Treatment of methyl bromide poisoning with haemodialysis.

Successful Treatment of Ethylene Glycol Poisoning with Haemodialysis

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 ...

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...

An Epidemiologic Study on Methyl Alcohol Poisoning in Tehran, Iran

Background: In Iran, methyl alcohol poisoning rarely occurs accidentally and usually occurs through abuse of contaminated ethanol. However, with proper and timely treatment complications and mortality of methanol poisoning can be prevented. In this study, the epidemiological profile of methanol poisoning in the Iranian society was investigated. Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study...

Three cases of acute methyl bromide poisoning in a seedling farm family.

We encountered three patients (Patient I: 39-year-old man, Patient II: 34-year-old woman, and Patient III: 5-year-old girl) with acute methyl bromide poisoning, which had occurred as a result of exposure to the gas that leaked from methyl bromide cans stored in a warehouse of a seedling farm. Since all three patients exhibited almost the same initial symptoms, i.e., severe vomiting, tonic convu...