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Severe Illness Associated with Eating Mushroom-Containing Chocolate Products - United States, January-October 2024.

open access: yesMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Rumph JT   +16 more
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Plant Poisoning

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2007
Each year over 100,000 exposures to toxic plants are reported to poison centers throughout the United States. Most of these exposures are of minimal toxicity largely because of the fact that they involve pediatric ingestions, which are of low quantity. The more serious poisonings usually involve adults who have either mistaken a plant as edible or have
Blake, Froberg   +2 more
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Nicotinic plant poisoning

Clinical Toxicology, 2009
A wide range of plants contain nicotinic and nicotinic-like alkaloids. Of this diverse group, those that have been reported to cause human poisoning appear to have similar mechanisms of toxicity and presenting patients therefore have comparable toxidromes.
Leo J, Schep   +2 more
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Poisonous plants

2010
A large number of plants can cause adverse effects when ingested by animals or people. Plant toxicity is due to a wide diversity of chemical toxins that include alkaloids, glycosides, proteins and amino acids. There are several notable toxic plants for which a specific chemical responsible for toxicity has not been determined.
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Poisonous plants

2020
Abstract Many plants contain toxic substances—heterogeneous in chemical composition and diverse in toxic effects. When classifying plant poisonings, a pragmatic approach is to look at the main clinical effects, but it should be emphasized that few plant toxins produce just one type of symptom and that symptomatology is often multiple,
Michael Eddleston, Hans Persson
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LIFE-THREATENING PLANT POISONING

Critical Care Clinics, 1997
Each year over 100,000 exposures to toxic plants are reported to poison control centers around the country. This article focuses on the more toxic plant exposures which may result in critical care admissions. The various plants are identified and described. Their mechanism of toxicity, clinical presentation of exposure and a management strategy for the
B, Furbee, M, Wermuth
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Plant poisonings in children

Human & Experimental Toxicology, 1996
1 Plant poisonings comprise 5% of all hospitalizations due to poisonings in children and plant inquiries to Poison Information Centre consist about 28% of calls concerning children. 2 A search of 71 cases of hospitalization due to plants in a 5 year period obtained from two children's hospitals in Helsinki were reviewed and 105 plant inquiries ...
A, Lamminpää, M, Kinos
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