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Rebound severe methemoglobinemia from ingestion of a nitroethane artificial-fingernail remover
K C Osterhoudt1, C C Wiley, R Dudley
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 19104, USA.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|May 1, 1995
Abstract:
We describe life-threatening methemoglobinemia in a child who ingested a nitroethane artificial-fingernail remover initially mistaken to be an acetone-based polish remover. Nitroethane-induced methemoglobinemia may be delayed and recurrent; patients ingesting this substance may warrant close observation for at least 24 hours. Care givers are cautioned to determine the precise substance involved in ingestions of potentially toxic fingernail products.