Disinfectant Poisoning during COVID-19 pandemic in Mashhad Medical Sciences Hospitals

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Master's Student, Student Research Committee, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

3 Ph.D. of Environmental Health Engineering, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

4 Student Research Committee, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.

10.22038/mjms.2025.88196.5017

Abstract

Background: During the coronavirus epidemic, the excessive use of disinfectants and chemicals increased the resulting poisoning. The following study was conducted to investigate the poisoning of people in Mashhad hospitals.
Methods: The study is a cross-sectional descriptive study and carried out by collecting information from the files of patients from 2016 to 2016 and completing the checklist prepared.
Results: This study shows that of the total number of people (2840 people) from the four hospitals, 3.5% related to 1997, 2.4% related to 1998 and 74.5% related to the year 99 and 19.5 percent is related to the year 1400. This shows that in the two years of the corona epidemic, especially in the first year,, the number of poisoned people has increased. From the total statistics obtained, 51.6% of those poisoned are male and 48.4% are female.
Conclusion: The results show that the largest number of people poisoned with chemicals and disinfectants is related to 157 people who were poisoned with organic solvents. The highest prevalence of poisoning is related to age groups under 5 years , ages between 10 to 20 years and ages 5 to 10 years, Based on the results, initially the highest number (158 people) of poisoning with chemicals, disinfectants and disinfectants was related to substances such as ethanol, methanol, benzene, ketones and other organic solvents, and in the second group (68 people), poisoning with detergent and soaps are placed. In the third group (about 55 people), they are poisoned by petroleum products.

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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 69, Issue 3
May 2026
Pages 261-272

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