Methyl Bromide Poisoning

Fatal methyl bromide poisoning.

Methyl bromide was commonly used in fire extinguishers in aircraft engines and in submarines during the second world war. Now it is widely used as a fumigant insecticide in grain stores.' 2 Mortality after intoxication by methyl bromide vapour may be high,' and is often associated with convulsions, usually resistant to standard anticonvulsant chemotherapy.' s We wish to draw attention to the co...

Methyl bromide poisoning.

Methyl bromide is a highly volatile liquid which disperses rapidly and readily. As a fumigant it ranks amongst the most efficient because of its extremely effective penetrating power and absence of fire or explosion hazard. It is, unfortunately, highly toxic and poisoning occurs readily in circumstances of careless or inadvertent exposure. Before 1940, only 42 cases of methyl bromide poisoning ...

Treatment of methyl bromide poisoning with haemodialysis.

Acute accidental methyl bromide poisoning was treated with haemodialysis. The treatment was successful in removing bromide from the blood but the patient persists with severe neuropsychiatric sequelae. To the best of our knowledge haemodialysis has not been used previously for the treatment of organic bromide poisoning.

Two Cases of Methyl Bromide Poisoning in Termite Exterminators

It was decided at the 4th meeting of the signatories to the “Montreal Protocol Regarding Restriction of Substances Destroying the Ozone Layer” in 1992 to freeze beginning in 1995 the production and consumption of methyl bromide (CH 3 Br), which is mainly used as a plant quarantine fumigant and a soil fumigant, and to totally abolish it by 2005. Methyl bromide has, however, continued to be used ...

Methyl bromide alternatives evaluated