Clinical Toxicology · 2011 · 59 citations · 30 references
Plant ingestion exposures remain a common call to poison information centers. However, the volume of those calls has decreased steadily over the last three decades. Most plant ingestion exposures occur in children, specifically children ≤5 years of age. Within this age group, there were an inordinate number of exposures in children <1 year of age, a previously unidentified finding with an unknown epidemiological basis. Morbidity and mortality associated with plant ingestion exposures were very low relative to the total number of reported exposures.
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