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Ideal suicidal poison |
Cheap Easily available Highly toxic Tasteless or pleasant in taste Mix with food , drinks Capable of causing painless death |
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Chronic lead poisoning |
Symptoms:-- Facial pallor Anemia:- basophilic stippling, eosinophilia Lead line: burtonian line Wrist and foot drop. ( lead palsy) Encephalopathy Black foot syndrome Colic and constipation Pure motor neuropathy
Rx:- succimer Ca EDTA + Bal |
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Arsenic poisoning |
Fulminant :--- direct action on heart Acute:- 1) Gastroenteric form Sym:- throat pain, vomiting , purging 2) narcotic form Chronic :-- 1) hair:- golden hair-- alopecia 2) skin :- hyperkeratosis-- Bowen's disease--- BCC 3) Nail: Aldrich meds line 4) bones:- pancytopenia , burnt bones
Dx:-- gastric lavage with hydrated ferric oxide Postmortem :- stomach :- red velvetty Heart :- sub endocardial he. |
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Posionous compounds of arsenic and MOA |
Arsenious oxide/ar senic trioxide/white arsenic Copper arsenite (scheele's green), arsenic acid, sod and k arsenate, arsenic sulphide Arseniuretted hydrogen MOA:-- it interferes with cellular respiration by combining with the sh group of mitochondrial enzymes. Causes it's toxicity by uncoupling Mito. Oxidative posphorylation Target tissue:- vascular endothelium |
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chroinic Poisoning of mercury |
Danbury temors hatter's shake or glass blower's shake Concussion mercurialis Mercuric erethism :- mirror firms Mercurilentis :- brown deposit in eyes Acrodynia or pink disease :- generalized body rash |
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Emetics contraindications |
Severe heart and lungs disease Advanced pregnancy After ingestion of CNS stimulant Same as for stomach wash |
