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Oleander poisoning
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The nerium and yellow oleander are both
poisonous plants. Accidental poisoning can occur by ingestion (as
little as one leaf of the nerium oleander may be lethal in children),
by inhalation of smoke from burning oleander, or from the use of
medical preparations from the leaves of oleander which have been used
as treatments for malaria, leprosy, venereal diseases, and to induce
abortions. Deliberate poisoning has been recorded in suicide attempts
and in criminal cases. The American Association of Poison Control Centres received 3873 reports of oleander exposure between 1991 and
1995 (Clin Chemistry
1996;42:1654-8). Oleander is also used as
an animal poison, which is best illustrated by its role as a rat
poison. All parts of the nerium oleander are poisonous, primarily
due to the contained cardiac glycosides
that is, oleandrin, nerin,
digitoxigenin, and olinerin of which oleandrin is the principal toxin.
The bark also contains rosagenin which
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