Koyama K, Yamashita M, Ogura Y, Ando Y, Fukuda T, Matsuzaki Y
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Vet Hum Toxicol. 1991 Oct;33(5):425-7.
All 651 cases of mothball ingestion received by a poison information center were studied. At each time of inquiry, the staff member asked the caller to test whether the mothball floated or sank in water and a saturated solution of table salt. With the results of the test the staff member identified the mothball ingredient. Though most of the callers were housewives with little knowledge of medicine, the differentiations were each completed within 5 min. Later, gas chromatographic analyses revealed that no errors in differentiations had been made. Our method proved a quick preliminary test for mothball component differentiation in poison information service.
对一家毒物信息中心收到的651例樟脑丸摄入病例进行了研究。每次询问时，工作人员都会让来电者测试樟脑丸在水和饱和食盐溶液中的沉浮情况。根据测试结果，工作人员确定樟脑丸的成分。尽管大多数来电者是对医学知之甚少的家庭主妇，但鉴别工作在5分钟内即可完成。后来的气相色谱分析表明，鉴别没有错误。我们的方法证明了在毒物信息服务中对樟脑丸成分进行快速初步鉴别的可行性。
