Accidental haloperidol poisoning in children

Haloperidol, a butyrophenone neuroleptic drug, is an antipsychotic used in the treatment of adult schizophrenia and mania. It is used in children with neurological disorders like chorea and developmental disorders such as hyperactivity. With the advent of newer selective neuroleptics use of haloperi...

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Autores principales: Gajre, Mona P., Jain, Dimple, Jadhav, Alka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3523515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248417
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.103307
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description Haloperidol, a butyrophenone neuroleptic drug, is an antipsychotic used in the treatment of adult schizophrenia and mania. It is used in children with neurological disorders like chorea and developmental disorders such as hyperactivity. With the advent of newer selective neuroleptics use of haloperidol is now on decline. However, in adults it is still the preferred drug especially in resource challenged settings. Extrapyramidal reactions occur frequently with haloperidol predominantly as parkinsonian symptoms. There are few case reports of accidental haloperidol poisoning in children and this one of them.
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spelling pubmed-35235152012-12-17 Accidental haloperidol poisoning in children Gajre, Mona P. Jain, Dimple Jadhav, Alka Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Haloperidol, a butyrophenone neuroleptic drug, is an antipsychotic used in the treatment of adult schizophrenia and mania. It is used in children with neurological disorders like chorea and developmental disorders such as hyperactivity. With the advent of newer selective neuroleptics use of haloperidol is now on decline. However, in adults it is still the preferred drug especially in resource challenged settings. Extrapyramidal reactions occur frequently with haloperidol predominantly as parkinsonian symptoms. There are few case reports of accidental haloperidol poisoning in children and this one of them. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3523515/ /pubmed/23248417 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.103307 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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