title: [Pentoxyverine poisoning via maternal milk in a fully breast-fed newborn infant].
abstract: A four-week-old male infant who had been exclusively breast-fed by his mother developed acute respiratory failure with intermittent arrest of breathing for up to 15 sec, in between sighing breaths and normal ones. For two weeks his mother had been taking pentoxyverine-containing cough drops for an upper respiratory tract infection. Pentoxyverine was demonstrated in maternal serum and breast milk, as well as the child's serum and urine, in some in very high concentrations. The course of the illness and comparison with reported instances of pentoxyverine poisoning in infants makes it likely that this, too, was such a case.
authors: Kinderklinik der Universität Tübingen.
authors: B J
authors: BJ
authors: Stier
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Sieverding
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Moeller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000996:Antitussive Agents / Q000506:poisoning*; D001942:Breast Feeding; D003517:Cyclopentanes / Q000032:analysis / Q000097:blood / Q000506:poisoning*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008895:Milk, Human / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000996:Antitussive Agents; D003517:Cyclopentanes; C018861:carbetapentane
vernacular_title: Pentoxyverin-Intoxikation über die Muttermilch bei einem vollgestillten Neugeborenen.