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Sodium nitrite: not your cure-all remedy
A 52-year-old Caucasian male was transported to hospital via ambulance after being found at home by family, unconscious and slumped awkwardly for approximately 24 hours. On day 2 the patient divulged purchasing sodium nitrite online and self-administering after reading a website dedicated to euthanasia. Psychiatry reviewed and withheld his regular psychiatric medications. Methaemaglobin was found to be 2.5% (reference range 0%-1%). Toxicology was consulted and felt that sodium nitrite was not the cause of his organ dysfunction. Haemodialysis was started on day 4 to treat his acute kidney injury (AKI) from haempigment nephropathy cause by his long lie prior to admission. On day 17 the patient was unable to retain warfarin counselling information on sequential days. A Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was performed, scoring 13/30, with poor executive, visuospatial and verbal fluency. It was unclear if this was premorbid, but it was felt past history of ECT could have contributed.
Soton student died after consuming 100 times the safe dose of sodium nitrate
A University of Southampton student died after consuming a fatal amount of sodium nitrate, an inquest heard. Wira Wahyudi Sinuraya was found unresponsive on his bed by his housemates on February 14th this year. The 21-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services, who were called to his home on Honeysuckle Road. At Winchester Coroner's Court on Monday this week, an inquest into his death heard how a toxicologist found the level of nitrite in the student's body was over 100 times the expected concentration.
Autopsy: Medical examiner rules Florida Polytechnic University student killed himself
LAKELAND — The death of a student found last December on the campus of Florida Polytechnic University has been ruled a suicide. Dr. Stephen Nelson, medical examiner for the 10th Judicial Circuit, determined that Joshua Barton intentionally ingested sodium nitrite, an inorganic salt used as a food preservative. Barton, 29, was found in a wooded area on the Lakeland campus on Dec. 6. Nelson performed an autopsy the next day, and his office sent samples to the University of Florida Pathology Laboratory, which forwarded them to a laboratory in Pennsylvania for a toxicology analysis. The Medical Examiner's Office received a report from UF this month.
Mulher passa mal e morre após ingerir substância com nitrito de sódio em Luis Eduardo Magalhães
(Woman is sick and dies after ingesting substance with sodium nitrite in Luis Eduardo Magalhães)
lAt around 2:50 pm on Friday (02), a woman named Inezi Scychocki Serafine, 50, born in Erechim / Rio Grande do Sul, purposely took a substance with sodium nitrite, 20g diluted in 200ml of water. She was ill and was taken by her son to Clínica São Camilo, located on Rua Piauí in the center of Luis Eduardo Magalhães. Also according to information given to the Civil Police, the professionals of the health unit who were there did everything to save the life of the same, without success, afterwards they died. The Civil Police was informed of the incident and was at the scene. The Blogbraga team regrets what happened and leaves the condolences to the family of Ms. Inezi.
Donna morta a Barletta, non era sorbitolo ma nitrito di sodio
(Woman who died in Barletta, was not sorbitol but sodium nitrite)
It was sodium nitrite that killed Teresa Sunna, the 28 year old who died Saturday in a private gastroenterology center in Barletta. Sodium nitrite, a preservative authorized only for the conservation of meat, was present in the sorbitol E420 taken by the girl, as communicated last night by medical sources then confirmed by judicial sources: the substance had been purchased - probably in Ireland - in a pack of 5 chili like sorbitol on eBay. However, a package that contained sodium nitrite with a concentration of 70 percent. The toxicologist of the Poison Control Center of Pavia Carlo Locatelli explained that sodium nitrite is a very common substance, used as a preservative for food, with the same external appearance as sorbitol, with which it can therefore be easily exchanged. "Sodium nitrite, also known as saltpeter, is quite common, and in microdoses it is used as a preservative for food - explains Locatelli - given the speed with which the substance had acted in the case of the Barletta woman, one of the most probable hypotheses was just that it was this molecule." Nitrite has the appearance of a white powder, and the lethal dose for humans is set at around 22 milligrams per kilo of body weight. Its ingestion interferes with the transport of oxygen by the hemoglobin. It has antibacterial properties, which are exploited in the preservation of food, although recently some studies have shown a long-term carcinogenic effect of this substance.
