David Gunnell, Duleeka Knipe, Shu‐Sen Chang, Melissa Pearson et al.
BACKGROUND: Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14-20% of suicides worldwide. Regulation aimed at restricting access to pesticides or banning highly hazardous pesticides is one approach to reducing these deaths. We systematically reviewed the evidence of the effectiveness of pesticide regulation i...
Mohammed Hanif, Mahmoud Mobarak, Anne Ronan, Md. Anisur Rahman et al.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the cause of a large increase in the number of children with unexplained renal failure. DESIGN: Case-control study. SETTING: Children's hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. SUBJECTS: Cases were all 339 children with initially unexplained renal failure; controls were 90 children wit...
Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, Gourab Dewan, Vasundhara Verma, Duleeka Knipe et al.
Background: Pesticide self-poisoning is a major problem in Bangladesh. Over the past 20-years, the Bangladesh government has introduced pesticide legislation and banned highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) from agricultural use. We aimed to assess the impacts of pesticide bans on suicide and on agricu...
Behrooz Hashemi-Domeneh, Nasim Zamani, Hossein Hassanian‐Moghaddam, Mitra Rahimi et al.
The use of pesticides such as aluminium phosphide (AlP) has increased in the recent years and improved the quantity and quality of agricultural products in a number of developing countries. The downside is that AlP causes severe chronic and acute health effects that have reached major proportions in...
Mohammed Joynal Abedin, Abdullah Abu Sayeed, Ariful Basher, Richard J. Maude et al.
Severe organophosphate compound (OPC) poisoning is an important clinical problem in many countries of the world. Unfortunately, little clinical research has been performed and little evidence exists with which to determine the best therapy. A study was therefore undertaken to determine the optimal d...
Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Caroline Daly, S. M. Yasir Arafat, Ella Arensman
This chapter provides an update on suicide and suicide prevention in the Southeast Asia Region, which covers 11 low- and middle-income countries, accounting for 26% of the world's population. More than one third (39%) of all suicides globally, occur in this region, with the highest suicide rate of 1...
Ching-Soon Ng, Abul Hasnat, Abdullah Al Maruf, Maizbha Uddin Ahmed et al.
Purpose This study aims to assess whether NAT2 genotype affects susceptibility to moderate to severe liver injury in patients undergoing drug treatment for tuberculosis with isoniazid-containing regimens. Methods Twenty-six patients of European or South Asian ethnicity, who had suffered liver injury...
P. Gopalakrishnakone, Abul Faiz, Ravindra Fernando, Christeine Ariaranee Gnanathasan et al.
Sakib Aman, Shrebash Paul, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury
Organophosphorus (OP) compounds remain a leading cause of self-poisoning and mortality, especially in South East Asia, China, and Africa. Organophosphorus causes an acute cholinergic syndrome by inhibiting acetylcholinesterase. Atropine remains the mainstay of treatment, but recently some promising ...
Ariful Basher, SHAHZAD RAHMAN, Aniruddha Ghose, SyedM Arif et al.
BACKGROUND: Acute organophosphorus (OP) poisoning is relatively common and a major cause of death from poisoning in developing countries. Magnesium has been shown to be of benefit in animal models. METHODS: We conducted a phase II study of bolus doses of (MgSO4) in 50 patients with acute organophosp...
Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury, H A M Nazmul Ahasan, A. K. M. Mamunur Rashid, Abdullah Al Mamun et al.
INTRODUCTION: Puffer fish (tetrodotoxin) poisoning is now a common form of poisoning throughout coastal countries, but its diagnosis and management are still unclear. In this paper, we aim to share our experience and to find out the toxic manifestations, lag period between ingestion of fish and deve...
Ning Wang, Qingtao Jiang, Lei Han, Hengdong Zhang et al.
To investigate the characteristics of pesticide poisoning in Jiangsu province and provide a scientific basis for measures for the prevention of pesticide poisoning. Information from pesticide poisoning report cards from 2007 to 2016 was derived from the Occupational Disease and Occupational Health I...
Gourab Dewan
Background: Pesticide poisoning is a common method of suicide attempt and less commonly accidental poisoning in Bangladesh. This review for the first time estimated the extent and characteristics of pesticide poisoning in Bangladesh and explored existing limitations in methodologies of studies done ...
H A M Nazmul Ahasan, MMH Chowdhury, Mishah Azhar, A K M Rafiqueuddin
A number of cases of copper sulphate poisoning from the southern region of Bangladesh are presented. There was a high mortality (24.9%) in comparison to other forms of poisoning. Hepatotoxicity, acute renal failure and gastrointestinal bleeding were the main complications. This degree of copper sulp...
Michael Eddleston, Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury