What Are the Symptoms of Oral Cyanide Poisoning?
Question by Ann Onn Emoose: What are the symptoms of oral cyanide poisoning?
I’m writing and one of my characters has been poisoned by cyanide in the drink.
What are the symptoms of poisoning?
Best answer:
Answer by David B
increased respiratory rate and air hunger, unconsciousness and death from hypoxia. odor of “bitter almonds” on the breath (dont know what that smells like never smelled it)
Answer by Idiolatry
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/cyanide_poisoning/page3_em.htm#Cyanide%20Poisoning%20Symptoms
* General weakness, confusion, bizarre behavior, excessive sleepiness, coma, shortness of breath, headache, dizziness, and seizures all can be seen with cyanide poisoning.
* Typically, an acute ingestion will have a dramatic, rapid onset immediately affecting the heart and causing sudden collapse. Or it can immediately affect the brain and cause a seizure or coma.
* Chronic poisoning (over time) from ingestion or environmental poisoning will have a more gradual onset.
* The skin of a cyanide-poisoned person can sometimes be unusually pink or cherry-red because oxygen will stay in the blood and not get into the cells. The person may also be breathing very fast and have either a very fast or very slow heartbeat. Sometimes the person’s breath can smell like bitter almonds, though this can be difficult to detect.
* Perhaps most important is the setting, rather than the signs or symptoms.
o If someone in your family works in a laboratory or plastics factory, then he or she is at higher risk.
o All fires should of course be taken seriously, and there is always the additional concern of cyanide exposure.
o Most important, if you know someone has been depressed or has substance abuse problems and you find him or her with any of the signs or symptoms, then a suicide attempt is possible.
http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic118.htm
http://www.healthtouch.com/bin/EContent_HT/cnoteShowLfts.asp?fname=07116&title=CYANIDE+POISONING+&cid=HTHLTH
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