Posts

Showing posts from February, 2022

19F presented with involuntary movements and yellowish discoloration of sclera

Image
A 19 year female came to casualty with active seizures and a history of intake of rat poison 11 days ago.  HISTORY OF PRESENTING ILLNESS History of intake of rat poison powder followed by two episodes of vomiting with food as contents and yellowish discoloration of eyes. History of generalized seizures with the 2-5 episodes for past since 11 days 11 days back there was a disturbance in the family in between the patient and her father due to alteration in the career of the patient. Due to that disturbance, she made a suicide attempt by ingesting rat poison powder. Then they went to nalgonda govt hospital and were admitted on the same day .Then on the next day she got 1 episode of a seizure. Then she continued to have seizures of 5 to 6 episodes every day.  They were referred to our hospital . PAST HISTORY -  NOT A KNOWN CASE OF  HTN, DM , EPILEPSY , ASTHMA , TB PERSONAL HISTORY : DIET - MIXED APPETITE -NORMAL , BOWEL MOVEMENT - REGULAR ,  BLADDER MOVEMENTS - REGULAR, ADDICTIONS(ALCOHOL