Pérez BE, Rodríguez OR, Sánchez VMC

Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 119-124
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ABSTRACT

There are a variety of plants that can be toxic to humans, unfortunately many of them can be used intentionally to produce various types of effects on the body and the indiscriminate use and lack of toxicological information about them by the population, can lead to severe organic lesions and even death. Many of the plants that are sometimes used therapeutically are sold without restriction in different markets and herbal stores, leading to abailability and use. It may cause toxic effects of varying severety depending on dose and mode of administration. Some of them are kept as ornamental plants by many people in our country, being well in gardens, parks and flower pots in many houses, of which an example is the Brugmancia that although there is no known toxic dose, can cause significant neurological damage, so the aim of this paper is to report a case of the neurotoxic effects of the plant and disseminate among the medical community the importance of detecting toxindrome caused by the substances of this flower so we can provide appropriate multidisciplinary management to achieve lower morbidity and mortality of plant poisoning. The Brugmancia (floripondio) has scopolamine, chemical substance found throughout the plant that produces neurological changes among other alkaloids that induce a clinical picture of neurotoxicity that can lead to death.

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