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Symptoms of Heavy metal poisoning

Symptoms of Heavy metal poisoning

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  • "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
  • "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
  • "Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition)" (2005)
  • "Handbook of Diseases" (2003)

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Poisoning: Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Depending on poison (such as alcohol, cyanide, acetone, turpentine, or petroleum): headache, seizures, loss of consciousness, chest pain, muscle weakness, dizziness, nausea, vomiting

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Poisonous snakebite: Signs and Symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Pain, edema, fever, skin discoloration, petechiae, ecchymoses, blebs, blisters, bloody wound discharge, necrosis

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Poisonous snakebites: Signs and symptoms
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))

Most snakebites happen on the arms and legs, below the elbow or knee. Bites to the head or trunk are most dangerous, but any bite into a blood vessel is dangerous, regardless of location.

Most pit viper bites that result in envenomation cause immediate and progressively severe pain and edema, local elevation in skin temperature, fever, skin discoloration, petechiae, ecchymoses, blebs, blisters, bloody wound discharge, and local necrosis. (See After a snakebite.)

Because pit viper venom is neurotoxic, pit viper bites may cause local and facial numbness and tingling, fasciculation and twitching of skeletal muscles, seizures (especially in children), extreme anxiety, difficulty speaking, fainting, weakness, dizziness, excessive sweating, occasional paralysis, mild to severe respiratory distress, headache, blurred vision, marked thirst and, in severe envenomation, coma and death. Pit viper venom may also impair coagulation and cause hematemesis, hematuria, melena, bleeding gums, and internal bleeding. Other symptoms of pit viper bites include tachycardia, lymphadenopathy, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, and shock.

The reaction to coral snakebite is usually delayed — sometimes up to several hours. These snakebites cause little or no local tissue reaction (local pain, swelling, or necrosis). However, because coral snake venom is neurotoxic, a reaction can progress swiftly, producing such effects as local paresthesia, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, difficulty swallowing, marked salivation, dysphonia, ptosis, blurred vision, miosis, respiratory distress and possible respiratory failure, loss of muscle coordination and, possibly, shock with cardiovascular collapse and death.

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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005

Snakebites, poisonous: Signs and symptoms
(Handbook of Diseases)

Most snakebites happen on the arms and legs, below the elbow or knee. Bites to the head or trunk are most dangerous, but any bite into a blood vessel is dangerous, regardless of location.

Most pit viper bites that result in envenomation cause immediate and progressively severe pain and edema (the entire extremity may swell within a few hours), local elevation in skin temperature, fever, skin discoloration, petechiae, ecchymoses, blebs, blisters, bloody wound discharge, and local necrosis.

Because pit viper venom is neurotoxic, pit viper bites may cause local and facial numbness and tingling, fasciculation and twitching of skeletal muscles, seizures (especially in children), extreme anxiety, difficulty speaking, fainting, weakness, dizziness, excessive sweating, occasional paralysis, mild to severe respiratory distress, headache, blurred vision, marked thirst and, in severe envenomation, coma and death. Pit viper venom may also impair coagulation and cause hema-temesis, hematuria, melena, bleeding gums, and internal bleeding. Other symptoms of pit viper bites include tachycardia, lymphadenopathy, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension, and shock.

The reaction to coral snakebite is usually delayed — sometimes up to several hours. These snakebites cause little or no local tissue reaction (local pain, swelling, or necrosis). However, because coral snake venom is neurotoxic, a reaction can progress swiftly, producing such effects as local paresthesia, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, difficulty swallowing, marked salivation, dysphonia, ptosis, blurred vision, miosis, respiratory distress and possible respiratory failure, loss of muscle coordination and, possibly, shock with cardiovascular collapse and death.

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Source: Handbook of Diseases, 2003

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