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A 3-year-old girl weighing 15 kg is brought in one hour after swallowing tablets from her mother's iron bottle. Each tablet contains 65 mg of elemental iron and ten tablets cannot be accounted for. She vomited once in the car and is now alert, with a heart rate of 110, warm peripheries and a soft abdomen. Her abdominal radiograph shows no radio-opaque tablets. Which one of the following is the most appropriate management?