Anticholinergic delirium following Datura stramonium ingestion: Implications for the Internet age

A case of pediatric age anticholinergic intoxication due to accidental Datura stramonium ingestion admitting with visual hallucination.

Datura stramonium (DS) is a hallucinogenic plant that can produce anticholinergic toxicity because of its significant concentrations of toxic alkaloids, such as atropine, hyoscyamine, and scopolamine. DS grows in both rural and urban areas in Turkey. Clinical findings of toxicity are similar to those of atropine toxicity. DS abuse is common among adolescents because of its hallucinatory effects...

Poisoning by Datura (Stramonium)— Recovery

partaken of a quantity of datura leaves, prepared in the form of curry, with rice, which he afterwards acknowledged to have voluntarily taken. On admission, he lay perfectly unconscious, with severe spasmodic muscular twitchings and stertorous breathing. Skin cool; pulse about 108?, feeble. Pupils dilated and insensible to the effects of light. The stomach pump was immediately introduced, but d...

Datura stramonium poisoning in children.

Although substance abuse is fairly common among adolescents, poisoning from Datura stramonium (a broadleaf annual erect herb with spine-covered seed capsule) is uncommon in children and has not been reported in our locality. We present the case of two children admitted at the Children Emergency Room of a teaching hospital following ingestion of extract of Datura stramonium. They developed neuro...

Purification of the lectin from Datura stramonium.

The lectin from Datura stramonium can be inhibited by oligomers of N-acetylglucosamine. This property was exploited to purify the lectin by affinity chromatography on Sepharosefetuin. The purified lectin is a glycoprotein in having subunits of 40 000 and 45 000 mol.wt.

Jimson weed (Datura stramonium) poisoning in childhood.