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Mercury poisoning caused by Chinese folk prescription (CFP): A case report and analysis of both CFP and quackery

BACKGROUND: Though as a heavy metal, mercury has a long history in the culture of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Also until now, we can still find evidence of mercury in some Chinese folk prescriptions (CFP)s in China. CASE: We report a case of a 35-year-old rural woman, who took almost 35 g of...

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Autores principales: Mo, Tingting, Sun, Si, Wang, Yongyi, Luo, Dong, Peng, Bin, Xia, Yinyin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5591097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27858849
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000005162
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author Mo, Tingting
Sun, Si
Wang, Yongyi
Luo, Dong
Peng, Bin
Xia, Yinyin
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Peng, Bin
Xia, Yinyin
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description BACKGROUND: Though as a heavy metal, mercury has a long history in the culture of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Also until now, we can still find evidence of mercury in some Chinese folk prescriptions (CFP)s in China. CASE: We report a case of a 35-year-old rural woman, who took almost 35 g of Hg(2)O orally to treat her itchy skin followed a folk prescription of an unlicensed practitioners engaging in quackery (UPEQ), which lead to dark red bloody stool and mucus, nausea, and numbness. She sought help from some general hospitals, which brought her only misdiagnosis. Only after a mercury level test conducted by Chongqing Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases (CPOD) confirmed her mercury intoxication, she was treated with chelation therapy with sodium dimercaptosulphonat and showed significant improvements. CONCLUSION: Confused by differences between TCM and CFP, people might take dangerous remedies without realizing the consequences; not only could it exacerbate their primary disease, but it could lead to unexpected and disastrous results.
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spelling pubmed-55910972017-09-15 Mercury poisoning caused by Chinese folk prescription (CFP): A case report and analysis of both CFP and quackery Mo, Tingting Sun, Si Wang, Yongyi Luo, Dong Peng, Bin Xia, Yinyin Medicine (Baltimore) 6600 BACKGROUND: Though as a heavy metal, mercury has a long history in the culture of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Also until now, we can still find evidence of mercury in some Chinese folk prescriptions (CFP)s in China. CASE: We report a case of a 35-year-old rural woman, who took almost 35 g of Hg(2)O orally to treat her itchy skin followed a folk prescription of an unlicensed practitioners engaging in quackery (UPEQ), which lead to dark red bloody stool and mucus, nausea, and numbness. She sought help from some general hospitals, which brought her only misdiagnosis. Only after a mercury level test conducted by Chongqing Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases (CPOD) confirmed her mercury intoxication, she was treated with chelation therapy with sodium dimercaptosulphonat and showed significant improvements. CONCLUSION: Confused by differences between TCM and CFP, people might take dangerous remedies without realizing the consequences; not only could it exacerbate their primary disease, but it could lead to unexpected and disastrous results. Wolters Kluwer Health 2016-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5591097/ /pubmed/27858849 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000005162 Text en Copyright © 2016 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 4.0, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even for commercial purposes, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
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Mercury poisoning caused by Chinese folk prescription (CFP): A case report and analysis of both CFP and quackery
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title_full_unstemmed Mercury poisoning caused by Chinese folk prescription (CFP): A case report and analysis of both CFP and quackery
title_short Mercury poisoning caused by Chinese folk prescription (CFP): A case report and analysis of both CFP and quackery
title_sort mercury poisoning caused by chinese folk prescription (cfp): a case report and analysis of both cfp and quackery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5591097/
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