COMMA OF UNCLEARED CAUSE AS A DIAGNOSTIC PROBLEM. CASE REPORT OF ACCIDENTAL PESTICIDE POISONING
Abstract
Pesticide is used in agriculture, but their non-competent usage can cause adverse effect on people and animals. There are numerous clinical states and symptoms which can give clinical image similiar to pesticide poisoning, with vagal symptoms as a vertigo, weariness, nausea, vomiting, headache, pain in abdomen and musles. That is why diagnosis of accidental pesticide poisoning is difficult. The base for establishing of diagnosis is information that the person was in contact with pesticide, confirmed by laboratory and toxicological analysis. In some cases pesticide poisoning can not be proved by laboratory methods. In these cases history of disease and clinical examination can help in establishing of diagnosis.
Keywords
pesticide; accidental poisoning; cholinesterase
DOI: 10.5457/ams.v37i2.18