Poisonous houseplants

Many lovers of indoor flowers sometimes do not even suspect that the house is a poisonous plant. Some plants are dangerous for young children, pets and birds. In the juice of such plants contain substances that can cause irritation, rashes, allergies and even poisoning. Therefore, if you have small children or pets, it is better not to buy poisonous plants at all. Let's look at what houseplants are the most toxic to humans.

1. Plants family kutrovyh are considered deadly poisonous indoor plants, dangerous for humans and animals. These include adenium, oleander and others. Just one small leaf of indoor oleander , trapped in the human gastrointestinal tract, can lead to death.
2. Begonia . Its leaves contain oxalic acid, which can cause burns on the skin. If the begonia sheet gets into the mouth, nausea or irritation of the throat may occur. Especially poisonous tubers begonia.
3. Plants of the Aralian family: ivy, fatsia, aukuba, shefflera, and also polisias. All of them are capable of causing an allergy or indigestion.
4. Poisonous house plants of the family of euphorbia: spurge, jatropha, acalifa, croton contain a toxic substance that causes burns of the skin and mucous membranes. Taking care of such plants, one should guard their eyes, as the juice strongly irritates the mucous membrane up to various changes in the cornea. But the ficus juice can cause dermatitis, eczema or even an attack of bronchial asthma.
5. The plants of the Solanaceae family are considered poisonous: nightshade, bromelia, and decorative pepper. These flowers contain a toxic substance that causes indigestion or cough.

Precautionary measures

It should be remembered that only the aboveground parts of the plant are dangerous, and if the flower has a poisonous tuber, then if it is not digged, it will not harm anyone. When transplanting or cuttings of poisonous houseplants, rubber gloves must be worn. Do not rub your face with your hands to prevent the juice from entering your eyes or mouth.

If the trouble does happen and you have a poisonous plant on the skin or mucous membranes, you should urgently take such measures:

1. Rinse affected area with running water and soap. When poisonous juice enters the eyes, they should be washed under a stream of water for 10-20 minutes.
2. If a person has swallowed juice or a piece of a poisonous plant, you should try to remove the poison from the gastrointestinal tract: drink activated charcoal, induce vomiting.
3. In case of severe poisoning with rapid heartbeat, convulsions or loss of consciousness, you should promptly call for emergency help.
4. In no case with such poisoning can not give a man milk. This can further worsen his condition, since milk sometimes even intensifies the action of toxins.

List of indoor plants, poisonous for domestic cats and dogs, is huge. But most often the animal feels what kind of greens it can eat, and which one can not. The most dangerous for domestic animals are the poisonous houseplants of the family of aroids and euphorbia: diffenbachia, monsters, croton and others. To your cat does not eat up green house plants, try sprinkling their leaves with lemon juice, which the cats do not like. However, if this does not help, then the deadly poisonous houseplant should be removed from the house.

For parrots, the same indoor plants are poisonous as for cats. To your pet could not get to such a plant, the cage with it should be set far away from the flowers.

Far from all the poisonous indoor flowers represent such a serious danger. Most of them can have only minor troubles in the form, for example, of a slight reddening of the skin. And, nevertheless, when buying a new houseplant, you need to get as much information about it as possible.