Toxic substances in the household - cases of poisoning, therapy, complications

WILK, Joanna, KUBICKA, Magdalena, DĘBIEC, Paweł, SZYDŁOWSKI, Przemysław, MAKAREWICZ, Magdalena, PORZAK, Mikołaj and SZYŁKAJTIS, Natalia. Toxic substances in the household - cases of poisoning, therapy, complications. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2023;44(1):104-115. eISSN 2391-8306. http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2023.44.01.007 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/45112 https://zenodo.org/record/8246040 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of 17.07.2023 No. 32318. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 17.07.2023 Lp. 32318. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe: Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2023; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 16.07.2023. Revised:10.08.2023. Accepted: 14.08.2023. Published: 18.08.2023. Toxic substances in the household - cases of poisoning, therapy, complications Joanna Wilk1, Magdalena Kubicka2, Paweł Dębiec3, Przemysław Szydłowski4, Magdalena Makarewicz5, Mikołaj Porzak6 , Natalia Szyłkajtis7 1Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Stefana Kardynała Wyszyńskiego w Lublinie 2Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Stefana Kardynała Wyszyńskiego w Lublinie 3Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej MSWiA w Lublinie 4Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej MSWiA w Lublinie 5Samodzielny Publiczny Szpital Kliniczny Nr 4 w Lublinie 6Wojewódzki Szpital Specjalistyczny im. Stefana Kardynała Wyszyńskiego w Lublinie 7Samodzielny Publiczny Zakład Opieki Zdrowotnej MSWiA w Lublinie Corresponding author: Joanna Wilk Email: wilk.joanna95@gmail.com ORCID:0000-0001-7425-2006 Magdalena Kubicka Email: magdalenakubickaa@wp.pl ORCID: 0000-0002-1645-8943 Paweł Dębiec Email: paweldebiec97@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-1184-5354 Przemysław Szydłowski Email: przemo665037@gmail.com ORCID: 0009-0004-4726-8933 Magdalena Makarewicz Email: m.makarewicz.97@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0003-0485-8998 Mikołaj Porzak Email: mikolaj.porzak@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0003-0548-1950 Natalia Szyłkajtis Email: natalia.szylkajtis@gmail.com ORCID: 0009-0000-6220-7187 ABSTRACT There are many toxic substances used in our houses. Rodent poisons are not the most common group of substances, but cases of poisoning still occur. Long-acting anticoagulant rodenticides, also called superwarfarins, are known for their greater potency, longer half-life and delayed onset of symptoms. Cases of superwarfarin poisoning can pose a diagnostic and clinical challenge due to a wide array of presentations and prolonged severe coagulopathy requiring months of high-dose oral vitamin K therapy. The most common presentation of long-acting anticoagulant rodenticide poisoning is mucocutaneous bleeding, with other common presentations including haematuria, gingival bleeding, epistaxis and gastrointestinal bleeding.We discuss a case of self-poisoning with long-acting anticoagulant rodenticides with a little presentation of sympthoms and disscus about another cases based on the found articles. KEYS WORDS: 'rodenticides poisoning', 'rodenticides toxicity'