Acute barium intoxication following ingestion of soap water solution

We present a rare case in which a young girl ingested a solution of a hair-removing soap. The ingestion resulted in profound hypokalemia and severe acidosis leading to flaccid paralysis, respiratory arrest and ventricular arrhythmias. Ultimately the patient made complete recovery. The soapwas found...

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Autores principales: Joshi, Nandita, Sharma, Chhavi Sarabpreert, Sai, Sharma, Jai Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3610463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23559738
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.106513
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description We present a rare case in which a young girl ingested a solution of a hair-removing soap. The ingestion resulted in profound hypokalemia and severe acidosis leading to flaccid paralysis, respiratory arrest and ventricular arrhythmias. Ultimately the patient made complete recovery. The soapwas found to contain barium sulfide. The degree of paralysis and acidosis appeared to be directly related to serum potassium levels.
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spelling pubmed-36104632013-04-04 Acute barium intoxication following ingestion of soap water solution Joshi, Nandita Sharma, Chhavi Sarabpreert Sai, Sharma, Jai Prakash Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report We present a rare case in which a young girl ingested a solution of a hair-removing soap. The ingestion resulted in profound hypokalemia and severe acidosis leading to flaccid paralysis, respiratory arrest and ventricular arrhythmias. Ultimately the patient made complete recovery. The soapwas found to contain barium sulfide. The degree of paralysis and acidosis appeared to be directly related to serum potassium levels. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3610463/ /pubmed/23559738 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.106513 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine 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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