Lessons to be learned: a case study approach. Unseasonal severe poisoning of two adults by deadly nightside (Atropa belladonna).
Unseasonal, mid-winter, severe poisoning by deadly nightshade is reported in two adults who simultaneously ate from a pie made of frozen deadly nightshade berries, mistaken at the time of picking for bilberries. Atropine levels are reported in the urine. Physostigmine treatment was ineffective.
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Worthing Hospital, Worthing, East Sussex.
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Dauncey
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D001532:Atropa belladonna / Q000506:poisoning*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D011041:Poisoning / Q000097:blood / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000652:urine; D012621:Seasons