El uso de desinfectantes durante la COVID-19 y su impacto en la salud. Revisión Bibliográfica.

Introduction: In December 2019, the Hubei province in Wuhan, China, became the epicenter of an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown causes. On January 7, Chinese authorities announced that they had identified a new type of coronavirus (New Coronavirus, 2019-nCoV). Subsequently, in March 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that the new 2019 Coronavirus disease can be characterized as a pandemic. From that moment until today, the antitoxic centers of the world began to report an increase in poisonings from cleaning products, especially at the expense of disinfectants. Objective: Describe the health effects of the use of disinfectants during COVID-19. Methodological Design: a bibliographic review was carried out on the health effects of the frequent use of disinfectants during COVID-19, starting with the increase in consultations for acute poisoning with cleaning products in the country. Conclusions: There was an increase in visits to poison control centers for acute poisonings related to household products. This increase is a consequence of the frequent use of disinfectants by the population due to COVID-19. The harmful effects on health were mainly related to conditions of the respiratory, digestive and skin systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]