What Are the Symptoms of Antifreeze Poisoning?

@991321 Get thee to a doctor! The poisoning from metabolites is delayed. I wonder if a herbalist would be able to help clean your blood, but go to a hospital or see your regular doctor if you will. A blood flush, dialysis might be in order.

Polyethylene glycol is the safe alternative to ethylene glycol. It is antifreeze and also the primary ingredient in simple green and some eyedrops. Once I drank what I thought was ginger ale since that's what the label said, but it was really Simple Green, or polyethylene glycol. I called Simple Green and they said I needn't worry but I might get the runs. So look for it at your auto parts store. Polyethylene glycol works and won't kill you.

Two years ago I divorced my husband after a 20 year abusive marriage. About a month ago I accepted and ate a plate of food that he brought to my house not paying enough attention to the lime green colored juice in the salsa. A few hours later and well into the next day I suffered from extreme vomiting and diarrhea. Two days later my left kidney (I had surgery on it 15 years ago) began to hurt really bad. Since then I have changed to a healthier diet and started working out.

What is confusing to me is that it's been three weeks and I can still taste and smell small traces of the poison. This morning, I vomited five times most of it was thick and yellow. Is it possible for some of the symptoms to return three weeks later?

My husband gave me antifreeze. He did it for years in small amounts and it caused heart disease as well as kidney problems. I was sick a lot. He put me in the hospital twice. The last time, in August, 2012 when I almost died, I finally left him. He has himself locked away in a Veteran's home faking mental illness. Nothing will happen to him. If I did report him, I would seem like the crazy one.

He had planned my "suicide' down to a science, but I lived. If the doctors do not check for metabolites, they will never find the antifreeze. I found lots of evidence of his bad acts after he moved out. I found needles containing antifreeze, notes, life insurance policies and a book he downloaded onto my kindle. The book was about committing suicide. I had a miserable life with him, but he always seemed so nice so I stayed. I just want to kill him.

Most people know they should be careful not to spill antifreeze when they are filling their cars with the coolant, and they know to clean up any spills when they happen. They also know about storing the unused antifreeze so that kids and animals will not get to it.

What many people don't know is that antifreeze that has run through your car is just as deadly and just as much of a danger as fresh antifreeze. You would think that old dirty antifreeze would not be something that kids or animals would think of putting in their mouths, but they do.

Antifreeze leaks are more likely to cause poisoning than spills because we are more likely to immediately clean up the spills.

Because of all the cases of accidental antifreeze poisoning in dogs and cats, companies that make antifreeze have begun adding something new to the products. I can't remember whether they are adding something to change the taste or the smell or both, but I did read that they are trying to make antifreeze less attractive for animals to drink.

I think this additive also makes antifreeze easier to detect in humans.

I saw a TV show about a real life wife who used antifreeze poisoning to kill her husband. According to the show, antifreeze is difficult to detect when doctors do tests and most people who die from this type of poisoning never know what happened to cause the sickness.

This is also supposed to be one of the most painful ways to die. The article mentions that some people have used antifreeze to commit suicide. I definitely don't understand why you would want to drink something that is going to affect your body the way antifreeze does and cause so much pain. There are easier and quicker ways to die if that's what you have your mind set on.