Acute intoxication with

ethnobotanical at
child
Author : Roș u Eduard Vasile
Co-author : Hristea Răzvan-Daniel

Science coordinating: Asistent universitar Solange Tamara

Roşu
Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie “Gr.T.Popa” Iaşi
 
Introduction
Ethnobotanical acute poisoning in children
determine an acute vital risk.
Substances
 from various plants, ingested or inhaled cause similar
symptoms, those of psychotropic substances.
 Examples :
 •Nymphaea caerulea Sav.
•Acid ibotenic
•Muscimol
•Amanita muscaria (L:Fr.) Lam
•Amanita pantherina
•Ketamina
•Salvia divinorum Epling & Jativa
•Salvinorin A-F
•Tabernanthe iboga (L.) Nutt.
•Ibogaina
The objective
The purpose of this study is to highlight
the features of poisoning in children
ethnobotanical recorded in the Children
Hospital "Santa Maria" Iasi for two
years(2009-2010).

Materials and methods
The study has an descriptive caracter
and follow identification of the next
characteristics: personal (age, sex,
rezidential environment) and temporal
(variations of intoxications number
with ethnobotanical substances on
route of week days and from each
month of the year).
Cercetation
The study is based on analyzing the main
characteristics of the 71 cases presented
in the UPU (Emergency Receiving Unit)
as a result of acute intoxication
ethnobotanical. The data source was a
register Poisoning of UPU, and the
database was done in EXCEL program.
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The spytomes of intoxication with
the ethonobotanicals plants
headache
hallucination
tachycardia
convulsions
enthusiasm
ecstasy
delirium
Headache
Hallucination
Tachycardia
Convulvulus
tricolor
Convulsions
Enthusiasm
Ecstasy
Delirium
Results
Environmental analysis shows
that in rural residence exist
18 cases (25,35%) and in
urban 53 cases (74,64%).
The proportion of
urban/rural is 2,9/1.

Male ? Female ?
Of the 71 poisoned children, 49 were
males ( 69,01% ) and 22 female
(30,98%).
Aprofundation
Cases were aged between 10 and 18 ,
21.12% are in the age group 10-14
years, the remaining 78.87% in the age
group 15-18 years.
Profile
The first case was in March 2009.
Monthly distribution shows the
predominance of cases in first trimester
of the school year and the top was
reached at the weekend.
Ethnobotanical consumer profile
We have established such ethnobotanical
consumer profile: teenager from 15 years
old, male, from urban environment,
which is acute intoxicated at the end of
week, in the first trimester of the school
year.   
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Ehtnobotanical plants
Convulvulus
tricolor
Amanita pantherina Amanita muscaria Salvia divinorum
Conclusions
These findings points out that among
children, the consumption of legal herbs
require complex and urgent preventive
measures, involving family, school and
society to prevent consuming.
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