Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy

Selenium is a micronutrient. It presents a nutritional conundrum because of its twin status as an essential as well as a highly toxic trace element. Here, we report a case of acute non-intentional selenium toxicity due to increased ingestion of “paradise nuts” (Lecythis ollaria) which resulted in ma...

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Autores principales: Senthilkumaran, Subramanian, Balamurugan, Namasivayam, Vohra, Rais, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah
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/PMC3681114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23766617
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.111206
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author Senthilkumaran, Subramanian
Balamurugan, Namasivayam
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description Selenium is a micronutrient. It presents a nutritional conundrum because of its twin status as an essential as well as a highly toxic trace element. Here, we report a case of acute non-intentional selenium toxicity due to increased ingestion of “paradise nuts” (Lecythis ollaria) which resulted in massive alopecia.
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spelling pubmed-36811142013-06-13 Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy Senthilkumaran, Subramanian Balamurugan, Namasivayam Vohra, Rais Thirumalaikolundusubramanian, Ponniah Int J Trichology Case Report Selenium is a micronutrient. It presents a nutritional conundrum because of its twin status as an essential as well as a highly toxic trace element. Here, we report a case of acute non-intentional selenium toxicity due to increased ingestion of “paradise nuts” (Lecythis ollaria) which resulted in massive alopecia. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3681114/ /pubmed/23766617 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.111206 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Trichology 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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Senthilkumaran, Subramanian
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Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy
title Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy
title_full Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy
title_fullStr Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy
title_full_unstemmed Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy
title_short Paradise Nut Paradox: Alopecia Due to Selenosis from a Nutritional Therapy
title_sort paradise nut paradox: alopecia due to selenosis from a nutritional therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3681114/
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