Citation

Thabet H, Brahmi N, Amamou M, Ben Salah N, Hédhili A, Yacoub M. Vet. Hum. Toxico. 1999; 41(5): 320-321.

Affiliation

Intensive Care Unit, Centre d'assistance medicale urgente, Montfleury, Tunis, Tunisia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American College of Veterinary Toxicologists)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10509437

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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