1. Ipecac can leave you throwing up for hours.

2. Emetics to induce vomiting, such as syrup of ipecac although first aid manuals now advise against inducing vomiting.

3. If you take ipecac when you're overly sleepy and your gag reflex isn't working well, you can turn a manageable overdose into something much worse.

4. A bitter-tasting crystalline alkaloid, C29H40N2O4, derived from ipecac root and used in the treatment of amebiasis and as an emetic.

5. One, syrup of ipecac, is a fluid that helps the body expel material from the stomach.

6. A doctor might prescribe a drug to bring your heartbeat back under control and try to induce vomiting with ipecac, pump your stomach or absorb the toxin with ingested charcoal.

7. You might also include emergency phone numbers, snake bite kits, ipecac, charcoal tablets or other items in your home first aid kit.

8. Not only did they not vomit as they should have done, more so with the ipecac, they actually stopped.

9. But a leading medical organization no longer advises parents to keep syrup of ipecac.

10. It turns out that the patient is bulimic and has been abusing ipecac for years.