Datura stramonium poisonings in humans. |
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| Authors: | H Thabet N Brahmi M Amamou N Ben Salah A Hédhili M Yacoub |
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| Affiliation: | Intensive Care Unit, Centre d'assistance medicale urgente, Montfleury, Tunis, Tunisia. |
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| Abstract: | Datura stramonium is a hallucinogenic plant which causes serious poisoning. Clinical symptoms are those of atropinic intoxication with psychiatric manifestations of dryness of mouth, mydriasis, tachycardia and hallucinations. Diagnosis is essentially clinical. Treatment is symptomatic and suppurative; prognosis is usually favorable. |
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