Hair dye poisoning and the developing world

Hair dye poisoning has been emerging as one of the important causes of intentional self harm in the developing world. Hair dyes contain paraphenylene-diamine and a host of other chemicals that can cause rhabdomyolysis, laryngeal edema, severe metabolic acidosis and acute renal failure. Intervention...

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Autores principales: Sampathkumar, Krishnaswamy, Yesudas, Sooraj
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Toxicology Update
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2700586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561974
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.50749
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description Hair dye poisoning has been emerging as one of the important causes of intentional self harm in the developing world. Hair dyes contain paraphenylene-diamine and a host of other chemicals that can cause rhabdomyolysis, laryngeal edema, severe metabolic acidosis and acute renal failure. Intervention at the right time has been shown to improve the outcome. In this article, we review the various manifestations, clinical features and treatment modalities for hair dye poisoning.
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spelling pubmed-27005862009-06-25 Hair dye poisoning and the developing world Sampathkumar, Krishnaswamy Yesudas, Sooraj J Emerg Trauma Shock Toxicology Update Hair dye poisoning has been emerging as one of the important causes of intentional self harm in the developing world. Hair dyes contain paraphenylene-diamine and a host of other chemicals that can cause rhabdomyolysis, laryngeal edema, severe metabolic acidosis and acute renal failure. Intervention at the right time has been shown to improve the outcome. In this article, we review the various manifestations, clinical features and treatment modalities for hair dye poisoning. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2700586/ /pubmed/19561974 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.50749 Text en © Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Hair dye poisoning and the developing world
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