Man, 28, found dead with woman, 24, in AirBnB cottage double-death tragedy
A man from the Midlands has been found dead alongside a woman in an AirBnb cottage. The double-death tragedy saw the 28-year-old male's body discovered with the female, aged 24. Police in Scotland are investigating the double-death of the Stoke-on-Trent man. Brett Stevens and the 24-year-old woman were found at the holiday cottage, reports StokeonTrentLive, our sister title. Police Scotland are not treating their deaths as suspicious and investigations continue. Now an inquest has revealed that Brett was living in Stoke-on-Trent before his sudden death. The identity of the woman has not been revealed. North Staffordshire assistant coroner Sarah Murphy said: "Brett Stevens died on December 5 at a holiday cottage in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. "He was identified by police officers and the brief circumstances are that he was staying in a holiday cottage in Scotland. The presumed cause of death is sodium nitrate toxicity."
Did a suicide website contribute to a young woman's death? Her family believes so
In the last moments of her life, Shawn Shatto turned to an internet forum. The 25-year-old woman had been in pain for some time, suffering from severe depression and anxiety. She had sought help, her mother said, seeking treatment for her illness from doctors and therapists, even a hypnotherapist. None of it seemed to ease the pain. She often felt as if she lived in a different world, her family said. "A square peg in a round hole kind of life," her sister said. "She didn't try to fit in," her sister said. "She didn't want to change for anybody." She would often say, "I don't want to live, but I don't want to die." On that day, May 22, a Wednesday, she logged onto the internet forum that had given her a means of escape, a forum dedicated to the topic of suicide. Her final message, preserved on her phone, read, "Just took it. I'm (bleeping) terrified." Another member of the forum responded, "Safe travels and I hope you find peace." The message was punctuated with a thumbs-up emoji. No one on the forum encouraged her to seek help. The only help they provided, her family says, was a recipe for her to end her own life. The past few weeks, her mother said she didn't notice anything wrong. There was no sign of what was to come. On that Wednesday morning, her mother, who works from home, saw her at about 11 or 12. She seemed fine. A couple of hours had passed and she hadn't heard from her daughter so she knocked on her bedroom door. She thought maybe Shawn was taking a nap. There was no response. She opened the door and walked in. Shawn was lying on the floor. She was blue. She was cold. She wasn't breathing. She started CPR and called 911. It was too late. Shawn was gone.
Sole survivor sheds light on suicide pact
How did three young men form a plan to commit suicide with the same ease as if they were organizing a weekend trip to the countryside? They were all unhappy with their jobs and had problems in their personal relationships, enough to unite them in tragedy, according to Ah You, 19, who was rescued but lost his cousin and friend. Ah You, his cousin Chen Jian, 21, and You's friend Li Xin, 19, met in park last Tuesday in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province and digested sodium nitrate. Ah You, in severe pain, called emergency services and was saved but his cousin and friend did not make it. "One person will be afraid of committing suicide, but the three of us gave each other enough courage," You told a local newspaper. "We decided to take the pills in turn, my cousin first, Xin second and me the last one."
Devastated family of bright 17-year-old from Marlow who took his own life remember his 'irreplaceable spark and kindness'
The devastated family of a 17-year-old boy who took his own life have issued a heartbreaking tribute remembering his "irreplaceable spark, kindness and wit". Robert Laurie Coates, from Marlow, was tragically found dead in woodland near Spinfield Lane in the town on March 8 this year. The bright Sir William Borlase's Grammar School pupil, who had a number of health issues and health anxiety, left a note on his iPad for his family, saying it was for this reason he was planning to take his own life. In his note, he thanked his mum, dad, two brothers Matthew and Alex and his other family and friends for "giving me a great life" and told him he loved them and wished them the best for the future. Senior coroner Crispin Butler ruled that Robert's death was suicide having "ingested a toxic substance"
Local artist Juanita Ainsley dies at 80
Juanita Ainsley, a local artist who also worked as an occupational therapist and psychologist, died earlier this week. She was 80 years old. La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said a welfare check conducted Wednesday found Ainsley dead at her home in the Forest Lakes subdivision, northeast of Durango. Ainsley, who had been dealing with health issues, had ingested a sodium nitrate powder mixed with water. She had died the same day she was found, Smith said. The death was ruled a suicide, Smith said. No autopsy is required, she said.
