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Fuels ( kerosene, petrol and naphthalene)

All important fuels are hydrocarbons derived from petroleum

Route : Ingestion, chronic inhalation

Fatal dose : kerosene – 15 to 30ml, petrol – 10 ml

Fatal Period : few hours

Mechanism of action : • They depress CNS and act as irritants, because they dissolve fat
• The effect on liver, kidney and bone marrow may be due to contaminants as benzene. Benzene is a human carcinogen

Clinical picture : • Kerosene taste and smell
• Chronic contact with skin causes eczematoid dermatitis with redness and inflammattion
• Burning in upper GIT
• Nausea, vomiting, colicky pain and diarrhea
• Respiration slow and shallow, cyanosis, bronchopneumonia and pulmonary edema
• Photophobia, redness in eyes
• CNS depression and convulsions and coma
• Pupils initially constricted and finally dilated

Treatment : • Stomach wash with warm water or sodium bicarbonate
• 250 ml liquid paraffin orally – dissolves kerosene and slows its absorption, followed by saline cathartic
• If inhaled- oxygenation and artificial respiration
• Symptomatic

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Should teicoplannin, colistin be used in case of neonatal sepsis where culture does not reveal any organism_?

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