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A recent study reports an increase in cases of young children accidentally ingesting nicotine pouches. Nicotine is quite dangerous to young children, said Todd Zimmerman, D.O., a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Pediatrix® Emergency Medicine of Nevada. If you find your young child with a nicotine pouch in their mouth, remove it immediately, he said. “You also want to try and determine how many pouches may have been consumed as a significant ingestion could be potentially life-threatening in younger children,” said Dr. Zimmerman. “If you find your child with a nicotine pouch, whether you think they ingested one or not, you should seek immediate medical care.”
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