leads to organ damage)
- Skin
- Irritation
- Burn
- Necrosis (holes) in the skin or underlying tissues
Review Date: 05/08/2006
Reviewed By: Janeen R. Azare, PhD, MSPH, Department of Medicine, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. Review provided by
VeriMed Healthcare Network.

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