Old man in Hanoi ate 20 rat poison pills because he thought they were candy.

Old maneat about 20 rat poison pillsarfarin.The patient was discovered by his family and taken to the hospital in time so he was not injured.seriously affected

Doctors performed gastric lavage on the patient and closely monitored blood clotting function and bleeding. The old man was then given a specific antidote. 5The following day he was discharged from the hospital and made a full recovery, without complications.

Doctor Nguyen Thi Nga,The Department of Intensive Care, 108 Central Military Hospital said, wWarfarin is an anticoagulant widely used in medicine. Warfarin is also used in agriculture and in daily life to kill rats. The widespread use of this rat poison increases the risk of poisoning to humans when it is not managed properly or taken by mistake.

Warfarin toxicity causes bleeding when using an overdose or being exposed to super warfarin. Usually, the patient has no clinical symptoms in the first 1-2 days. Bleeding occurs after 2-3 days, at different levels such as bleeding gums, nosebleeds, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, brain bleeding, hematoma in the muscle...Other symptoms that may occur are drowsiness, headache, motor coordination disorders, abdominal pain, nausea. More severe symptoms include rhabdomyolysis, respiratory failure, convulsions, coma, and blood clotting disorders.

The patient should be taken to an emergency medical facility within the first 6 hours to apply measures to prevent absorption of the poison such as gastric lavage, activated charcoal and the use of specific antidotes. If the patient is detected and treated late, when complications of internal bleeding such as lung, digestive, urinary, abdominal, central nervous system occur, it is dangerous.