DOI: 10.36106/ijsr/6801357 ISSN:
“THE SIP TO DEATH”- A CASE REPORT OF PARAQUAT POISONING
Parvathy R S, Anilkumar Asokan, Karthika Asokan, Hari Krishnan Somasekaran- General Medicine
- Microbiology (medical)
- Immunology
- Immunology and Allergy
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences
- General Environmental Science
- Automotive Engineering
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- General Medicine
- General Medicine
- General Medicine
- General Medicine
Paraquat ingestion is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in many parts of Asia, the Pacic nations, and the Americas [1]. Poisoning by pesticides is a major problem in low-income and middle-income countries. Paraquat is a toxic bipyridylium herbicide and its ingestion in a small amount can be fatal with toxic effects on the kidney, liver, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs(2 ). No specic antidote is available for this poisoning, and there is a dearth of evidence-based recommendations for the treatment (3). Here we present a patient who was admitted with paraquat poisoning, he had lethal effects of poisoning and met with death.