Alejandro Padilla-Guzmán, Olga L Prado, David Ballesteros, Viviana Rivera, Yessica Bravo, Luisa Murillo, Sandra Narváez, Jessica M Forero
Paraquat®, or N,N′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium dichloride, is a bipyridyl compound used as a non-selective herbicide and desiccant that can cause acute poisoning through all routes of exposure. There is no known antidote, and the available treatments are based on avoiding its absorption and timely removing it, in adults and children. We describe a case series of 14 pediatric patients from the department of Cauca, Colombia, with acute intoxication after oral intake of paraquat. Patients were referred to a medium-high complexity hospital in southwestern Colombia and treated according to an institutional protocol for acute paraquat poisoning...
March 31, 2024: Biomédica: Revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud