title: Datura stramonium poisonings in humans.
abstract: Datura stramonium is a hallucinogenic plant which causes serious poisoning. Clinical symptoms are those of atropinic intoxication with psychiatric manifestations of dryness of mouth, mydriasis, tachycardia and hallucinations. Diagnosis is essentially clinical. Treatment is symptomatic and suppurative; prognosis is usually favorable.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Unit, Centre d'assistance medicale urgente, Montfleury, Tunis, Tunisia.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thabet
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brahmi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amamou
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ben Salah
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hédhili
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yacoub
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D013286:Datura stramonium / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D010939:Plant Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010947:Plants, Toxic