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[Ocular involvement due to the juice of Dieffenbachia plants (author's transl)]
Klinische Monatsblatter Fur Augenheilkunde
|January 1, 1977
Abstract:
Upon breaking the stem or the branches of a Dieffenbachia plant juice is released in an explosive manner and may thus involve the eye. A myriad of fine calcium-oxalate crystals penetrate into all layers of the cornea, and an iritis can develop. The latter ceases within 6 days, the corneal cristals vanish within about three weeks.