Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Shagun Walia

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• Case Report
  An Unusual Case of Iatrogenic ALUM Toxicity Resulting in Fulminant Hepatic Failure of Young
  Author(s): Devendra Richhariya, Neelam Mohan Vivekanshu Verma and Shagun WaliaDevendra Richhariya, Neelam Mohan Vivekanshu Verma and Shagun Walia
  
  ALUM- is commercial term of chemical - Aluminium potassium sulfate. Its chemical formula is KAl(SO4)2. ALUMalso known as Potash Alum in Indian groceries. Alum is consumed on advice of unqualified quacks as a household remedy for various ailments in villages, due to lack of availability of doctors, Hospitals, pharmacies and allopathic medications in rural countryside. We are presenting a recent unusual case of iatrogenic fatal Alum toxicity in a young minor, in whom Alum was dispensed by a traditional local quack for curing patient’s prolonged fever, resulting in drug induced liver injury, leading to fatal complication of fulminant hepatic failure, in absence of no specific antidote of Alum, requiring urgent liver transplantation... View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000367

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