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[Voluntary poisoning with a rodenticide in an adolescent]
C Neguin1, A Beuchée, M Pommereuil
1Département de médecine de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, hôpital Sud, CHU, Rennes, France.
Abstract
Unlabelled:
Suicide attempts are frequent during adolescence. Intentional ingestion of rat poison is not well known in France. The complications of this are prolonged and may be serious.
Case Report:
An adolescent, 15 years old, with clinical hemorrhagic syndrome, had coagulation deficiency. Rat poison had been found in serum. The young girl recognized later that the ingestion of these toxins was intentional.
Conclusion:
Suicide attempt with rat poison is exceptional, but we have to mention it when vitamin K-dependent factors failed without any other explication.