Lessons to be learned: a case study approach Unseasonal severe poisoning of two adults by deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)

Authors
Southgate, HJ Egerton, M Dauncey, EA
Citation
Hj. Southgate et al., Lessons to be learned: a case study approach Unseasonal severe poisoning of two adults by deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), J R SOC P H, 120(2), 2000, pp. 127-130
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science
Journal title
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH
ISSN journal
14664240 → ACNP
Volume
120
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
127 - 130
Database
ISI
SICI code
1466-4240(200006)120:2<127:LTBLAC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Unseasonal, mid-winter, severe poisoning by deadly nightshade is reported i n two adults who simultaneously ate from a pie made of frozen deadly nights hade berries, mistaken at the time of picking for bilberries. Atropine leve ls are reported in the urine. Physostigmine treatment was ineffective.