Survival after strychnine poisoning: A case report

N. Karthik Rao; Vinod C. Nayak; Ranjit Immanuel James; Navin Patil; Raghavendra Rao; Chaitan Jaunky; Talha Ahmed

Survival after strychnine poisoning: A case report

N. Karthik Rao
, Vinod C. Nayak
, Ranjit Immanuel James
, Navin Patil^*
, Raghavendra Rao
, Chaitan Jaunky
, Talha Ahmed

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Strychnine poisoning has a very uncommon occurence. Strychnine, brucine and loganin constitue the active principles of Strychnine nux vomica. Nowadays the poisoning is most commonly due to adulteration with narcotics. Hereby we present a case of 23 year old male, who had consumed nux vomica seeds accidentally (made decoction and he drank it) and developed abnormal behaviour, stiffness, hyper-reflexia and was treated conservatively with anti convulsants (symptomatic management). Eventually he survived and got discharged after 8 days of admission.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1769-1771
Number of pages	3
Journal	Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences
Volume	7
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 01-01-2016

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General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics(all)

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