1. INTOXICATION PAR LA PARA-PHENYLENE-DIAMINE CHEZ LES CARNIVORES DOMESTIQUES: CAS CLINIQUE, DIAGNOSTIC ET TRAITEMENT.
- Author
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HADIJI, R., ALI, Y. CHEIKH, and BEN YOUSSEF, S.
- Abstract
Para-phenylenediamine (PPD), also called paraaminobenzene, is an aromatic amine derived from aniline. PPD intoxication is little known in Europe, but widespread in humans in Asia, Middle East and North Africa, including Tunisia, where this substance is widely used by women for a cosmetic purpose. This chemical element is referred to as "Dabgha Roumia" or "black stone". The knowledge of toxicity of "Dabgha Roumia" led to its use it in poisoned baits in malicious intoxications against dogs and cats. Thus, paraphenylenediamine (PPD) poisoning in domestic carnivores is emerging in Tunisia, since 2017. No description of PPD intoxication regarding domestic carnivores is available in literature yet, hence the importance of describing its clinical specificities; toxicological analysis is obviously of great interest in confirming the clinical diagnosis, to develop toxicological diagnostic tools and implement a therapeutic protocol. The severity of the PPD intoxication involves the animal's vital prognosis, which imposes certain knowledge of its clinical manifestations by veterinary practitioners, for an efficient therapeutic management. In this paper, after an extensive literature review, we describe the clinical features of PPD poisoning in domestic carnivores, the poisoning being analytically confirmed by 2 qualitative methods and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). In addition, we are implementing a therapeutic protocol based on emetic, corticosteroids and vitamin C. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020