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Report of Two Cases of Acrodynia Appearing After Calomel Theraphy but Without Excretion of Mercury in the Urine and Cured With B. A. L.
Author(s) -
HOUET RENÉ
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1952.tb17015.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mercury (programming language) , urine , mercury poisoning , physiology , ingestion , excretion , dermatology , toxicity , computer science , programming language
Summary Report of two cases of acrodynia appearing three and five weeks after ingestion of calomel are reported. Treatment with large amounts of pyridoxin was ineffective, but the two children recovered quickly after B. A. L. therapy. Using a specific and sensitive method (polarography) no mercury could be found in the urine passed before and during B. A. L. treatment. The author questions if the W arkany ‐F anconi theory of acrodynia being a sensitization to some mercury salte is not too dogmatic to fit to all cases of acrodynia.