Acute exposure to urea.
According to the best of our knowledge there are no reports in medical literature about massive and acute exposure to carbamide. We have described a man who has fallen into the wagon car full of granulated urea. A 34-year old male, without previous medical history, has fallen into train car full of carbamide. For about 10 minutes the patient was fully covered with granulate. After one year of follow-up the patient was still having symptoms of obturative respiratory insufficiency. Despite the fact that urea is thought as non toxic agent massive exposures to it, in some circumstances, may cause chronic respiratory problems.
Pomerania Center of Toxicology, Gdańsk, Poland. jsanand@amg.gda.pl
Jacek Sein
JS
Anand
Piotr
P
Kabata
D000328:Adult; D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000209:etiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003128:Coma / Q000139:chemically induced; D062787:Drug Overdose; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D019570:Inhalation Exposure; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000139:chemically induced*; D014508:Urea / Q000506:poisoning*
D014508:Urea