Background: Poisoning exposure continues to be an important public health concern in many developing countries and a major cause of morbidity mortality Egypt. The information released by the Poison Control Center Ain Shams University Hospitals (PCC-ASUH) is mostly trigger for increasing hazards challenging community. Aim: To evaluate severity poisoning exposures among patients presented PCC-ASU...

Self-poisoning may be deliberate or accidental (as in most paediatric cases and many cases of drug abusers who overdose on their drugs of abuse). Either type of self-poisoning may be fatal, although the vast majority are non-fatal, particularly in children. Poisoning by some drugs can produce characteristic clinical syndromes (toxidromes) that may assist in determining to what a patient has bee...

BACKGROUND Acute poisoning is a major public health issue in many parts of the world. The epidemiology and the mortality rate is higher in low and middle income countries, including Sri Lanka. The aim of this study was to provide details about the epidemiology of acute poisoning in a rural Sri Lankan district and to identify the changing patterns and epidemiology of poisoning. METHODS A prosp...

Colchicine poisonings are serious and highly fatal conditions that occur as a result of food poisoning from plants that contain this alkaloid or overdose with drug containing colchicine. The leaves of edible wild garlic because of their similarity are often replaced with highly poisonous leaves of autumn crocus, causing poisoning. Described are two cases of food poisoning with Colchicum autumna...

Acute poisoning with medicines in Brazil has various causes, including a deficient national drug policy. The current study thus aimed to analyze socioeconomic variables, prescription characteristics, and forms of purchase or acquisition and storing of medicines by victims of acute unintentional poisoning. The data were collected during home visits to patients with a record of acute unintentiona...

Background: Acute poisoning is a common medical emergency. This study was designed to investigate the pattern of drug utilization, poisoning agents, and outcome in patients with acute poisoning treated at a tertiary care teaching hospital in Vadodara, west of India. Methods: This prospective cross sectional drug utilization study was carried out on patients with diagnosis of acute poisoning ad...

The trends in self-poisoning rates and in rates of prescribing of the major drug groups were compared. Over the period 1981-91, barbiturate prescribing and self poisoning both fell by 80%; for antidepressants, prescribing increased by over 40% and self poisoning by 30%; for antipsychotics, both rose by 30%; for benzodiazepines, poisoning fell by 30% and prescribing by 20%. Even for analgesic dr...

OBJECTIVE Acute Poisoning in children is still an important public health problem and represents a frequent cause of admission in emergency units. The epidemiological surveillance specific for each country is necessary to determine the extent and characteristics of the problem, according to which related preventive measures can be taken. METHODS The present retrospective study describes the e...

Background: Methadone is a synthetic opioid that has been used to relieve severe pain in addiction withdrawal. Unfortunately, due to non-standard supply and storage, the incidence of poisoning and deaths caused by this drug is increasing daily. The purpose of this study was to determine the underlying causes of methadone poisoning in children admitted to Kerman Afzalipour Hospital, Kerman Unive...