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Lessons to be learned: a case study approach

Unseasonal severe poisoning of two adults by deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)

Worthing Hospital, Worthing, East Sussex

M. Egerton

West Park Hospital, Epsom, Surrey

E.A. Dauncey

Plant Toxicologist, Medical Toxicology Unit, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Trust, New Cross, London and Head of Nightshade at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey

Unseasonal, mid-winter, severe poisoning by deadly nightshade is reported in two adults who simultaneously ate from a pie made of frozen deadly nightshade berries, mistaken at the time of picking for bilberries. Atropine levels are report ed in the urine. Physostigmine treatment was ineffective.

Key Words: Atropine poisoning • creatine kinase • deadly nightshade • gastroparesis • physostigmine

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 120, No. 2, 127-130 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/146642400012000212


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