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Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report

Accidental poisoning in children, though underreported in our environment, is common and could prove fatal. It is important to identify the primary chemical agent that is responsible for the poisoning. We present a case of accidental ingestion of fish poisoned with aluminum phosphide (AlP) used as r...

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Autores principales: Shakur, Abubakar Muhammad, Garba, Nuhu Abubakar, Ahmadu, Ibrahim, Apollos, Daniel, Asani, Mustafa O, Aliyu, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520793
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.ajm_156_20
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author Shakur, Abubakar Muhammad
Garba, Nuhu Abubakar
Ahmadu, Ibrahim
Apollos, Daniel
Asani, Mustafa O
Aliyu, Ibrahim
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description Accidental poisoning in children, though underreported in our environment, is common and could prove fatal. It is important to identify the primary chemical agent that is responsible for the poisoning. We present a case of accidental ingestion of fish poisoned with aluminum phosphide (AlP) used as rat poisoning by a 14-month-old girl. At presentation, the actual chemical content of the poison was not available and clinical features were suggestive of organophosphate poisoning. She was commenced on atropine together with other treatment, on which she made remarkable improvement. The atropine was continued with complete resolution of symptoms on the third day of admission. We, therefore, report a serendipitous use of atropine in the management of AlP poisoning with successful outcome.
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spelling pubmed-78392582021-01-29 Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report Shakur, Abubakar Muhammad Garba, Nuhu Abubakar Ahmadu, Ibrahim Apollos, Daniel Asani, Mustafa O Aliyu, Ibrahim Avicenna J Med Case Report Accidental poisoning in children, though underreported in our environment, is common and could prove fatal. It is important to identify the primary chemical agent that is responsible for the poisoning. We present a case of accidental ingestion of fish poisoned with aluminum phosphide (AlP) used as rat poisoning by a 14-month-old girl. At presentation, the actual chemical content of the poison was not available and clinical features were suggestive of organophosphate poisoning. She was commenced on atropine together with other treatment, on which she made remarkable improvement. The atropine was continued with complete resolution of symptoms on the third day of admission. We, therefore, report a serendipitous use of atropine in the management of AlP poisoning with successful outcome. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7839258/ /pubmed/33520793 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.ajm_156_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Avicenna Journal of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Ahmadu, Ibrahim
Apollos, Daniel
Asani, Mustafa O
Aliyu, Ibrahim
Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report
title Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report
title_full Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report
title_fullStr Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report
title_short Accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: A case report
title_sort accidental poisoning with aluminum phosphide presenting with excessive cholinergic symptoms with response to atropine: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7839258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520793
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajm.ajm_156_20
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