Pesticide poisoning accidental

You and your children can be exposed to 1,4-di chlorobenzene in your home if you use products such as 1,4-dichlorobenzene-treated toilet bowl cleaners or mothballs containing 1,4-dichlorobenzene. You should not let your child play with or drink toilet bowl water that has been treated with 1,4-di chlorobenzene. Do not let your children rub mothballs or cleaners containing 1,4-di chlorobenzene on their skin. Because 1,4-di chlorobenzene may be found in the home as a pesticide and bathroom deodorizer and in mothballs, these items should be stored out of reach of young children to prevent accidental poisonings. Always store household chemicals in their original labeled containers never store household chemicals in containers children would find attractive to eat or drink from, such as old soda bottles. Keep your Poison Control Center s number by the phone. 

The amount of the pesticides present in different autopsled tissues received from fatal cases of poisoning have been estimated quantitatively in our laboratory. In accidental poisoning cases where vapors of insecticides are inhaled, no insecticide is likely to be detected in the stomach or intestine but considerable amounts may be detected in the lungs, brain, and blood. 

Treatment. Since the most common circumstance of accidental poisoning is exposure to pesticide spray or spillage, contaminated clothing should be removed and the skin washed. Gastric lavage is needed if any of the substance has been ingested. Attendants should take care to ensure that they themselves do not become contaminated. 

The transfer of pesticides to beverage containers also appears amongst cases of accidental poisoning, and may have particularly disastrous sequelae, especially in the case of paraquat. Decanting paraquat into soft drink or beer bottles has featured in New Zealand paraquat fatalities. The addition of both a stenching agent and an emetic in paraquat formulations was introduced to minimize unintentional exposures of this nature. 

In cholinergic syndromes, the presenting signs and symptoms are related to the build-up of acetylcholine (ACh) in the voluntary and autonomic nervous systems and the characteristic toxidrome has been described for many years. Most cases have been following pesticide exposure or pesticide self-poisoning, but there is also information about accidental and deliberate release of nerve agents. 

Available records Indicate that worldwide each year, there are about 1,000,000 accidental human poisonings and about 20,000 human deaths (50). In the U.S. there are 20,000 reported human pesticide poisonings and about 35 reported fatalities each year (Blondell,... 

Symptoms of endosulfan poisoning have been seen in some people who were exposed to very large amounts of this pesticide during its manufacture. Symptoms of endosulfan poisoning have also been seen in people who intentionally or accidentally ate or drank large amounts of endosulfan. Most of these people experienced convulsions or other nervous system effects. 

Data recorded in Tables III and IV shows the amount of the insecticide in the unchanged form. However, most of the tissues also contain the metabolite of the insecticide. From the above discussion it is evident that the study of the distribution of pesticides in different tissues and body fluids can help in resolving the questions of how and when the pesticide was administered. Furthermore, the clue regarding the nature of poisoning whether suicidal, homicidal or accidental can also be obtained by careful study of the distribution pattern of the insecticides in body tissues and fluids derived by quantitative TLC. 

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