Toxic Reactions after Paraldehyde

Intramuscular Paraldehyde

Toxic Reactions and Side Effects

Although effective in maintaining relatively normal levels of blood pressure in hypertensive patients and retarding some of the serious and fatal secondary consequences of the disease, hexamethonium ion and 1-hydrazinophthalazine can cause severe immediate and late reactions. The latter drug has produced collagen diseases of varying degrees of severity, all of which have regressed on cessation ...

Potentiation of Paraldehyde Hypnosis by Tolbutamide.

Beaser (1958) has recorded that prior administration of tolbutamide produces an intolerance to alcohol in the form of hot flushes. Disulfiram produces such an intolerance in a more marked· way. Keplinger and· Wells (1957) have reported that disulfiram prolongs the hypnotic effect of paraldehyde in mice. Hence it is possible that tolbutamide may have some action on paraldehyde anaesthesia analog...

Effect of Intramuscular Paraldehyde in Chorea

P., Hindu female child, aged 9 years, was admitted to the Children's Ward. Complaints :?Choreic movements, duration 10 days. On examination.?Violent choreic movements involving the whole body. Temperature normal, pulse rate 90, and irregular respiratory movements with an average rate of 20 per minute. Tonsils enlarged and epitrochlear glands palpable. Tendon jerks diminished. Abdominal reflex l...

The reactions of Pygosteus pungitius L. to toxic solutions.