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Bilateral ptosis in a child following massive attack by a swarm of wasps
Nivedita Mondal1, Sriram Krishnamurthy, Parameswaran Narayanan
1The Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry-605006, India.
Journal of Child Neurology
|May 21, 2011
Abstract:
Neurological manifestations of wasp sting are rare and the etiopathogenesis is not completely understood. We report a 2-year-old girl who developed bilateral ptosis after multiple wasp stings, which responded partially to pyridostigmine. This is the first reported case of wasp venom-induced ptosis in a child. We discuss the possible pathogenetic mechanisms behind this phenomenon.
