In developing countries, accidental poisoning is a serious public health problem in children. But unintentional by parents the form of medication very rare. Ivermectin belongs to group Avermectins and used veterinary medicine use for human parasitic diseases. We report case 10 years old girl given ivermectin her mother an unspecified amount. The patient presented hospital with seizures remained...

We report two cases of unintentional poisoning with anticholinergic agents. The first patient, a 7-year-old girl, was prescribed four different medications by a general practitioner for treatment of abdominal colic and diarrhoea. All drugs had anticholinergic properties. The second patient, a 16-month-old boy, ingested his mother's cyproheptadine tablets. Both children presented with central an...

The volatile oils play an important part in accidental poisoning in childhood, as can be seen from the figures quoted in a recent review (Craig and Fraser, 1953). The purpose of the present paper is to draw attention to the dangers of this form of poisoning, on which the recent literature is scanty, to suggest measures for its treatment and control, and to consider any points which may be appli...

Pesticides are an important hazard in agriculture. In developed countries their use is strictly regulated. Risk assessment for new pesticides includes comparison of the potential exposures of spray operators and other farm workers with a reference value. Usually, this is derived from toxicological studies in animals with allowance for the uncertainties in extrapolating between and within specie...

In Britain overt lead poisoning in childhood is uncommon, though it appears to be common in the industrial areas of the United States of America, where it may account for as many as 79% of childhood deaths due to accidental poisoning (Christian, Celewycz, and Andelman, 1964). A number of cases are probably missed (Mellins and Jenkins, 1955; McLaughlin, 1956) and mild cases undoubtedly go undete...

BACKGROUND Iron poisoning is a major cause of unintentional poisoning death in young children. The US Food and Drug Administration proclaimed a regulation for unit-dose packaging of iron supplements in 1997. OBJECTIVE To determine whether the requirement for unit-dose packaging of iron supplements decreases the incidence of iron ingestion and the incidence of deaths due to iron poisoning in c...

Poisoning is a global problem. Most recent estimate of World Health Organization (WHO) suggests 180 thousands deaths in 2010 due to various poisoning agents (1). Poisoning is relatively less common in children and is mostly accidental than adults. Poisoning account for 16% of bed occupancy in children hospitals and 3.9% in pediatric intensive care unit in India (2-4). Poisoning is predominantly...

BACKGROUND Poisoning is a major problem in the paediatric population. The offending substances used vary from place to place. Information on poisoning trends in India is meagre and there is an impression among clinicians that there has been a change in the commonly used poisons over the years. This retrospective study aimed to determine the pattern of poisoning in children and to study the nati...