SYNDROMOLOGY AND AFTER-EFFECTS OF MASS ACUTE ORAL POISONING BY HYDROXYLAMINE SULFATE

G.M. Balan, G.M. Prodanchuk, S.I. Ivanova, T.V. Mymrenko, V.A. Babich, V.I. Stahovich

It was described 76 incidents of acute oral poisonings by methemoglobin-formation compound — hydroxylamine sulfate (HS). Cause of poisoning was the eating of home-made lemonade (HS was used instead of citric acid accidentally). There were revealed methemoglobinnemia (90,8 per cent of cases), sulphohemoglobinnemia (47,3 per cent) and formation of Geinca-Erliha corpuscles (42 per cent) in victims. The main syndromes of poisoning were: hemolytic anemia, astheno-vegetative syndrome, toxical hepatopathy and cardiomiopathy, in separate cases — vegetative-sensory polynevropathy of extremities, acute pneumonia, infarct of spleen with small-nidal infarct of miocard.

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