tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9870114.post5119015696028152528..comments2024-03-10T08:41:32.400+00:00Comments on VIRTUAL GRAND ROUNDS IN DERMATOLOGY 2.0: No Man is an IslandHumane Medicine Huihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07113291188306363130noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9870114.post-87270413998539348732008-05-09T05:26:00.000+00:002008-05-09T05:26:00.000+00:00Nice presentation and good lesson. what is the rol...Nice presentation and good lesson. what is the role of zinc in thallium toxication? does high serum thallium result in acute zinc deficiency?. If so please evaluate serum level of both elements otherwise it has a healing and regenerating effect upon damaged targets which seemed wonderful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9870114.post-75894670145130679522008-05-06T21:20:00.000+00:002008-05-06T21:20:00.000+00:00Thanks a lot for prof. sharquie who brought our at...Thanks a lot for prof. sharquie who brought our attention to this valuable observation.Two days ago i saw a newly married women who lost her nice hair with two of her sisters after ingesting cake also.All patients showed purpuric rash that affected mostly the face ,buttock &limbs look like that of zink diffency associated with arthraligia and anagen hair loss.I think that these cases are also due to thallium poisioning silimar to cases of prof. sharquie so i gave them zinc sulphate & i hope that this poor lady &her sisters will be better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9870114.post-52584353348252191152008-04-30T15:30:00.000+00:002008-04-30T15:30:00.000+00:00Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. Th...Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. This is an important observation so that we are aware of this condition. I noticed most of the thallium poisoning cases in Iraq are from food contamination. There was apparently another case of thallium poisoning in February 2008 where members of Iraqi air force club and some of their children were poisoned by cake laced with thallium. Two of the children died. (Ref: Poison cake kills Iraqi children, news.bbc.co.uk, February 9, 2008.) The successful treatment with oral zinc for the skin manifestation is remarkable. Wonder if the patients were treated also with oral activated charcoal and Prussian Blue too?Henry Foonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804592640968503188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9870114.post-2968832310134548522008-04-27T18:58:00.000+00:002008-04-27T18:58:00.000+00:00I would like to express my great thanks to prof. s...I would like to express my great thanks to prof. sharquie for this valuable observation..about 2 months ago an outbreak of greatly suspected thallium poisoning was observed in Basra, southern Iraq.. they were all boys came to the hospital complaining of sudden onset of fever, joint pain & anagen hair loss.. all patients reported eating cooked rice in Ashoora feasts..I then asked the local health authority & toxicology center to trace for thallium in these cases..On follow up of many of these cases complete recovery was achieved after treatment with zn sulphate orally.. It remained to be answered what had been reported in basra was related in some way or another to the current cases..as prof. sharquie comment some try to use thallium to kill Iraqi people.. samer A dhaher..Basra .IraqAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com