[Sweets from the pharmaceutical industry reason to suspect intoxication with quetiapine].
A 13-year-old boy was presented to the emergency department with a presumed intoxication with quetiapine, an antipsychotic. The tablets turned out to be peppermints, used as advertisement gift from the pharmaceutical industry. This misunderstanding could have led to unnecessary treatment and observation of the patient in hospital, for a moderately serious intoxication.
Raphaël
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Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, afd. Kindergeneeskunde, Leiden. m.raphael@jkz-rkz.nl
Bouts
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Sukhai
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D000293:Adolescent; D000329:Advertising / Q000379:methods; D014150:Antipsychotic Agents / Q000506:poisoning; D002182:Candy; D003987:Dibenzothiazepines / Q000506:poisoning; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011041:Poisoning / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D000069348:Quetiapine Fumarate
D014150:Antipsychotic Agents; D003987:Dibenzothiazepines; D000069348:Quetiapine Fumarate