Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 341-343, March 2007

Methamphetamine Exposure Presenting as Caustic Ingestions in Children

Presented orally at the Helfer Society annual meeting, October 2005, New Paltz, NY.

  • Karen Farst, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Section of Children at Risk (Farst)
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Karen Farst, MD, Department of Pediatrics, Team for Children at Risk, 800 Marshall St, Slot 512-24A, Little Rock, AR 72202; 501-364-2650, fax 501-364-3939.
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  • Jay M. Duncan, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Critical Care Medicine (Duncan, Moss)
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  • Michele Moss, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Critical Care Medicine (Duncan, Moss)
    • ,
  • Richard M. Ray, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery (Ray)
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  • Evan Kokoska, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery (Kokoska)
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  • Laura P. James, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology (James), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR

Received 17 March 2006; received in revised form 4 May 2006; accepted 23 May 2006. published online 30 June 2006.

With the growing prevalence of methamphetamine use and production in home laboratories, children are at risk for injuries resulting from living in a drug-endangered environment. Although the ingestion of household cleaners is usually accidental and not a result of illicit drug use or production, medical providers must be aware of the chemicals associated with methamphetamine and illicit drug production to identify patients harmed in this environment. We present the first reported cases of children harmed by ingesting caustic substances used in the production of methamphetamine in the home.

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 Supervising editor: Richard C. Dart, MD, PhD

 Funding and support: The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(06)00705-0

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.05.020

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 49, Issue 3 , Pages 341-343, March 2007

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