Teacher accused of poisoning nearly two dozen children in China
A kindergarten teacher has been arrested in eastern China after 23 students were sickened in a suspected act of deliberate poisoning, police said Tuesday. The teacher is believed to have poisoned the children's food with sodium nitrite, the Jiaozuo city police said on their official microblog.
Authorities agree to keep up fight for life of brain-dead Chinese boy 'poisoned by kindergarten teacher'
A district government in central China has agreed to keep trying to save a brain-dead kindergarten boy allegedly poisoned along with more than 20 other students by a teacher in late March. Wang Junxi, five, remained in a coma and showed no signs of improvement, the Jiefang district government in Jiaozuo, Henan province, said in an online statement on Saturday night, after his parents complained online that officials had asked them to abandon treatment of the boy. Junxi, who is being kept alive by a life-support machine, was among 23 children at a kindergarten who ate porridge contaminated with sodium nitrite on March 27.
Indore: Bodies of couple, twins found in resort, gambling debts force family to commit suicide
Bodies of four people belonging from the same family were found from a famous resort in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on Thursday evening. Among the dead were software engineer Abhishek Saxena, his wife Preeti Saxena and their 14-year-old twins – son Advait and daughter Ananya. Police have sent the bodies for of the victims for autopsy, while the forensic team collected evidence from the scene. According to the police investigation, the family died by consuming sodium nitrate which was found from the hotel room.
Man killed himself after taking hazardous chemical sparking major bio-hazard emergency, inquest hears
A MAN killed himself after taking a hazardous chemical sparking a major bio-hazard emergency, an inquest has heard. Twenty-five year-old Ashley Walker died after taking a lethal dose of sodium nitrite. Emergency services were called just after 1.30pm on August 12 and sealed off the area around the house on Oaks Road in Kenilworth.
Man who swallowed toxic substance could have lived but for communication breakdown
A MAN who took his own life after taking a toxic substance might have lived had there not been a communication breakdown, an inquest has heard. Ashley Walker died after taking a lethal dose of sodium nitrite at his home on Oaks Road in Kenilworth last August. The 25-year-old called emergency services and when the ambulance crew arrived he was unconscious. They provided Mr Walker with oxygen and said his levels of consciousness showed slight improvement as his limbs began to move. But the crew was told to leave the house by the ambulance operations manager who believed they were dealing with a spillage rather than the swallowing of the substance.
Sodium nitrite: not your cure-all remedy
A 52-year-old Caucasian male was transported to hospital via ambulance after being found at home by family, unconscious and slumped awkwardly for approximately 24 hours. On day 2 the patient divulged purchasing sodium nitrite online and self-administering after reading a website dedicated to euthanasia. Psychiatry reviewed and withheld his regular psychiatric medications. Methaemaglobin was found to be 2.5% (reference range 0%-1%). Toxicology was consulted and felt that sodium nitrite was not the cause of his organ dysfunction. Haemodialysis was started on day 4 to treat his acute kidney injury (AKI) from haempigment nephropathy cause by his long lie prior to admission. On day 17 the patient was unable to retain warfarin counselling information on sequential days. A Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was performed, scoring 13/30, with poor executive, visuospatial and verbal fluency. It was unclear if this was premorbid, but it was felt past history of ECT could have contributed.
Soton student died after consuming 100 times the safe dose of sodium nitrate
A University of Southampton student died after consuming a fatal amount of sodium nitrate, an inquest heard. Wira Wahyudi Sinuraya was found unresponsive on his bed by his housemates on February 14th this year. The 21-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services, who were called to his home on Honeysuckle Road. At Winchester Coroner's Court on Monday this week, an inquest into his death heard how a toxicologist found the level of nitrite in the student's body was over 100 times the expected concentration.
