Abstract:Background: About 65% of poisoning cases are related to children and of these, more than half of the patients are 5-year-old or less. While non-accidental poisoning is rare. We report two cases of intentional salbutamol poisoning in two young siblings presenting separately multiple times over a period of two years with similar presentations of tachycardia, hyperglycemia and hypokalemia. Case Presentation: Two siblings, one 3-year-old boy and the other one, 1 year old girl, presented at emergency department. Bo… Show more
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