AMITRAZ POISONING IN CHILDREN - CLINICAL AND LABORATORY FINDINGS OF 8CASES

Amitraz poisoning is a rare disorder characterised by central nervous system and respiratory depression, bradycardia, hypotension, hypotherm ia, hyperglycemia, vomiting, convulsion and glycosuria. In this study, eight pediatric patients with amitraz poisoning were presented. This study revealed that clinical manifestations of poisoning by oral and d ermal route emerged within 30-120 min and that central nervous system depression which is the most important sign resolved with 8-18 h and o thers 36-48 h. All cases were discharged as recovered after 48 h, To o ur knowledge only six cases have been reported in the literature. Beca use of the limited information in the literature, the cases were repor ted.