According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mercury is among one of ten substances that represent a significant health problem. Contamination environment with and its compounds possible through natural artificial ways from ill-conceived or deliberate actions. These include human consumption mercury-contaminated seafood fumes released during...

dear editor,   a 35-year-old man presented with severe headache and left sided hemiparesis since one day prior to admission. he reported frequent bouts of oral and genital aphthous ulcers, an attack of deep venous thrombosis of left lower extremity, one episode of right knee arthritis, and several attacks of headache, neck rigidity, and fever. he had been a victim of mustard-gas poisoning at th...

background: it is introduced that unintentional childhood poisoning can be as result of child home environment and characteristics of parents. this study aimed at quantifying the adjusted population attributable risk percentage of risk factor of unintentional childhood poisoning.  materials and methods: the hospital based case- control included 140 consecutive poisoned children who admitted to ...

BACKGROUND In recent times poisoning with agricultural chemicals either accidental or suicidal has become common due to easy availability and low cost. So it has become essential to find out the burden of poisoning to the victims, family and to hospital and morbidity and mortality among the victims. AIMS To determine the trends of poisoning along with various parameters such as mode of poison...

RESUME. Despite the fact that opioids do not have direct nephrotoxicity, a significant overdose, or their combination with alcohol and other psychotropic substances, contributes to development of critical changes in many organs systems body, which leads, particular, acute kidney injury (AKI). Aim. Using comparative analysis Kaplan-Meier method, investigate survival rates patients opioid drug po...

OBJECTIVES To report the frequency and clinical outcomes of Amanita phalloides poisoning in the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, and the treatments used (including silibinin). DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS Retrospective case series of patients admitted to public hospitals in Canberra and Sydney for suspected A. phalloides poisoning between 1999 and 2012 (identified from hospit...

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of pesticide poisoning in South Korea and the relevant epidemiologic characteristics. During the period of 1996–2005, an approximate average of twenty-five hundred fatalities occurred per year due to pesticide poisoning, while age-standardized mortality rates by pesticide poisoning significantly increased from 4.42 to 6.42 per 100,000 popula...

Background: Intentional and unintentional poisoning is a frequently occurred injury in childhood throughout the world, which is a common reason for referrals to hospital and affecting children health profoundly. There are different patterns of poisoning due to substantial differences in socioeconomic and cultures in different countries regions, which may influence the principle of prevention an...

background: acute drug poisoning remains an important public health problem and represents the second most frequent accidental disease in children. in this study, we identified epidemiological and clinical features of children admitted for acute drug poisoning and related factors associated with suicidal poisoning. methods: we conducted a retrospective study in the department of pediatrics, the...

Poisoning is a global problem. Most recent estimate of World Health Organization (WHO) suggests 180 thousands deaths in 2010 due to various poisoning agents (1). Poisoning is relatively less common in children and is mostly accidental than adults. Poisoning account for 16% of bed occupancy in children hospitals and 3.9% in pediatric intensive care unit in India (2-4). Poisoning is predominantly...