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Archives de Pédiatrie

Volume 6, Issue 8, August 1999, Pages 855-858
Archives de Pédiatrie

Fait clinique
Intoxication volontaire aux raticides chez une adolescenteVoluntary ingestion of a superwarfarin rodenticide by an adolescent

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Résumé

Les tentatives de suicide sont fréquentes à l'adolescence. La prise volontaire de raticides est rare en France, les effets secondaires sont prolongés et peuvent être sévères.

Observation

Une adolescente, âgée de 15 ans, présente un syndrome hémorragique clinique, associé à un déficit majeur des facteurs de coagulation vitamine K-dépendants. La recherche de raticides est positive. La jeune fille reconnaît tardivement l'ingestion volontaire et répétée de ce type de toxique.

Conclusion

L'intoxication volontaire aux raticides est exceptionnelle, mais il faut savoir l'évoquer à l'adolescence devant une chute isolée et inexpliquée des facteurs vitamine K-dépendants.

Summary

Suicide attempts are frequent during adolescence. Intentional ingestion of rat poison is not well known in France. The complications of this are prolonged and may be serious.

Case report

An adolescent, 15 years old, with clinical hemorrhagic syndrome, had coagulation deficiency. Rat poison had been found in serum. The young girl recognized later that the ingestion of these toxins was intentional.

Conclusion

Suicide attempt with rat poison is exceptional, but we have to mention it when vitamin K-dependent factors failed without any other explication.

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