Citation

Keen RW, Deacon AC, Delves HT, Moreton JA, Frost PG. Postgrad. Med. J. 1994; 70(820): 113-114.

Affiliation

Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8170881

PMCID

PMC2397634

Abstract

Herbal remedies from the Indian subcontinent have been found to have high concentrations of heavy metals and unsupervised treatment may result in toxicity. We report the case of an Indian patient with hepatitis who was found to have lead poisoning where the source was traced to ethnic remedies he had been taking for diabetes.

Language: en