Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy

Vitamin A supplementation program where single high-dose vitamin A supplements are provided to the qualified (infants and children) at regular intervals is operational in Nigeria as a public health initiative to control vitamin A deficiency which is prevalent in our country in accordance with the WH...

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Autores principales: Babatola, Adefunke Olarinre, Olatunya, Oladele Simeon, Ogundare, Ezra Olatunde, Ajite, Adebukola Bidemi, Oluwayemi, Isaac Oludare, Thomas, Awolowo Anthony, Taiwo, Adekunle Bamidele, Fatunla, Odunayo Adebukola, Komolafe, Akinwumi Kolawole, Alfred, Airemionkhale
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31372061
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S212848
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author Babatola, Adefunke Olarinre
Olatunya, Oladele Simeon
Ogundare, Ezra Olatunde
Ajite, Adebukola Bidemi
Oluwayemi, Isaac Oludare
Thomas, Awolowo Anthony
Taiwo, Adekunle Bamidele
Fatunla, Odunayo Adebukola
Komolafe, Akinwumi Kolawole
Alfred, Airemionkhale
author_facet Babatola, Adefunke Olarinre
Olatunya, Oladele Simeon
Ogundare, Ezra Olatunde
Ajite, Adebukola Bidemi
Oluwayemi, Isaac Oludare
Thomas, Awolowo Anthony
Taiwo, Adekunle Bamidele
Fatunla, Odunayo Adebukola
Komolafe, Akinwumi Kolawole
Alfred, Airemionkhale
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description Vitamin A supplementation program where single high-dose vitamin A supplements are provided to the qualified (infants and children) at regular intervals is operational in Nigeria as a public health initiative to control vitamin A deficiency which is prevalent in our country in accordance with the WHO recommendations. Reports of symptomatic acute hypervitaminosis A are scarce. We report a case of acute hypervitaminosis A resulting from accidental ingestion of vitamin A supplement capsules. This is to reiterate the need for caregivers to keep drugs out of the reach of children. Clinicians should also have a high index of suspicion.
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spelling pubmed-66281902019-08-01 Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy Babatola, Adefunke Olarinre Olatunya, Oladele Simeon Ogundare, Ezra Olatunde Ajite, Adebukola Bidemi Oluwayemi, Isaac Oludare Thomas, Awolowo Anthony Taiwo, Adekunle Bamidele Fatunla, Odunayo Adebukola Komolafe, Akinwumi Kolawole Alfred, Airemionkhale Int Med Case Rep J Case Report Vitamin A supplementation program where single high-dose vitamin A supplements are provided to the qualified (infants and children) at regular intervals is operational in Nigeria as a public health initiative to control vitamin A deficiency which is prevalent in our country in accordance with the WHO recommendations. Reports of symptomatic acute hypervitaminosis A are scarce. We report a case of acute hypervitaminosis A resulting from accidental ingestion of vitamin A supplement capsules. This is to reiterate the need for caregivers to keep drugs out of the reach of children. Clinicians should also have a high index of suspicion. Dove 2019-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6628190/ /pubmed/31372061 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S212848 Text en © 2019 Babatola et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
spellingShingle Case Report
Babatola, Adefunke Olarinre
Olatunya, Oladele Simeon
Ogundare, Ezra Olatunde
Ajite, Adebukola Bidemi
Oluwayemi, Isaac Oludare
Thomas, Awolowo Anthony
Taiwo, Adekunle Bamidele
Fatunla, Odunayo Adebukola
Komolafe, Akinwumi Kolawole
Alfred, Airemionkhale
Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy
title Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy
title_full Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy
title_fullStr Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy
title_full_unstemmed Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy
title_short Acute hypervitaminosis A misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old Nigerian boy
title_sort acute hypervitaminosis a misdiagnosed as malaria in a 7-year-old nigerian boy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6628190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31372061
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S212848
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