Background: Childhood poisoning is a significant international health concern. Very little is known about trends in exposures within schools and preschools. The objectives of this study were to investigate the data recorded by the New Zealand National Poisons Centre (NPC) on these types of exposures over a 21 year period (1989 to 2009) and to determine trends and propose strategies to reduce th...

background: an analysis performed on the collected data from the local drug and poison information centre (dpic) of jundishapur university revealed that stings are the main causes of poisonings with frequency of 56%, followed by drug poisoning in 31%, and chemical exposure poisoning in 5.5% in khuzestan, the southwestern province of iran. objectives: the aim of the present study was to report t...

  Background: Poisoning incidents, in both children and adolescents, are known to occur in New Zealand but little is known about the agents implicated.   Methods: All the calls received over the ten years between 2000 and 2009, by the National Poison Centre in New Zealand, were retrospectively reviewed. Calls related to cases involving those less than 19 years were included. The data were analy...

Acute Methemoglobinemia—A Common Occupational Hazard in an Industrial City in Western India: Aruna DEWAN, et al. Poison Information Centre, Nat ional Inst i tute of Occupational Health (NIOH)—Cases of acute methemoglobinemia reported to the Poison Information Centre at NIOH over a period of six years from 1993 to 1999 were analyzed. Of 1067 acute poisonings, there were 30 cases of acute methemo...

Of 4736 poisoning incidents registered in the Poison Control Centre in Zagreb from 1985 to 1999, household chemicals caused 23%. In the group of cleaning products, 11% of poisoning incidents were caused by corrosives, 9% by liquid detergents and 4% by hypochlorite. Organic solvents caused 18% of household chemical poisonings; among them gasoline and thinners were the most frequent. Cosmetics we...

OBJECTIVE To determine the need of drug and poison information centres in public and private hospitals of Karachi. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at 3 public and 3 private tertiary care hospitals of Karachi, from July 2013 to April 2014, using a self-administered, multi-item questionnaire. Non-probability convenient sampling was used to select the participants. SPSS 18 was us...

Davide Lonati,1 Carlo Alessandro Locatelli,1 Lucia Fenicia,2 Fabrizio Anniballi,2 Paolo Landri,3 Andrea Giampreti,1 Valeria Margherita Petrolini,1 Sarah Vecchio,1 Luigi Manzo1 1Pavia Poison Center and National Toxicology Information Centre Toxicology Unit, IRCCS Maugeri Foundation and University of Pavia; 2Department of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, National Reference Centre for Bot...

Objective To describe an outbreak of lead poisoning among opium users in the Islamic Republic of Iran and estimate the number of affected people in the country. Methods We used data from the country's largest poison treatment centre to illustrate the epidemiology of an outbreak of lead poisoning in oral opium users. We describe the government's referral and treatment guidelines in response to...

The Croatian national Poison Control Centre, a health service founded in 1974 by the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health in Zagreb, provides a 24-hour telephone guidance for poisoning emergencies, information and consultations on toxic exposure for occupational health physicians, professional and public health education in toxicology and poison control and other poison preven...