Autopsy: Medical examiner rules Florida Polytechnic University student killed himself
LAKELAND — The death of a student found last December on the campus of Florida Polytechnic University has been ruled a suicide. Dr. Stephen Nelson, medical examiner for the 10th Judicial Circuit, determined that Joshua Barton intentionally ingested sodium nitrite, an inorganic salt used as a food preservative. Barton, 29, was found in a wooded area on the Lakeland campus on Dec. 6. Nelson performed an autopsy the next day, and his office sent samples to the University of Florida Pathology Laboratory, which forwarded them to a laboratory in Pennsylvania for a toxicology analysis. The Medical Examiner's Office received a report from UF this month.
Mulher passa mal e morre após ingerir substância com nitrito de sódio em Luis Eduardo Magalhães
(Woman is sick and dies after ingesting substance with sodium nitrite in Luis Eduardo Magalhães)
lAt around 2:50 pm on Friday (02), a woman named Inezi Scychocki Serafine, 50, born in Erechim / Rio Grande do Sul, purposely took a substance with sodium nitrite, 20g diluted in 200ml of water. She was ill and was taken by her son to Clínica São Camilo, located on Rua Piauí in the center of Luis Eduardo Magalhães. Also according to information given to the Civil Police, the professionals of the health unit who were there did everything to save the life of the same, without success, afterwards they died. The Civil Police was informed of the incident and was at the scene. The Blogbraga team regrets what happened and leaves the condolences to the family of Ms. Inezi.
Donna morta a Barletta, non era sorbitolo ma nitrito di sodio
(Woman who died in Barletta, was not sorbitol but sodium nitrite)
It was sodium nitrite that killed Teresa Sunna, the 28 year old who died Saturday in a private gastroenterology center in Barletta. Sodium nitrite, a preservative authorized only for the conservation of meat, was present in the sorbitol E420 taken by the girl, as communicated last night by medical sources then confirmed by judicial sources: the substance had been purchased - probably in Ireland - in a pack of 5 chili like sorbitol on eBay. However, a package that contained sodium nitrite with a concentration of 70 percent. The toxicologist of the Poison Control Center of Pavia Carlo Locatelli explained that sodium nitrite is a very common substance, used as a preservative for food, with the same external appearance as sorbitol, with which it can therefore be easily exchanged. "Sodium nitrite, also known as saltpeter, is quite common, and in microdoses it is used as a preservative for food - explains Locatelli - given the speed with which the substance had acted in the case of the Barletta woman, one of the most probable hypotheses was just that it was this molecule." Nitrite has the appearance of a white powder, and the lethal dose for humans is set at around 22 milligrams per kilo of body weight. Its ingestion interferes with the transport of oxygen by the hemoglobin. It has antibacterial properties, which are exploited in the preservation of food, although recently some studies have shown a long-term carcinogenic effect of this substance.
Man, 28, found dead with woman, 24, in AirBnB cottage double-death tragedy
A man from the Midlands has been found dead alongside a woman in an AirBnb cottage. The double-death tragedy saw the 28-year-old male's body discovered with the female, aged 24. Police in Scotland are investigating the double-death of the Stoke-on-Trent man. Brett Stevens and the 24-year-old woman were found at the holiday cottage, reports StokeonTrentLive, our sister title. Police Scotland are not treating their deaths as suspicious and investigations continue. Now an inquest has revealed that Brett was living in Stoke-on-Trent before his sudden death. The identity of the woman has not been revealed. North Staffordshire assistant coroner Sarah Murphy said: "Brett Stevens died on December 5 at a holiday cottage in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire. "He was identified by police officers and the brief circumstances are that he was staying in a holiday cottage in Scotland. The presumed cause of death is sodium nitrate toxicity."
