title: [Carbamazepine poisoning in a small child].
abstract: Accidental intoxication with carbamazepine in a non epileptic female infant of two years of age is described. On admission the girl was unconscious, reacting only to painful stimuli, with a tonic extension spasm of the left arm and a tonic spasm of the mastication muscles. After primary care and gastric lavage a general tonic seizure with opisthotonus occurred. CBZ-plasma level 14 hours after ingestion: 19.4 mcg/ml (82.06 micromol/l). After the girl recovered consciousness, 21 hours after ingestion, a period of restlessness was seen. 36 hours after ingestion the patient had recovered completely. Comparison with published cases is made, the analogy to diphenylhydantoin intoxication is pointed out.
mesh_terms: D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000097:blood / Q000506:poisoning*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D002220:Carbamazepine
vernacular_title: Carbamazepinvergiftung bei einem Kleinkind.