A 27-year-old robust man, without any medical and surgical history, attempt
ed to commit suicide by consumption of 300 cc (44.1%, 132.3 g) basagran(TM)
, a readily available herbicide. This poisoning resulted in vomiting, fever
, sweating, pipe-like muscle rigidity, sinus tachycardia, drowsiness, leuko
cytosis, rhabdomyolysis and hepatorenal damage.
Emperical treatment with bromocriptine was temporally associated with resol
ution of above signs and symptoms. His clinical presentations and the effec
t of bromocriptine may be indicative that basagran(TM) poisoning mimicks ne
uroleptic malignant syndrome.