Plant Poisoning in the State of Pará, Brazil

Bruno Fernando Barros dos Santos
Lanna Zorah Farias de Souza
Júlia Pereira Alexandre Borges
Maria Apolonia da Costa Gadelha
Pedro Pereira de Oliveira Pardal

    Bruno Fernando Barros dos Santos

    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.

    Lanna Zorah Farias de Souza

    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.

    Graduating student at the Federal University of Pará, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Since 2017, he has supervised voluntary internship at the Toxicological Information Center (CIT - Belém), located at the João de Barros Barreto University Hospital (HUJBB), being on-duty scholarship holder (2018-2020), working in the area of Clinical Toxicology and Tropical Medicine the treatment of poisoning victims by poisonous animals, plants, chemicals and medicines. In 2020, elected to the position of President of the Free Academic Pharmacy Center (CALF).

    Júlia Pereira Alexandre Borges

    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.

    Graduating student at the Federal University of Pará, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Volunteer in a supervised internship at the Toxicological Information Center (CIT - Belém), located at the João de Barros Barreto University Hospital (HUJBB), working in the area of Clinical Toxicology and Tropical Medicine with guidance for the treatment of poisoning victims by poisonous animals, plants, chemicals and medicines. Scholarship in a supervised internship at the Toxicological Information Center (CIT - Belém), located at the João de Barros Barreto University Hospital (HUJBB), working in the area of Clinical Toxicology and Tropical Medicine with guidance for the treatment of poisoning victims by poisonous animals, plants, chemicals and medicines. Voluntary Scientific Initiation student at the Nanotechnology and Quality Control Laboratory, at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Pará.

    Maria Apolonia da Costa Gadelha

    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.

    Pedro Pereira de Oliveira Pardal

    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.

    Physician graduated from the Federal University of Pará (1972), Specialization, Master (2002) and PhD in Tropical Diseases by the Center for Tropical Medicine at the Federal University of Pará (2014). Currently retired as a professor at the Federal University of Pará. He has experience in the area of Medicine, with an emphasis on Tropical Medicine, acting mainly on the following themes: poisonous animals, poisoning and intoxication.


Keywords

Epidemiology
Manihot esculenta
Jatropha gossypiifolia
Jatropha curcas
Dieffenbachia picta

Abstract

This study intended to trace the epidemiological profile of accidents caused by toxic plants in the State of Pará, Brazil. For this, it was made a descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study of registered cases of plant poisoning, utilizing the database of the Toxicological Information Center (CIT), at João de Barros Barreto University Hospital in Belém-Pará, from the period of January 2007 to May 2018. The results reveal 14,952 reported cases of poisoning by various chemical agents and poisoning by poisonous animals, of which 143 (0.95%) by plants. The 0-9 age group, the female gender, the city of Belém, in individual circumstances and oral exposure were the most frequent variables. The vegetables that most caused poisoning were Jatropha gossypiifolia L., J. curcas L., Manihot esculenta Crantz and Dieffenbachia picta Schott, being as seeds and leaves (in the form of tea) as parts of the vegetable most used. In this study it was found that the majority of intoxications were of domestic origin, which calls attention to the need for guidance and prevention of parents and guardians in the handling of toxic plants.

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Author(s)

  • Bruno Fernando Barros dos Santos
    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.
  • Lanna Zorah Farias de Souza
    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.
  • Júlia Pereira Alexandre Borges
    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.
  • Maria Apolonia da Costa Gadelha
    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.
  • Pedro Pereira de Oliveira Pardal
    Federal University of Pará, Institute of Health Sciences - UFPA / ICS, Av. Generalíssimo Deodoro, 01, Umarizal, CEP 66050-160, Belém, PA, Brazil.

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Plant Poisoning in the State of Pará, Brazil. Rev Fitos [Internet]. 2021 Mar. 31 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];15(1):78-83. Available from: https://revistafitos.far.fiocruz.br/index.php/revista-fitos/article/view/857
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