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- Jul 21, 2019
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The OP mentions that the effects of SN are completely reversible, but I remember reading a medical article where brain images of a victim of SN poisoning showed effects similar to that of carbon monoxide poisoning. To me that would mean similar sequelae too. I'll try to find the article again and post it here.
EDIT: Found it.
"Severe Methemoglobinemia due to Sodium Nitrite Poisoning" : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987464/
28-year-old man, brought to emergency one hour after ingesting 15g of SN. There's a line in the Abstract I didn't catch before though " The patient was discharged on day 7 without neurologic impairment". However CO sequelae (which I'm comparing here) often takes weeks to appear.
Relevant bit:
All that said, maybe I'm wrong on this. But it doesn't hurt to bring this info up, I suppose.
EDIT: Found it.
"Severe Methemoglobinemia due to Sodium Nitrite Poisoning" : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987464/
28-year-old man, brought to emergency one hour after ingesting 15g of SN. There's a line in the Abstract I didn't catch before though " The patient was discharged on day 7 without neurologic impairment". However CO sequelae (which I'm comparing here) often takes weeks to appear.
Relevant bit:
Cranial T2-weighted MRI findings 3 days after sodium nitrite ingestion were similar to those in carbon monoxide poisoning. It has been reported that the globus pallidus is most susceptible to hypoxia. Severe methemoglobinemia can cause severe tissue hypoxia similar to that in carbon monoxide poisoning; this may explain the involvement of the globus pallidus in our case.
All that said, maybe I'm wrong on this. But it doesn't hurt to bring this info up, I suppose.
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