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Showing posts with label poisoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poisoning. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Increasing Reports of Nicotine Poisoning in Children as E-cigarette Popularity Grows

As E-cigarettes gain popularity, the liquid refill bottles are mistakingly making their way into the hands of children. NEJM recently reported a case of a 10 month old boy that presented with vomiting, tachycardia, grunting respirations and truncal ataxia.

                                                              Photo courtesy of NEJM

Check out the original article here:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1403843