Querosén - Symptom
Nombres alternativos
Intoxicación con aceite para lámparas; Intoxicación con queroseno
Síntomas:
- Pulmones y vías respiratorias
- dificultad respiratoria (por la inhalación)
- inflamación de la garganta que también puede causar dificultad respiratoria
- Ojos, oídos, nariz y garganta
- dolor
- pérdida de la visión
- Gastrointestinales
- dolor abdominal
- sangre en las heces
- quemaduras en el esófago
- vómitos, posiblemente con sangre
- Corazón y sangre
- desmayo
- hipotensión que se presenta rápidamente
- Sistema nervioso
- convulsiones
- depresión
- mareo
- somnolencia
- euforia (sensación de "ebriedad")
- dolor de cabeza
- pérdida de la lucidez mental (pérdida del conocimiento)
- crisis epiléptica
- marcha vacilante
- debilidad
- Piel
- Reviewed last on: 2/1/2010
- Jacob L. Heller, MD, MHA, Emergency Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
Referencias
Mirkin DB. Benzene and related aromatic hydrocarbons. In: Shannon MW, Borron SW, Burns MJ, eds. Haddad and Winchester's Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 94.

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