Abstract
IntroductionThe poisoning among children had been a major cause of hospital admission and also a significant global health problem throughout the world including Nepal. There are various studies suggestive of incidence rate of poisoning in children ranging from 0.74% to 3%. In older children, poisoning is usually intentional where as in infants and younger children it is accidental in nature There are few studies done in Nepal and they are mainly from Kathmandu valley, this study will add more information from eastern region of Nepal.ObjectiveThis study aimed to find out the type of poisoning among children and adolescents, manner of poisoning and its outcomes.MethodologyThis was a retrospective study carried out at Nobel Medical College Teaching Hospital over a period of one year starting from 1st August 2014 to 31 July 2015. This study included all the children and adolescents of 1 to 18 years of age admitted to pediatric ward and ICU for the management of poisoning. The information including name of poisons, manner of poisoning, socio-economic and demographic factors related to poisoning, geographical distribution of sample population, durations of hospital stay and outcome of treatment were retrieved from the records. The data was analyzed using SPSS. Susceptibility, urinary tract infection, uropathogens.ResultsA total of 64 cases were studied. It included almost the same number of males (n=31) and females (n=33). The age group of 13-18 years had the largest prevalence of poisoning (n=22). Organo-phosphorus (n=25) was the commonest poison. As the study was conducted in a tertiary care center of eastern Nepal located at Biratnagar, Morang district, a majority of the cases (39) were from Morang. A total of 41% children required hospital stay for more than 7 days where as 37% of them required 5-7 days of hospital stay and only 22% children stayed for 1-4 days in the hospital. No mortality was noted.ConclusionThe pediatric poisoning in eastern Nepal is a significant public health issue and nature of poisoning was accidental followed by suicidal. The commonest age group involved is adolescence, which highlights the need for education and implementation of suicidal prevention programming this region. The higher prevalence of accidental poisoning in first two year of life necessitates the need of child safety and injury prevention program in the community. Birat Journal of Health Sciences Vol.2/No.1/Issue 2/ Jan - April 2017, Page: 138-141
Highlights
Poisoning among children had been a major cause of hospital admission and a significant global health problem throughout the world including Nepal.[1,2] There are various studies sugges ve of incidence rate of poisoning in children ranging from 0.74% to 3%.3-9In older children poisoning is usually inten onal whereas in infants and younger children it is accidental in nature.[10,11,12]According to World Health Organisa on (WHO), in the year 2004 an es mated 346,000 people died worldwide from uninten onal poisoning
The pediatric poisoning in eastern Nepal is a significant public health issue and nature of poisoning was accidental followed by suicidal
The commonest age group involved is adolescence, which highlights the need for educa on and implementa on of suicidal preven on programin this region
Summary
According to World Health Organisa on (WHO), in the year 2004 an es mated 346,000 people died worldwide from uninten onal poisoning. Of these deaths, 91% occurred in low and middle income countries. Most of the poisonings take place in rural areas of developing countries, where safeguards typically are inadequate or lacking altogether. There is a growing concern regarding the unregulated use of pes cides in the field of agriculture. The developing countries use 25% of the world's produc on of pes cides, they experience 99% of the deaths due to pes cide poisoning.[13]
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