Acute Cyanide Toxicity Caused by Apricot Kernel Ingestion - 09/09/11
Abstract |
A 41-year-old woman ingested apricot kernels purchased at a health food store and became weak and dyspneic within 20 minutes. The patient was comatose and hypothermic on presentation but responded promptly to antidotal therapy for cyanide poisoning. She was later treated with a continuous thiosulfate infusion for persistent metabolic acidosis. This is the first reported case of cyanide toxicity from apricot kernel ingestion in the United States since 1979. [Suchard JR, Wallace KL, Gerkin RD: Acute cyanide toxicity caused by apricot kernel ingestion. Ann Emerg Med December 1998;32:742-744.]
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 | From the Department of Medical Toxicology, Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ. |
| Reprints not available from the authors. |
 | Address for correspondence: Jeffrey R Suchard, MD, Department of Medical Toxicology, GSRMC, 925 East McDowell Road, 2nd Floor, Phoenix, AZ 85006, E-mail jsuchard@samaritan.edu. |
| 47/1/94121 |
Vol 32 - N° 6
P. 742-744 - décembre 1998 Retour au numéro
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