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Thallium can enter the body through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or through ingestion. Acute symptoms of thallium exposure include, but are not limited to, stomach pain, diarrhea, and vomiting. More serious neurological symptoms don't appear until days after the metal has been ingested.
PUMCH concluded in their paper titled "Clinical Analysis of Five Cases of Thallium Poisoning" that after treatment, "clinical symptoms and signs improved significantly, but due to the prolonged course of the disease, there were sequelae such as optic nerve atrophy, paralysis of both lower limbs, muscle atrophy, and intellectual impairment".
Some thorium compounds are chemically moderately toxic, especially in the presence of strong complex-forming ions such as citrate that carry the thorium into the body in soluble form. [179] If a thorium-containing object has been chewed or sucked, it loses 0.4% of thorium and 90% of its dangerous daughters to the body. [127] Three-quarters of ...
Thallium salts were used in the treatment of ringworm, other skin infections and to reduce the night sweating of tuberculosis patients. This use has been limited due to their narrow therapeutic index , and the development of improved medicines for these conditions.
There is no single treatment that will speed up recovery, Dibba said. It takes time for your body to flush out the toxins causing the food poisoning, usually 24 to 48 hours.
The family pathologist, Dr. Richard Fukomoto, was unable to examine her body upon its release, due to a large set of strange circumstances. Some of the organs in Ramirez's body were cross-contaminated with fecal matter, her remains had become heavily decomposed by the time Dr. Fukumoto could examine them, and her heart had gone missing.
Common symptoms are often flulike and include headache, dizziness, upset stomach, chest pain or confusion, but highly concentrated levels of CO can cause a person to pass out without feeling symptoms.
Irina Bogloyan tells Andy Gregory of her harrowing symptoms after investigating Moscow’s forcible transfer of Ukrainian children ‘My body was burning’: Russian journalist’s horror journey ...