A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin E
Pyrethroids are one of the most common insecticides and have been known as safe household insecticides. They are highly toxic for insects whereas they are low in toxicity for mammals. Poisoning syndromes occur via oral, dermal or respiratory exposure. Dermal paraesthesia is the most common symptom i...
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| author | Aykut Çağlar Anıl Er Emel Ulusoy Fatma Akgül Dorukhan Besin Hurşit Apa |
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| description | Pyrethroids are one of the most common insecticides and have been known as safe household insecticides. They are highly toxic for insects whereas they are low in toxicity for mammals. Poisoning syndromes occur via oral, dermal or respiratory exposure. Dermal paraesthesia is the most common symptom in cases of unintentional dermal exposure. Although mild dermal paraesthesia cases are commonly seen after occupational exposure, severe cases are rare in the literature. Thus, emergency physicians may have difficulties in terms of managing these patients. Here, we report a child with diffuse paraesthesia and agitation after 24 hours from insecticide exposure. The patient was well treated with topical vitamin E in our pediatric emergency department. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1f33748076a64203ad5afeda2977b84c2023-02-15T16:15:05ZengGalenos YayineviJournal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine2148-73322148-73322020-08-0172899110.4274/cayd.galenos.2019.3702913049054A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin EAykut Çağlar0Anıl Er1Emel Ulusoy2Fatma Akgül3Dorukhan Besin4Hurşit Apa5 Dr. Behçet Uz Pediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Child Emergency, İzmir, Turkey Dr. Behçet Uz Pediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Child Emergency, İzmir, Turkey Dr. Behçet Uz Pediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Child Emergency, İzmir, Turkey Dr. Behçet Uz Pediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Child Emergency, İzmir, Turkey Dr. Behçet Uz Pediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Child Health and Diseases, İzmir, Turkey Dr. Behçet Uz Pediatric Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Child Emergency, İzmir, Turkey Pyrethroids are one of the most common insecticides and have been known as safe household insecticides. They are highly toxic for insects whereas they are low in toxicity for mammals. Poisoning syndromes occur via oral, dermal or respiratory exposure. Dermal paraesthesia is the most common symptom in cases of unintentional dermal exposure. Although mild dermal paraesthesia cases are commonly seen after occupational exposure, severe cases are rare in the literature. Thus, emergency physicians may have difficulties in terms of managing these patients. Here, we report a child with diffuse paraesthesia and agitation after 24 hours from insecticide exposure. The patient was well treated with topical vitamin E in our pediatric emergency department. http://www.caybdergi.com/archives/archive-detail/article-preview/a-child-with-severe-paraesthesia-due-to-pyrethroid/38654 alpha-tocopherolchildcyhalothrinparaesthesiapyrethrins |
| spellingShingle | Aykut Çağlar Anıl Er Emel Ulusoy Fatma Akgül Dorukhan Besin Hurşit Apa A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin E Journal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine alpha-tocopherol child cyhalothrin paraesthesia pyrethrins |
| title | A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin E |
| title_full | A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin E |
| title_fullStr | A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin E |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin E |
| title_short | A Child with Severe Paraesthesia due to Pyrethroid Exposure: Successful Treatment with Topical Vitamin E |
| title_sort | child with severe paraesthesia due to pyrethroid exposure successful treatment with topical vitamin e |
| topic | alpha-tocopherol child cyhalothrin paraesthesia pyrethrins |
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