Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure

Eucalyptus oil (EO) is an essential oil that is widely used across the globe as an over‐the‐counter remedy for common ailments. EO‐induced seizure (EOIS) has not been recognized as an entity, and physicians rarely ask the history of exposure to eucalyptus oil when seeing a patient with first episode...

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Autores principales: Mathew, Thomas, Kamath, Vikram, Kumar, R. Shiva, Srinivas, Meghana, Hareesh, Prarthana, Jadav, Rakesh, Swamy, Sreekanta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Short Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29588965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12065
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author Mathew, Thomas
Kamath, Vikram
Kumar, R. Shiva
Srinivas, Meghana
Hareesh, Prarthana
Jadav, Rakesh
Swamy, Sreekanta
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description Eucalyptus oil (EO) is an essential oil that is widely used across the globe as an over‐the‐counter remedy for common ailments. EO‐induced seizure (EOIS) has not been recognized as an entity, and physicians rarely ask the history of exposure to eucalyptus oil when seeing a patient with first episode of seizure. Here we report 10 cases of EO inhalation–induced seizures seen over the past 2 years in three tertiary care hospitals. Eight patients had GTCS and two had CPS. We aim to raise awareness of seizures induced by exposure to eucalyptus oil.
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spelling pubmed-58621192018-03-27 Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure Mathew, Thomas Kamath, Vikram Kumar, R. Shiva Srinivas, Meghana Hareesh, Prarthana Jadav, Rakesh Swamy, Sreekanta Epilepsia Open Short Research Article Eucalyptus oil (EO) is an essential oil that is widely used across the globe as an over‐the‐counter remedy for common ailments. EO‐induced seizure (EOIS) has not been recognized as an entity, and physicians rarely ask the history of exposure to eucalyptus oil when seeing a patient with first episode of seizure. Here we report 10 cases of EO inhalation–induced seizures seen over the past 2 years in three tertiary care hospitals. Eight patients had GTCS and two had CPS. We aim to raise awareness of seizures induced by exposure to eucalyptus oil. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5862119/ /pubmed/29588965 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12065 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Epilepsia Open published by Wiley Periodicals Inc. on behalf of International League Against Epilepsy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Mathew, Thomas
Kamath, Vikram
Kumar, R. Shiva
Srinivas, Meghana
Hareesh, Prarthana
Jadav, Rakesh
Swamy, Sreekanta
Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure
title Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure
title_full Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure
title_fullStr Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure
title_full_unstemmed Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure
title_short Eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: A novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure
title_sort eucalyptus oil inhalation–induced seizure: a novel, underrecognized, preventable cause of acute symptomatic seizure
topic Short Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5862119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29588965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epi4.12065
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