23 children were discharged from hospital

NDO - According to information from Bach Mai Hospital, 11 children poisoned by drinking rat poison in Tuyen Quang are still hospitalized, 23 cases have been discharged.

According to doctors at Bach Mai Hospital, among the 34 children (24 at the Pediatric Center and 10 at the Poison Control Center), the damage caused by poisoning includes: 4 children with brain damage, 9 children at risk of seizures on electroencephalogram, 13 children on tests showed signs of heart function damage.

On January 26, the two units discharged 23 children and instructed them to return for re-examination. The remaining 11 children with abnormalities on their EEG or brain damage will continue to be treated and re-evaluated soon for discharge consideration.

The Pediatric Center and the Poison Control Center are working with neurologists to carefully evaluate the EEG and consider treating some children at risk of seizures. If they do not have any, they can still be discharged. Children with brain damage will have another MRI scan of the brain on the 28th and 29th of the lunar calendar. If they are stable, they can be transferred to another hospital or discharged with a prescription and a follow-up appointment.

Sharing before the discharge, a parent expressed gratitude for the support and kindness of the doctors and medical staff during the past time: “When we learned that our child had taken rat poison, our family was extremely worried. When we went to Bach Mai Hospital to meet the doctors, we could not hold back our tears. Now that we are discharged from the hospital and can go home to celebrate Tet, we are truly happy. The doctors also gave thoughtful and thorough instructions and detailed instructions on monitoring the child's abnormalities as well as follow-up visits.”

Previously, on the evening of January 22, the Pediatric Center and the Poison Control Center, Bach Mai Hospital received 32 pediatric patients, most of whom were students from grades 1 to 5 at Phu Binh Primary School, Tuyen Quang City, who had mistakenly ingested the rat poison fluoroacetate.

On January 23, the Poison Control Center continued to receive 2 more pediatric patients, bringing the total number of pediatric patients who drank “red syrup” to kill rats and were treated at Bach Mai Hospital to 34.

After being admitted to the hospital, all children were urgently examined, evaluated, tested, checked for injuries due to poisoning, toxins in urine, MRI scans for children with indications, echocardiograms, etc.

Even when the children are awake and still playing, they are closely monitored and treated according to the protocol. Doctors constantly check to make sure they do not miss other toxic causes.

The patient's family and the children prepare to leave the hospital.

Dr. Nguyen Trung Nguyen, Director of the Poison Control Center, said that with the characteristics of the red liquid tube, the children's symptoms and the available toxicology test results, this was a case of poisoning with the rat poison fluoroacetate/fluoroacetamide.

In addition, doctors are very careful to monitor and evaluate whether there are other substances causing poisoning at the same time because the first child discovered the bag containing rat poison chemicals with a blue tube. Fluoroacetate/fluoroacetamide is a rat poison chemical originating from China, usually in the form of: small plastic or glass tubes containing pink solution, colorless solution, brown solution, or pink rice grain packets, all without labels or if there are, they are completely in Chinese.

This is a highly toxic rat poison that can cause seizures, coma, severe brain damage, heart damage, acute myocarditis, acute heart failure, arrhythmia, cardiogenic shock, with hypocalcemia being the typical symptom. Severe poisoning can cause multiple organ damage and failure.

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