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KMID : 1013220060040010048
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Jouranl of the Korean Society of Clinical Toxicology
2006 Volume.4 No. 1 p.48 ~ p.51
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A Patient Presenting with Abnormal Behavior after Wild Plant Ingestion
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Ohk Taek-Geun
Kim Yoon-Seong
Park Chan-Woo
Moon Joong-Bum
Cho Jun-Hwi
Choi Ki-Hun
Seo Jeong-Yeol
Ahn Hee-Cheol
Ahn Moo Eob
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Abstract
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With well-being boom recently, the common people, but not experts, are increasingly taking in them directly by picking wild herbs. However, only experts can distinguish between edible vegetables and poisonous herbs from the wild herbs. Especially, it is not even easy for experts to distinguish them only by looking into buds in spring without flowers or fruit. So, sometimes many patients are being carried into the emergency room by the toxic symptom after taking by misunderstanding the poisonous herbs as edible vegetables. For herb intoxication as well as drug intoxication, what kinds of vegetables patients took in, and when and how much they took in them are important information for curing. Of course, in the case of intoxicating in the wild herbs, the patients can have a lot of symptoms and sings-hemodynamic alteration and abnormal neurologic sign as well as gastrointestinal symptoms-according to the kinds of herbs which they took in. Therefore, it is difficult to find the kinds of herbs which they took in through the specific symptoms. Recently we experienced a case with showing typical anticholinergic symptoms after ingestion of Scopolia japonica. As a result, the publicity activities about the wild plants needs because if the person without their previous knowledge take in the poisonous herbs, serious side effects can be produced.
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KEYWORD
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Wild plants, Herb Intoxication, Abnormal behavior
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