Hair dye: An emerging suicidal agent
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Hair Dye- an Emerging Suicidal Agent: Our Experience
Hair dye poisoning has been emerging as one of the important causes of intentional deliberate self harm. To study the epidemiology of patients who consumed Super Vasmol (a commonly used commercial hair dye), profile of patients referred to the ENT department, to find the effectiveness of supportive therapy and to compare between the tracheostomy and the non tracheostomy group, a retrospective s...
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Hair dye ingestion is a rare cause of toxicity in Pakistan. We are presenting the case report of a 55 year old male who presented with accidental hair dye ingestion and developed laryngeal oedema requiring emergent tracheostomy. He had also developed aspiration pneumonitis and chemical oesophagitis. However, the most alarming manifestation was rhabdomyolysis. Hair dye toxicity can be fatal if n...
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INTRODUCTION Dye containing paraphenylene diamine is not an uncommon cause of renal failure in South India. However, there are very few published reports on renal lesions associated with hair dye ingestion. MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 30 consecutive cases (24 males and 6 females) of hair dye induced renal failure seen at our department. All the patients were aged between 18 to 40 years (2...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0971-9903
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9903.151738