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Ciguatera Fish Poison: A Cholinesterase Inhibitor
Science, 1965The substance responsible for the poisoning effect of ciguatera poison from fish is an anticholinesterase. In rats, mice, and rabbits ciguatera poison causes death by asphyxiation. Protopam chloride with atropine is an effective antidote.
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EKG findings of ciguatera fish poisoning
Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022C. Milam, B. Joseph., L. MenkinSmith
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Neurology, 2002
Ciguatera poisoning (CP) is worldwide the most common fish-borne illness and one of the most common forms of nonbacterial food poisoning. IV mannitol is considered the treatment of choice for CP but has not been evaluated in a double-blind randomized trial.A prospective clinical study of 50 patients with CP on Rarotonga, Cook Islands, was conducted to ...
Hans, Schnorf, M, Taurarii, T, Cundy
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Ciguatera poisoning (CP) is worldwide the most common fish-borne illness and one of the most common forms of nonbacterial food poisoning. IV mannitol is considered the treatment of choice for CP but has not been evaluated in a double-blind randomized trial.A prospective clinical study of 50 patients with CP on Rarotonga, Cook Islands, was conducted to ...
Hans, Schnorf, M, Taurarii, T, Cundy
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American family physician, 1994
Ciguatera fish poisoning is the most common foodborne illness related to fin fish consumption and is endemic throughout the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific regions. The clinical picture is characterized by a variety of gastrointestinal, neurologic and, occasionally, cardiovascular symptoms.
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Ciguatera fish poisoning is the most common foodborne illness related to fin fish consumption and is endemic throughout the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific regions. The clinical picture is characterized by a variety of gastrointestinal, neurologic and, occasionally, cardiovascular symptoms.
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Severity rating scales for ciguatera fish poisoning
Toxicon, 1993Severity of ciguatera fish poisoning is often quite variable. Two symptom check list rating scales were developed for quantifying illness severity and for selectively monitoring response to therapy in patients with chronic toxicity. Content validity was ascertained, and internal consistency reliability was demonstrated by means of the Cronbach alpha ...
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Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Treatment with Intravenous Mannitol
Tropical Doctor, 1991Intravenous mannitol was given to 16 patients with acute ciguatera fish poisoning requiring hospital admission. Thirteen patients (81%) presented with sensory and neuromuscular symptoms; paraesthesiae and pain and weakness in the lower limbs were predominant features.
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Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in the Virgin Islands
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981To the Editor.— The prominence afforded the problem of ciguatera by the publication of "Ciguatera Fish Poisoning in Miami" by Lawrence et al (1980;244:254) and by two editorials on the topic in the same issue is belated but heartening recognition by a major medical journal of a widespread disease that has attracted little general attention.
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Climate Change and Marine and Freshwater Toxins, 2020
H. Farrell, G. Kohli, S. Murray
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H. Farrell, G. Kohli, S. Murray
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Ciguatera fish poisoning: origins, pathophysiology and management
ToxiconRichard J. Lewis
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