Datura stramonium L. poisoning in a geophagous child: a case report

Datura stramonium L. (DS) is a wild-growing plant widely distributed and easily accessible. It contains a variety of toxic anticholinergic alkaloids such as atropine, hyoscamine, and scopolamine. Voluntary or accidental ingestion can produce severe anticholinergic poisoning. We report an unusual cas...

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Autores principales: Bouziri, Asma, Hamdi, Asma, Borgi, Aida, Hadj, Sarra Bel, Fitouri, Zohra, Menif, Khaled, Jaballah, Nejla Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3128847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676236
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-31
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author Bouziri, Asma
Hamdi, Asma
Borgi, Aida
Hadj, Sarra Bel
Fitouri, Zohra
Menif, Khaled
Jaballah, Nejla Ben
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description Datura stramonium L. (DS) is a wild-growing plant widely distributed and easily accessible. It contains a variety of toxic anticholinergic alkaloids such as atropine, hyoscamine, and scopolamine. Voluntary or accidental ingestion can produce severe anticholinergic poisoning. We report an unusual case of DS intoxication occurring in a geophagous young child after accidental ingestion of the plant. Our case is original because of the young age of the victim and the underlying geophagia facilitating the occurrence of poisoning.
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spelling pubmed-31288472011-07-06 Datura stramonium L. poisoning in a geophagous child: a case report Bouziri, Asma Hamdi, Asma Borgi, Aida Hadj, Sarra Bel Fitouri, Zohra Menif, Khaled Jaballah, Nejla Ben Int J Emerg Med Case Report Datura stramonium L. (DS) is a wild-growing plant widely distributed and easily accessible. It contains a variety of toxic anticholinergic alkaloids such as atropine, hyoscamine, and scopolamine. Voluntary or accidental ingestion can produce severe anticholinergic poisoning. We report an unusual case of DS intoxication occurring in a geophagous young child after accidental ingestion of the plant. Our case is original because of the young age of the victim and the underlying geophagia facilitating the occurrence of poisoning. Springer 2011-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3128847/ /pubmed/21676236 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-4-31 Text en Copyright ©2011 Bouziri et al; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Datura stramonium L. poisoning in a geophagous child: a case report
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