L'intoxication par les pesticides chez l'enfant au Maroc : profil épidémiologique et aspects pronostiques (1990-2008)

Achour, Sanae; Khattabi, Asmae; Rhalem, Naïma; Ouammi, Lahcen; Mokhtari, Abdelrhani; Soulaymani, Abdelmajid; Soulaymani-Bencheikh, Rachida

doi:10.3917/spub.113.0195

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“…When we exclude the unintentional cases among children, the mean age among cases of self-harm compared with unintentional poisonings is lower as most often found in other studies. 10,22,23 Female cases were younger in both the urban and rural data, but the difference was only significant for female urban cases of self-harm, whereas female rural cases of self-harm were slightly older than men. Most other studies found female self-harm cases being younger than men.…”

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Characteristics of Pesticide Poisoning in Rural and Urban Settings in Uganda

Pedersen

Ssemugabo

Nabankema³

et al. 2017

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Pesticide poisoning is a significant burden on health care systems in many low-income countries. This study evaluates cases of registered pesticide poisonings treated in selected rural (N = 101) and urban (N = 212) health facilities in Uganda from January 2010 to August 2016. In the urban setting, pesticides were the most prevalent single poison responsible for intoxications (N = 212 [28.8%]). Self-harm constituted a significantly higher proportion of the total number of poisonings in urban (63.3%) compared with rural areas (25.6%) where unintentional poisonings prevailed. Men were older than women and represented a majority of around 60% of the cases in both the urban and rural settings. Unintentional cases were almost the only ones seen below the age of 10, whereas self-harm dominated among adolescents and young persons from 10 to 29 years of age. Organophosphorus insecticides accounted for 73.0% of the poisonings. Urban hospitals provided a more intensive treatment and had registered fever complications than rural health care settings. To minimize self-harm with pesticides, a restriction of pesticide availability as shown to be effective in other low-income countries is recommended. Training of health care workers in proper diagnosis and treatment of poisonings and improved equipment in the health care settings should be strengthened.

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confidence: 91%

Characteristics of Pesticide Poisoning in Rural and Urban Settings in Uganda

Pedersen

Ssemugabo

Nabankema³

et al. 2017

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“…Females may voluntarily intoxicate themselves as a desperate attempt to drown their sorrows, commit abortions or suicide. Females are often the most vulnerable group to suicide attempts (Achour et al, 2011). Above all, accidental poisoning was more frequent; a few cases were intentional, contrary to the findings of a study carried out in Hospitals of the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences where intentional poisoning was quite frequent and reached 51.6% (Saravi, 2013).…”

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“…The age group 16-30 years old was most affected. Similar studies have confirmed the vulnerability of young people to poisons (Achour et al, 2011;Arulmurugan et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2010;Gupta et al, 1998;Oreby et al, 2016). Nevertheless, in a study carried out between 1999 and 2008 in Taiwan, aged males above 65 years old were the most affected group with medicinal drug poisoning (Chien et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 68%

Five year (2013-2017) trends in poisoning among patients of the Buea Regional Hospital, South-West Region (Cameroon)

Nkontcheu¹,

Ngwe-Bell²,

Tchamadeu³

2020

Braz. J. Biol. Sci.

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Millions of people suffer from poisoning worldwide and some die because of complications. The aim of this study was to assess five-year trends in poisoning among patients referred to the Buea Regional Hospital. Data was collected from records in the Emergency Unit, in records from 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2017, using a form designed for the purpose. A total of 335 cases of poisoning were recorded. Twenty-nine (29) types of poisoning agents were recorded; the highest percentage was dog bite (23.28%), followed by food poisoning (18.81%). There was a temporal dynamic in poisoning as the year 2015 had the highest number of cases with percentage of 25.38% while the year 2014 had the lowest number of cases with a percentage of 13.44%. Moreover, the gender was not associated with poisoning as the percentage in males (50.15%) was not significantly (P > 0.05) different from the percentage in females (49.85%). Besides that, the gender did not determine poisoning circumstances (P > 0.05) even though more female were concerned with suicide attempts. Accidental poisoning was significantly (P < 0.001) more common (86.27%) than suicide attempts (13.73%). Based on the marital status, single patients were significantly (P < 0.001) more affected (65.97%) as compared to married ones (34.03%). Additionally, the frequency varied significantly (P > 0.001) in terms of patient's occupation with unemployed being the most affected group (63.28%) as compared to workers (36.72%). Based on ages, the age group (16-30 years) was the most affected (40.90%). Fortunately, the percentage of healed cases (97.91%) was significantly (P < 0.001) higher than the percentages of cases reported dead (2.09%); nevertheless, chronic signs such as immune suppression, cancer, mutation and reduction of reproductive capacities may appear many years later. Inevitably, more studies on poisoning should be made; this will raise the necessity to sensitize populations on poisoning and the need to create poison management centres.

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“…In our country, organophosphate is the most common product involved in child poisoning with industrial products [18], a substance for which, unlike triclopyr and other herbicides, an antidote and management guidelines are available [19].…”

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confidence: 99%