[Sodium nitrite poisoning in a neonate]

V Kredba1, P Pokorná, P Srnský

  • 1Klinika dĕtského a dorostového lékarství 1. LF UK a VFN, Praha. vkred@vfn.cz

Casopis Lekaru Ceskych
|April 16, 2003
PubMed

Natrium nitrosum intoxication is usually associated with a subsequent methemoglobinemia. Beside it, nitrates can cause also some other pathological states. Treatment with the toluidine blue may have various adverse side effects. Newborn intoxication by natrium nitrosum developing after the intoxication of the bearing mother before the parturition has not been described yet. Our own observation is referred.