In Chaclacayo, district (Lima) and around areas they use rodenticide product of free sale. The objective of this study was to describe the acute intoxication cases that frequently arrive to C. S. M. Grau for treatment. We describe 88 retrospective cases of intoxicactions by carbamate happened since 2003 to 2007. We obtanined information from Emergency Book and Clinic Histories The intoxications were all oral and there was not information about the toxic dose. It was no possible to analize the product residue in blood sample. All cases presented moderate to severe intoxication grade and presented abdominal pain, disorientation, nausea, vomiting, disartria, myosis, respiratory distress with bronchorrhea, cough, diaphoresis, sialorrea, shedding tears, flacddity and fasciculation. Of all cases, 35 were men (40%) and 53 were women (60 %), 6 were under the age of 10 (7%),32 were adolescents (3...

In Chaclacayo, district (Lima) and around areas they use rodenticide product of free sale. The objective of this study was to describe the acute intoxication cases that frequently arrive to C. S. M. Grau for treatment. We describe 88 retrospective cases of intoxicactions by carbamate happened since 2003 to 2007. We obtanined information from Emergency Book and Clinic Histories The intoxications were all oral and there was not information about the toxic dose. It was no possible to analize the product residue in blood sample. All cases presented moderate to severe intoxication grade and presented abdominal pain, disorientation, nausea, vomiting, disartria, myosis, respiratory distress with bronchorrhea, cough, diaphoresis, sialorrea, shedding tears, flacddity and fasciculation. Of all cases, 35 were men (40%) and 53 were women (60 %), 6 were under the age of 10 (7%),32 were adolescents (3...