[Acute allopurinol (milurit) poisoning]

A patient with gout and schizophrenia is described who during a schizophrenic paroxysm with paranoid-hypochondriac-hallucinatory syndrome attempted to commit suicide and took 200 tablets milurit (20 g). He developed the picture of acute intoxication with nausea, vomiting, profuse diarrhea, abdominal pain, flushing, temperature, collapse manifestations, hepatomegaly, direct hyperbilirubinemia, elevated transaminase, leukopenia, accelerated ESR. After reanimation and infusion therapy, the patient recovered within 4 days and 2 weeks later all blood indices reached the limits of the norm.