Children younger than 5 are at greatest risk for unintentional poisonings. Children in low-income situations are particularly vulnerable for exposures to potential poisons. Focus groups were conducted at a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program located in a large urban public hospital in New York City to gain information from low-income parents of young children about real and perceived bar...

Loperamide is an over-the-counter antidiarrheal with opioid-receptor agonist properties. Recommended over-the-counter doses (range = 2-8 mg daily) do not produce opioid effects in the central nervous system because of poor oral bioavailability and P-glycoprotein efflux* of the medication (1); recent reports suggest that large doses (50-300 mg) of loperamide produce euphoria, central nervous sys...

Synthetic "designer drugs" with hallucinogenic properties have become increasingly popular among recreational drug users in recent years. Some of the designer drugs are chemically modified drugs previously used in treatment of depression and chronic fatigue. The drugs are available from a large number of internet distributers. There is very little knowledge of the clinical symptoms and how into...

Poisoning by the vesicating coleoptera is of rare occurrence, and as I cannot find any account of it having ever happened with this particular beetle, would desire to place the following case on record : Private W. W., previously a healthy man, was brought to hospital at 4 a.m. of 29th July, with symptoms which at once gave rise to suspicion of irritant poison. He had severe pain in the stomach...

Four hundred and seventy-two cases of poisoning were seen over a two-year period in Kandy, Ceylon. The overall mortality was 23 7 %. The pattern of poisoning was different from that in western countries in that 49 8 % of the cases weie due to insecticide poisoning and only 10 7 % were due to drugs, including barbiturates. Insecticides accounted for 73.2% and drugs for only 4 5% of the 112 fatal...

PURPOSE To demonstrate the value of poison control data as an adjunct to national drug abuse surveys and a source of data to inform and focus prevention efforts. METHODS National Poison Data System (NPDS) data are collected and compiled in real time by the 60 US poison centers as callers seek guidance for poison exposures. Demographic, geographic, product, outcome, and treatment-site data for...

Fernando G.S.L. Brandão, 2 Michal Horodecki, 4 Jonathan Oppenheim, Joseph M. Renes, 7 and Robert W. Spekkens Departamento de F́ısica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, 117543 Singapore Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdansk, 80-952 Gdansk, Poland Nati...

Poison message failure propagation is a mechanism that has been responsible for large scale failures in both telecommunications and IP networks: Some or all of the network elements have a software or protocol ‘bug’ that is activated on receipt of a certain network control/management message (the poison message). This activated ‘bug’ will cause the node to fail with some probability. If the netw...

Poison ivy, Toxicodendron radicans, and poison oaks, T. diversilobum and T. pubescens, are perennial woody species of the Anacardiaceae and are poisonous, containing strong allergens named urushiols that cause allergic contact dermatitis. Poison ivy is a species distributed from North America to East Asia, while T. diversilobum and T. pubescens are distributed in western and eastern North Ameri...