It turns out that drug poisoning symptoms can be divided into these six categories

As we all know, medicine is three-part poison. Although medicine can treat diseases in the human body, if it is taken improperly, it will cause poisoning. The most common symptoms of drug poisoning in daily life are the following 6. Everyone must remember them and not cause greater harm to the body due to momentary negligence.

1. Chlorpromazine poisoning

Patients may experience dizziness, drowsiness, apathy, weakness, and sometimes mental disorders, incoherent talking and moving. Drooling, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, jaundice, hepatomegaly, etc. may also occur.

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.

If patients take this type of drug for a long time or in large quantities, it will lead to a decrease in granulocytes and platelets, and symptoms of hemolytic anemia, and in severe cases, hemolytic anemia will occur.

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.

2. Poisoning by phenobarbital, amobarbital, or secobarbital

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.

3. 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.

Patients poisoned by methaqualone will experience symptoms such as dizziness, unsteady gait, and irritability, but some patients may also experience respiratory depression, pulmonary edema, and coma.

4. Digitalis poisoning

Digitalis drugs are mainly used to treat congestive heart failure, but their therapeutic dose is very close to the toxic dose. The elderly have poor tolerance and are very prone to poisoning.

When poisoned by digitalis, patients experience headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, yellow vision, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and various heart rhythm abnormalities such as premature ventricular contractions, paroxysmal atrial tachycardia, and atrioventricular conduction block. Some patients who originally had atrial fibrillation suddenly had a regular heart rhythm and the electrocardiogram showed a typical digitalis poisoning pattern.

5. Atropine and scopolamine poisoning

The patient first has symptoms of parasympathetic inhibition, such as dry skin and mucous membranes, thirst, dysphagia, facial flushing, dilated pupils, blurred vision, tachycardia, and urinary retention.

Severely ill patients experience symptoms of central nervous system excitement: increased speech, hallucinations, irritability, delirium, convulsions, etc. This progresses to depression, drowsiness, and coma. People poisoned by scopolamine are more drowsy than excited. At this time, taking a few drops of the patient's urine and dropping them into the cat's eyes can cause the pupil to dilate, which is helpful for diagnosis.

6. Sodium salicylate and aspirin poisoning

Patients may experience nausea, vomiting, and stomach pain due to the drug's irritating and corrosive effects on the gastrointestinal tract, as well as dizziness, sweating, flushed face, tinnitus, nosebleeds, blurred vision, gastrointestinal bleeding, proteinuria, ketonuria, early respiratory alkali poisoning, followed by metabolic acidosis, dehydration, and potassium loss. Severe cases may experience irritability, rapid pulse, convulsions, coma, respiratory and peripheral circulatory failure.