英国疑似儿童农药中毒事件。I——家庭事故监测系统，1982 - 1988年。

Suspected paediatric pesticide poisoning in the UK. I--Home Accident Surveillance System 1982-1988.

Casey P B, Thompson J P, Vale J A

Pesticide Monitoring Unit, West Midlands Poisons Unit, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, UK.

Hum Exp Toxicol. 1994 Aug;13(8):529-33. doi: 10.1177/096032719401300803.

Abstract

Between 1982 and 1988, 239,350 children under 10 years old attended 20 A & E Departments in England and Wales (22 departments throughout the UK in 1988) as a result of a home accident. 15,144 of 239,350 were suspected cases of poisoning and 514 attendances involved pesticides. 2. 501 of 514 children who attended hospital were under 6 years old and 41% were thought to have ingested a rodenticide, 37% an insecticide or other animal poison, 13% an herbicide or fungicide and 9% other pesticides. 3. Overall 189 of 514 children were admitted to hospital and of these 189 cases 35% were discharged home in less than one day; 94% left hospital within 2 days. 4. Using these data we estimate that over the period of study approximately 1,850 children annually attended an Accident and Emergency Department in the UK with suspected pesticide poisoning and that some 450 were admitted to hospital. However, the morbidity from this cause is low and no deaths from pesticide poisoning have been reported in children in England and Wales for more than two decades.

摘要

1982年至1988年间，英国和威尔士的20个急诊科（1988年全英国有22个科室）共接待了239,350名10岁以下因家庭事故前来就诊的儿童。在这239,350名儿童中，有15,144例为疑似中毒病例，其中514例涉及农药中毒。
前往医院就诊的514名儿童中，501名年龄在6岁以下，其中41%被认为摄入了灭鼠剂，37%摄入了杀虫剂或其他动物毒药，13%摄入了除草剂或杀菌剂，9%摄入了其他农药。
总体而言，514名儿童中有189名住院，其中35%在不到一天的时间内出院；94%在两天内出院。
根据这些数据，我们估计在研究期间，英国每年约有1,850名儿童因疑似农药中毒前往急诊科就诊，约450名儿童住院。然而，由此导致的发病率较低，在英格兰和威尔士，二十多年来未报告有儿童因农药中毒死亡的病例。