Acute respiratory failure due to Nicotiana glauca ingestion.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:A variety of organisms produce potent toxins that impact human health through compromising respiratory function. CASE REPORT:We describe a rare case of abrupt respiratory failure afterNicotiana glaucaingestion in a previously healthy sixty years old female patient. She presented complaining for gait instability and malaise after ingestion of cooked leaves of the wild plant and two hours after the onset she developed respiratory failurefor which she was intubated and mechanically ventilated for two days. The patient fully recovered and was discharged from the hospital. CONCLUSION:Anabasine, the plant's main active ingredient, can cause severe systemic intoxication due to its nicotinic receptor agonist action with respiratory muscle paralysis being the main effect.

journal_name

Hippokratia

journal_title

Hippokratia

authors

Ntelios D,Kargakis M,Topalis T,Drouzas A,Potolidis E

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-04-01 00:00:00

pages

183-4

issue

2

eissn

1108-4189

issn

1790-8019

journal_volume

17

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