A Case of Lead Poisoning due to a Mixture of Talisman Ash

BACKGROUND: Lead is a metal that has no biological function useful for the human body. In Korea, non-occupational exposure to lead has mostly occurred through taking oriental medicine. However, in this paper we report a case of lead poisoning caused by ingesting talisman material. CASE PRESENTATION:...

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Autores principales: Ye, Han Hui, Jeong, Jae Uk, Baek, Nak Joon, Choi, Chang Yul, Jeon, Man Joong, Sakong, Joon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-4374-25-37
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author Ye, Han Hui
Jeong, Jae Uk
Baek, Nak Joon
Choi, Chang Yul
Jeon, Man Joong
Sakong, Joon
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Jeong, Jae Uk
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description BACKGROUND: Lead is a metal that has no biological function useful for the human body. In Korea, non-occupational exposure to lead has mostly occurred through taking oriental medicine. However, in this paper we report a case of lead poisoning caused by ingesting talisman material. CASE PRESENTATION: A 16-year-old male patient complained of severe abdominal pain after taking cinnabar, a talisman material. He was diagnosed with lead poisoning accompanied by acute hepatitis. We confirmed that the cinnabar the patient took contained about 10% elemental lead. After symptom management, the patients’ symptoms, liver function test results, and blood lead concentration level improved. CONCLUSION: Lead poisoning can be accompanied by hepatitis, although rarely. As we have confirmed that cinnabar as a talisman material is harmful to the human body, measures to prevent its misuse are needed.
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spelling pubmed-39233382014-02-14 A Case of Lead Poisoning due to a Mixture of Talisman Ash Ye, Han Hui Jeong, Jae Uk Baek, Nak Joon Choi, Chang Yul Jeon, Man Joong Sakong, Joon Ann Occup Environ Med Case Report BACKGROUND: Lead is a metal that has no biological function useful for the human body. In Korea, non-occupational exposure to lead has mostly occurred through taking oriental medicine. However, in this paper we report a case of lead poisoning caused by ingesting talisman material. CASE PRESENTATION: A 16-year-old male patient complained of severe abdominal pain after taking cinnabar, a talisman material. He was diagnosed with lead poisoning accompanied by acute hepatitis. We confirmed that the cinnabar the patient took contained about 10% elemental lead. After symptom management, the patients’ symptoms, liver function test results, and blood lead concentration level improved. CONCLUSION: Lead poisoning can be accompanied by hepatitis, although rarely. As we have confirmed that cinnabar as a talisman material is harmful to the human body, measures to prevent its misuse are needed. BioMed Central 2013-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3923338/ /pubmed/24472628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-4374-25-37 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ye et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 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. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2052-4374-25-37
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