Acute poisoning with a rat bait
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A 62-year old man was admitted to the emergency station with symptoms of nausea and vomiting. He admitted to having ingested rat poison bait in a suicide attempt. The patient’s medical history indicated an earlier suicide attempt in 2003. No psychiatric treatment had followed. A blood sample of the patient together with a sample of blue rat tralyl has therefore been rated as extremely toxic (T+) in the German Toxic Substance Act. The toxicity data for coumatetralyl and coumatetralyl-containing rat poison baits in various forms of application are summarized in Table 1.
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