Canton police are trying to find out how Pine-Sol or a similar cleaning substance wound up in an elderly woman's feeding tube.

Police are trying to find out how a Pine-Sol-like substance wound up in an elderly northwest Canton woman’s feeding tube.

Canton Fire Department paramedics brought the 75-year-old Caprice Avenue woman Monday afternoon to Mercy Medical Center, where doctors drawing fluid from her feeding tube noticed a pine scent, said Capt. Dave Davis, who heads the police department’s Detective Bureau.

Believing it to be Pine-Sol or some other pine-scented cleaning substance, detectives submitted it to the local crime laboratory, he said.

The woman was admitted to Mercy Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit.

“Her medical condition is unknown to us right now,” Davis said Tuesday afternoon.

Police reports said the woman was being cared for by family members in her home when the substance was administered through her feeding tube sometime between 11 p.m. Sunday and 1:13 p.m. Monday.

Police notified Adult Protective Service and detectives were looking to talk to her family, Davis said.

The police reports did not say why the woman was on a feeding tube.

The reports listed the incident under investigation as a felonious assault and an accidental poisoning and drug abuse. The report said the unknown chemical is “possibly Pine-Sol.”

Pine-Sol is a powerful cleaning used to clean everything from household grease and grime to soap scum and rust in toilet bowls.

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