Herbal medicine-associated lead intoxication

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 56-58

  Hasegawa, Setsuo ^a   Nakayama, Kazutaka ^a   Iwakiri, Katsuhiko ^a   An, Emi ^a   Gomi, Seiji ^a   Dan, Kazuo ^a   Katsumata, Masao ^a   Minami, Masayasu ^a   Wakabayashi, Ichiji ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

earthen teapot; herbal medicine; lead poisoning

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LEAD POISONING; MEDICINAL PLANT;

EID: 0030934652     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.56     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Rempel D. The lead-exposed worker. JAMA 262: 532, 1989 (see comments).
2. Braithwaite RA, Brown SS. Clinical and sub-clinical lead poisoning: a laboratory perspective. Hum Toxicol 7: 503, 1988.
3. Cullen MR, Robins JM, Eskenazi B. Adult inorganic lead intoxication: presentation of 31 new cases and a review of recent advances in the literature. Medicine (Baltimore) 62: 221, 1983.
4. Doss M, Baumann H, Lorrek M, Laubenthal F, Schneider J. Lead poisoning as a toxogenetic disease. Klin Wochenschr 62: 430, 1984.
5. Astrin KH, Bishop DF, Wetmur JG, Kaul B, Davidow B, Desnick RJ. delta-Aminolevulmic acid dehydratase isozymes and lead toxicity. Ann N Y Acad Sci 514: 23, 1987.
6. Lightfoote J, Blair HJ, Cohen JR. Lead intoxication in an adult caused by Chinese herbal medication. JAMA 238: 1539, 1977.
7. Yu ECL, Yeung CY. Lead encephalopathy due to herbal medicine. Chin Med J (Engl) 100: 915, 1987.
8. Brown S, Ede R. Occult lead poisoning. Br J Hosp Med 53: 469, 1995.
9. Leads from the MMWR. Lead poisoning from Mexican folk remedies California. JAMA 250: 3149, 1983.
10. Leads from the MMWR. Folk remedy-associated lead poisoning in Hmong children. JAMA 250: 3149, 1983.