• Title of article

    A Case of Sinusal Bradycardia Caused by Mad Honey Toxicity

  • Author/Authors

    Akın, Aynur Erciyes Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye , Çoruh, Aliye Esmaoğlu Erciyes Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye , Efesoy, Şükran Nergiz Erciyes Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye , Bayram, Adnan Erciyes Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye , Avşaroğulları, Levent Erciyes Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Acil Tıp Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye

  • From page
    229
  • To page
    231
  • Abstract
    Mad honey intoxication is an intoxication that is resulted after eating honey called grayanotoxin which is made by plants of Rhodendron class in the Ericaceae family. It can cause mild symptoms like diziness, nause, vomiting to serious cardiac problems like hypotension, bradicardia, AV bloc. In this case we discussed a patient who admitted emergency servise with dizziness, weakness, nausea, excessive sweating and had hypotension and bradicardia in electrocardiography after more detailed anamnesis and we discovered that our patient had eaten honey just fourtyfive minutes before the beginning of the symptoms.
  • Keywords
    Grayanotoksin , rhododendron , intoxication
  • Journal title
    Erciyes Medical Journal
  • Journal title
    Erciyes Medical Journal
  • Record number

    2597328