BACKGROUND Acute poisoning in children is a major preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. However, there is a wide variation in patterns of poisoning and related risk factors across different geographic regions globally. This hospital based case-control study identifies the risk factors of acute unintentional poisoning among children aged 1-5 yea...

Background Children that livingwith addicted parents are at risk for intentionally and unintentionally poisoning. Present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parental addiction on unintentional childhood poisoning. Materials and Methods: Totally, 140 admitted children with poisoning in Loghman hospital, Tehran-Iran, as referral center were recruited from March 2013 to July 2014. Cases were ma...

Unintentional poisoning is the most common challenge during childhood age. Among them organophosphate, commonly used insecticide agent related to in children. Organophosphate causes up 25% of mortality worldwide. The present article discusses case a 3 year old child with accidental intake organophosphate revealing symptoms experienced by patient and different treatment modalities employed its o...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between deprivation and hospital admission rates for unintentional poisoning, by poisoning agent in children aged 0-4 years. DESIGN Cross sectional study of routinely collected hospital admissions data. SETTING East Midlands, UK. PARTICIPANTS 1469 admissions due to unintentional poisoning over two years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Hospital admission rat...

unintentional drug intoxication is still a major cause of morbidity and mortality in young children. in order to study the epidemiological pattern of childhood drug poisoning in golestan province, all cases diagnosed with poisoning from 1997 to 2002 in the only pediatric hospital in province were recruited. during this period 563 cases of poisoned children were hospitalized in taleqani hospital...

According to unevenly epidemiologic studies on health outcomes in Iran, some adverse outcomes such as poisoning especially in children less noticed. We were interested to write some childhood poisoning factsheets to provide easy to understand information on pitfalls and challenges around epidemiologic measures, etiology and prevention in this context. Valid evidences about childhood poisoning i...

OBJECTIVE To identify main risk factors for unintentional childhood poisoning in Ahwaz, Iran and to suggest possible causes and preventative measures. METHODS This is an epidemiological description and a case-control study. The study was undertaken in Ahwaz, Iran in 1996-1997. Cases were 100 children who were taken to one of the 17 Accident and Emergency Departments due to poisoning. For ever...

BACKGROUND Poisoning in toddlers and infants is almost always unintentional due to their exploratory behavior, which is different from adults. The prevalence and background of childhood poisoning in Qatar is still unknown. The aim of this study is to explore the extent of childhood poisoning in Qatar and, specifically, to describe the frequency of poisoning as a cause of Accident & Emergency (A...

OBJECTIVES To identify child or family related risk factors for unintentional childhood poisoning in Greece and to explore whether product specific poisonings might have special features that make them amenable to preventive interventions. SETTING A case-control study was undertaken in Athens, Greece in 1995. Cases were 100 consecutive children brought with poisoning to the emergency clinics ...

background children that livingwith addicted parents are at risk for intentionally and unintentionally poisoning. present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parental addiction on unintentional childhood poisoning. materials and methods: totally, 140 admitted children with poisoning in loghman hospital, tehran-iran, as referral center were recruited from march 2013 to july 2014. cases were ma...