Scombroid poisoning, also called histamine fish poisoning, is an allergy-like form of food poisoning that continues to be a major problem in seafood safety. The exact role of histamine in scombroid poisoning is not straightforward. Deviations from the expected dose-response have led to the advancement of various possible mechanisms of toxicity, none of them proven. Histamine action levels are u...

Background: Poisoning cases is a significant contributor to mortality and morbidity all over the world. Acute poisoning cases form one of the commonest causes of emergency hospital admissions. Material and methods: It is a retrospective study of 106 poisoning cases admitted in M.A.P.I.M.S., which is a tertiary health care centre Results: The incidence of poisoning poison was insecticide/ rodent...

Introduction: Regarding the high rate of depression in our society, using anti-depressive drugs especially tricycle antidepressants (TCAs) is increasing and poisoning by these agents has become more common than other drugs. Due to its incident and dire complications we decided to study the treatment quality in poisoned patients with TCAss admitted in emergency ward of Arak,s Vali-e-Asr Hospit...

introduction:poisoning is a common reasons for hospitalization in all over the world and exhausts a substantial share of health resources.khoramabad is a rather large city in iran but there has been no study about incidence of poisoned patients especially grave ones who are hospitalized in icus, thus we designed this study to epidemiologicall assess these patients in two major referral centers ...

Objective: Acute poisoning is considered as an important health problem leading to admission of children. Also, the epidemiologic surveillance specific for each country is necessary. Therefore, we conducted this study to obtain the epidemiological information on poisoning in Nemazee Hospital, a referral center in South of Iran. Methods: In this cross sectional study, we determined age, sex, pre...

background:death due to acute poisoning is of medical, legal and social significance. this study was designed to investigate lethal poisonings among dead bodies referred to a regional office of iranian legal medicine organization (ilmo). methods:this was a retrospective descriptive-analytical study on dead bodies referred to fars province regional office of ilmo in shiraz, iran, during april 20...

Background Children that livingwith addicted parents are at risk for intentionally and unintentionally poisoning. Present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parental addiction on unintentional childhood poisoning. Materials and Methods: Totally, 140 admitted children with poisoning in Loghman hospital, Tehran-Iran, as referral center were recruited from March 2013 to July 2014. Cases were ma...

OBJECTIVE Despite the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation over the past 30 years, agriculture is one of the largest economic sectors in China and the unregulated use of pesticides result in extensive pesticide poisoning. The objective of this study was to analyse pesticide poisoning cases registration received by Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China. DESIG...

Background: Acute poisoning is considered a major health problem worldwide and is a frequent cause of hospital admission. It is estimated that poisons are responsible for more than 1 million illnesses worldwide annually. Objective: To evaluate retrospectively the pattern of acute poisoning in teaching hospital, northwest Ethiopia. Materials and methods: This was an observational, retrospective ...