Kerosene oil poisoning in children: A hospital-based prospective study in Sri Lanka

Lucas, Gérard

doi:10.1007/bf02751978

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“…In this study, male children 61% are more affected than female child, which is similar to Wakil Paswan et al, Kumaravel K S, Lucas et al and Emad Siddique et al [3][4][5][6] Most of the children were from rural places similar to Anwar S et al and Sunilkumar et al, but in contrast to Kumaravel et al study where it was urban dominance. 3,7,8 Kerosene in rural population is stored in bottle containers and children can mistake it for soft drinks.…”

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“…Regarding central nervous system which is rich in a lipid component myelin, kerosene acts on the compound and causes drowsiness, altered mentation and in severe cases respiratory failure. In our study, Cough was the major symptom present in 61% of children whereas it was found in 85% in Kumaravel study, 90% in Nagi NA et al study 80% in Lucas et al and 82% in Wakil Paswan study and Sunilkumar et al [3][4][5]8,9 Fever was present in 41% cases in this study compared to 69% in Wakil Paswan study, 83.5% in Nagi study and 3% of cases in Kumaravel study. 3,4,9 Vomiting following consumption of kerosene was found in 36% whereas it was found in 69% cases in Kumaravel study and Nagi study showed 60.6%.…”

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confidence: 42%

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Clinical profile and outcome of children with kerosene poisoning in a tertiary care centre: a study from South India

Thilakavathi

Elangovan

2018

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Accidental poison ingestion is very common in children. Among this kerosene ingestion is the most common ingested poison by children. Knowledge about complications of kerosene poisoning is important to manage the children. The study is aimed to analyze the demographic and clinical profile along with the Outcome of children admitted with kerosene ingestion.Methods: This retrospective study was done in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Government Villupuram Medical College, Villupuram from January 2016 to December 2016. The case records of all children were entered in a pre-structured Proforma and analysed on SPSS 20.0. P value of <0.05 was considered significant.Results: A total of 116 children were included in the study. There was a male preponderance (61%) with the common age group being affected as 1 to 3 years (88%) and most of the cases were from rural places (94%) during April to June. Cough (62%) was the major symptom followed by breathlessness (51%) and fever (41%). Chest radiology shows right lower lobe infiltrates (45%) as common finding followed by left lower lobe infiltrates (32%) and bilateral lower lobe infiltrates (18%) as least.Conclusions: The awareness of Kerosene Poisoning could reduce the morbidity and mortality rate as prevention of ingestion is the cure. These substances are not stored properly. Parental education is the hall mark in prevention of all acute Poisoning with due importance of acute Kerosene Poisoning at home.

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Clinical profile and outcome of children with kerosene poisoning in a tertiary care centre: a study from South India

Thilakavathi

Elangovan

2018

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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“…Of the hydrocarbon poisonings, majority (60.87%) were from kerosene ingestion, similar to study done by [24].The reason could be attributed to kerosene being mistaken for water [16,23,40,31].…”

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confidence: 76%

Incidence Prevalence Clinical Overview and Cost Analysis of Pediatric Poisoning Cases in a Tertiary Care Setting of Berhampur, Odisha, India.

Mahapatra¹,

Rath²,

Ramani³

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IJAR

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“…It is a serious cause of poisoning in the lower socio-economic group 2,5 . In our study 72% of the families were in the lower socio-economic group.…”

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Socio-demographic factors, symptoms, complications and treatment of kerosene oil poisoning in children: A hospital based cross-sectional study

Basu

2016

Sri Lanka J Child Health

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Objective: To assess the contribution of social and demographic factors and to describe the symptoms, complications and treatment of kerosene oil poisoning Method: This is a cross-sectional study of children with kerosene oil poisoning who were admitted to College of Medicine and JNM Hospital in Kalyani, India during a one year study period. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics.Results: There were 64 children with kerosene oil poisoning during study period. There were 72% males, 75% toddlers and 72% families below the poverty line. Incidence was 62.5% in summer and in 43.8% cases kerosene was stored in transparent water containers. Fever was present in 26.6%, respiratory distress in 22% and pneumonitis in 15.6% children. There were no deaths. Conclusions:In our study 15.6% children developed pneumonitis. In 65.6% instances the kerosene oil was mistaken for water or cool drinks. There were no deaths.

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Kerosene oil poisoning in children: A hospital-based prospective study in Sri Lanka

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Clinical profile and outcome of children with kerosene poisoning in a tertiary care centre: a study from South India

Clinical profile and outcome of children with kerosene poisoning in a tertiary care centre: a study from South India

Incidence Prevalence Clinical Overview and Cost Analysis of Pediatric Poisoning Cases in a Tertiary Care Setting of Berhampur, Odisha, India.

Socio-demographic factors, symptoms, complications and treatment of kerosene oil poisoning in children: A hospital based cross-sectional study

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