Analysis of toxic plant and mushroom poisoning in children

Abstract

Aim: The aim is to evaluate geographical, sociodemographic, laboratory, clinical features and follow-up and treatment outcomes ofchildren with toxic plant and mushroom poisoning.Material and Methods: From 2015 to 2017, cases aged between 1 month and 18 years and diagnosed with toxic plant and mushroompoisoning were retrospectively evaluated.Results: The mean age of the patients was 6.0±3.2 and the male/female ratio was 2.8. Mushrooms were the most common factorsfor poisoning (36.8%). The average time for application to the health facility was 2.4±1.9 hours. Poisoning was most commonly seenin summer (42.1%) and the most common complaint was vomiting. Most of the family members were primary school graduates.Treatment methods were activated charcoal (53%), activated charcoal and gastric lavage (26%), gastric lavage, activated charcoaland acetyl cysteine (11%) and acetyl cysteine (5%). One patient (5%) was applied followed up. Extracorporeal treatment was appliedto two patients who developed liver and renal failure during treatment and follow-up. During the laboratory comparisons before andafter hospitalization, white blood cell, creatinine kinase, aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase levels were foundto be significant (p