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A two-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from a soft drink bottle in the garage that his father had filled with mineral turpentine. He coughed and spluttered at the time and vomited once. He is now alert and playing, afebrile, with a respiratory rate of 30 per minute, oxygen saturation of 97% on air and a clear chest. His father is anxious that the poison is still inside him and asks for something to get it out. Which one of the following is the most appropriate management?