Affiliation:
1. Pesticide Monitoring Unit, National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Centre), West Midlands Poison Unit, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH, UK
Abstract
1 Between 1989 and 1991, 121,708 children less than 10 years old attended 22 Accident and Emergency (A & E) Departments in the UK as a result of an accident at home; 6,478 of these were cases of suspected poisoning. 2 Two hundred and fifty (124 boys and 126 girls) of 6,478 cases involved pesticides. Forty two per cent of these children were thought to have been poisoned by rodenticides, 33% by a different animal poison, 13% by an herbicide or fungicide, 7% by creosote and 5% by mothballs; a pattern similar to that observed in previous years. 3 Fifty-seven of 250 children (23%) were admitted to hospital. The proportion of children admitted to hospital between 1989 and 1991 is smaller than that observed between 1982-1988 (37%). Forty-six per cent of children were discharged home within one day and 95% within 2 days, whereas between 1982 and 1988 only 35% of children were discharged within one day. No child died during the study confirming the low morbidity. 4 Using these data we estimate that between 1989 and 1991 approximately 1,500 children annually attended an A & E Department in the UK with a diagnosis of suspected pesticide poisoning and that some 350 children were admitted each year.
Subject
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Toxicology,General Medicine
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