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Cow dung powder poisoning
Cow dung, which has germicidal property, was used in ancient days to clean living premises in South India. Nowadays, people are using commercially available synthetic cow dung powder. It is locally known as “saani powder” in Tamil Nadu. It is freely available in homes and is sometimes accidentally c...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687181/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26730123 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169357 |
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| author | Sherfudeen, Khaja Mohideen Kaliannan, Senthil Kumar Dammalapati, Pavan Kumar |
| author_facet | Sherfudeen, Khaja Mohideen Kaliannan, Senthil Kumar Dammalapati, Pavan Kumar |
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| description | Cow dung, which has germicidal property, was used in ancient days to clean living premises in South India. Nowadays, people are using commercially available synthetic cow dung powder. It is locally known as “saani powder” in Tamil Nadu. It is freely available in homes and is sometimes accidentally consumed by children. It is available in two colors - yellow and green. Cow dung powder poisoning is common in districts of Tamil Nadu such as Coimbatore, Tirupur, and Erode. We report two cases of yellow cow dung powder poisoning from our hospital. |
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| spelling | pubmed-46871812016-01-04 Cow dung powder poisoning Sherfudeen, Khaja Mohideen Kaliannan, Senthil Kumar Dammalapati, Pavan Kumar Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Cow dung, which has germicidal property, was used in ancient days to clean living premises in South India. Nowadays, people are using commercially available synthetic cow dung powder. It is locally known as “saani powder” in Tamil Nadu. It is freely available in homes and is sometimes accidentally consumed by children. It is available in two colors - yellow and green. Cow dung powder poisoning is common in districts of Tamil Nadu such as Coimbatore, Tirupur, and Erode. We report two cases of yellow cow dung powder poisoning from our hospital. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4687181/ /pubmed/26730123 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169357 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
| spellingShingle | Case Report Sherfudeen, Khaja Mohideen Kaliannan, Senthil Kumar Dammalapati, Pavan Kumar Cow dung powder poisoning |
| title | Cow dung powder poisoning |
| title_full | Cow dung powder poisoning |
| title_fullStr | Cow dung powder poisoning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cow dung powder poisoning |
| title_short | Cow dung powder poisoning |
| title_sort | cow dung powder poisoning |
| topic | Case Report |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687181/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26730123 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.169357 |
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