Symptoms of drug poisoning

Perhaps in reality, many people will encounter such a situation, where they suffer from food poisoning due to their own reasons or the food itself. The consequences of food poisoning vary in severity. Some people will only experience mild discomfort, but some people may lose their lives due to food poisoning, so it must be taken seriously. Common food poisoning may be caused by food incompatibility or by one's own allergies to these foods.

In fact, in addition to food poisoning, the human body may also suffer from drug poisoning. There are many reasons for drug poisoning, such as drug poisoning due to allergy to a certain drug, or drug poisoning due to excessive use of the drug. So, what are the symptoms of drug poisoning? Let’s take a closer look below.

Drug poisoning refers to poisoning caused by exceeding the maximum dosage. It can also be caused by accidental ingestion, overdose, or drug abuse. Common drugs that cause poisoning include Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and pesticides.

Chlorpromazine poisoning

Patients may experience dizziness, drowsiness, apathy, weakness, and sometimes mental disorders, incoherent talking and moving; they may also experience drooling, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloating, jaundice, and liver enlargement. Acute poisoning caused by excessive doses often causes palpitations, cold limbs, low blood pressure, and even shock. Patients also experience difficulty breathing, pupil constriction, coma, and loss of reflexes. Protein, red and white blood cells and casts may appear in the urine. Long-term, high-dose use can cause granulocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and even aplastic anemia. Facial nerve paralysis, dysarthria and stuttering, spasms of the muscles around the eye sockets, and even opisthotonos may also occur. A few cause eye damage, leading to vision loss or even blindness.

Phenobarbital, amobarbital, and secobarbital poisoning

The patient is initially excited, manic, and convulsed, and then becomes depressed, drowsy, confused, slurred, deep sleep, and even deep coma. In the late stage, the limbs are paralyzed, reflexes disappear, urinary and fecal incontinence occurs, pupil constriction occurs, breathing is shallow and light, and even respiratory failure occurs.

Chloral hydrate poisoning

Patients experience nausea and abdominal pain. In severe cases, there are symptoms such as liver and kidney damage, oliguria, drowsiness and even coma, shallow and slow breathing, cyanosis of the lips, respiratory muscle paralysis, loss of reflexes, weak pulse, decreased blood pressure, arrhythmia and even cardiac arrest.

Methaqualone poisoning: Patients have symptoms such as dizziness, unsteady gait, irritability, delirium, and may also experience respiratory depression, pulmonary edema and coma. A small number of patients have bleeding tendency or cerebral edema.

Through the above, I believe everyone has already understood what types of drug poisoning there are and what characteristics of the body can cause drug poisoning. In short, when we need to use certain medicines because of illness in our lives, it is best to go to the hospital for a skin test. Only after making sure that you will not be poisoned by the medicine can you continue to use it, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.