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Oxytropis sericea is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names white locoweed, white point-vetch, whitepoint crazyweed, and silky crazyweed. It is native to western North America from Yukon and British Columbia south through the Pacific Northwest , the Rocky Mountains , and the Great Plains .
Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock. Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species , most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae : Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America , [ 1 ] and Swainsona in ...
[6] [1] These symptoms typically start in minutes to hours and then increase very rapidly to life-threatening levels. [1] Urgent medical treatment is required to prevent serious harm and death, even if the patient has used an epipen or has taken other medications in response, and even if symptoms appear to be improving.
Children under 6 are more likely to be exposed, but a new study finds that fatal poisonings from laundry detergent pods in a recent three-year period were all in adults.
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Histology slide of a solar lentigo. Differently from the melanotic nevi and the verrucous nevi on the skin, age spots change in color and in shape with time. Wang-Michelitsch and Michelitsch propose a hypothesis inspired by their misrepair-accumulation aging theory [12] for the development of age spots. [13]
Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting or, in animals, as trembles, is a kind of poisoning, characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain, that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol.
Short-term symptoms in otherwise healthy people can include fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. California farm Braga Fresh has recalled broccoli florets after ...