Did a suicide website contribute to a young woman's death? Her family believes so
In the last moments of her life, Shawn Shatto turned to an internet forum. The 25-year-old woman had been in pain for some time, suffering from severe depression and anxiety. She had sought help, her mother said, seeking treatment for her illness from doctors and therapists, even a hypnotherapist. None of it seemed to ease the pain. She often felt as if she lived in a different world, her family said. "A square peg in a round hole kind of life," her sister said. "She didn't try to fit in," her sister said. "She didn't want to change for anybody." She would often say, "I don't want to live, but I don't want to die." On that day, May 22, a Wednesday, she logged onto the internet forum that had given her a means of escape, a forum dedicated to the topic of suicide. Her final message, preserved on her phone, read, "Just took it. I'm (bleeping) terrified." Another member of the forum responded, "Safe travels and I hope you find peace." The message was punctuated with a thumbs-up emoji. No one on the forum encouraged her to seek help. The only help they provided, her family says, was a recipe for her to end her own life. The past few weeks, her mother said she didn't notice anything wrong. There was no sign of what was to come. On that Wednesday morning, her mother, who works from home, saw her at about 11 or 12. She seemed fine. A couple of hours had passed and she hadn't heard from her daughter so she knocked on her bedroom door. She thought maybe Shawn was taking a nap. There was no response. She opened the door and walked in. Shawn was lying on the floor. She was blue. She was cold. She wasn't breathing. She started CPR and called 911. It was too late. Shawn was gone.
Sole survivor sheds light on suicide pact
How did three young men form a plan to commit suicide with the same ease as if they were organizing a weekend trip to the countryside? They were all unhappy with their jobs and had problems in their personal relationships, enough to unite them in tragedy, according to Ah You, 19, who was rescued but lost his cousin and friend. Ah You, his cousin Chen Jian, 21, and You's friend Li Xin, 19, met in park last Tuesday in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province and digested sodium nitrate. Ah You, in severe pain, called emergency services and was saved but his cousin and friend did not make it. "One person will be afraid of committing suicide, but the three of us gave each other enough courage," You told a local newspaper. "We decided to take the pills in turn, my cousin first, Xin second and me the last one."
Devastated family of bright 17-year-old from Marlow who took his own life remember his 'irreplaceable spark and kindness'
The devastated family of a 17-year-old boy who took his own life have issued a heartbreaking tribute remembering his "irreplaceable spark, kindness and wit". Robert Laurie Coates, from Marlow, was tragically found dead in woodland near Spinfield Lane in the town on March 8 this year. The bright Sir William Borlase's Grammar School pupil, who had a number of health issues and health anxiety, left a note on his iPad for his family, saying it was for this reason he was planning to take his own life. In his note, he thanked his mum, dad, two brothers Matthew and Alex and his other family and friends for "giving me a great life" and told him he loved them and wished them the best for the future. Senior coroner Crispin Butler ruled that Robert's death was suicide having "ingested a toxic substance"
Local artist Juanita Ainsley dies at 80
Juanita Ainsley, a local artist who also worked as an occupational therapist and psychologist, died earlier this week. She was 80 years old. La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said a welfare check conducted Wednesday found Ainsley dead at her home in the Forest Lakes subdivision, northeast of Durango. Ainsley, who had been dealing with health issues, had ingested a sodium nitrate powder mixed with water. She had died the same day she was found, Smith said. The death was ruled a suicide, Smith said. No autopsy is required, she said.
Teacher accused of poisoning nearly two dozen children in China
A kindergarten teacher has been arrested in eastern China after 23 students were sickened in a suspected act of deliberate poisoning, police said Tuesday. The teacher is believed to have poisoned the children's food with sodium nitrite, the Jiaozuo city police said on their official microblog.
Authorities agree to keep up fight for life of brain-dead Chinese boy 'poisoned by kindergarten teacher'
A district government in central China has agreed to keep trying to save a brain-dead kindergarten boy allegedly poisoned along with more than 20 other students by a teacher in late March. Wang Junxi, five, remained in a coma and showed no signs of improvement, the Jiefang district government in Jiaozuo, Henan province, said in an online statement on Saturday night, after his parents complained online that officials had asked them to abandon treatment of the boy. Junxi, who is being kept alive by a life-support machine, was among 23 children at a kindergarten who ate porridge contaminated with sodium nitrite on March 27.
Indore: Bodies of couple, twins found in resort, gambling debts force family to commit suicide
Bodies of four people belonging from the same family were found from a famous resort in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, on Thursday evening. Among the dead were software engineer Abhishek Saxena, his wife Preeti Saxena and their 14-year-old twins – son Advait and daughter Ananya. Police have sent the bodies for of the victims for autopsy, while the forensic team collected evidence from the scene. According to the police investigation, the family died by consuming sodium nitrate which was found from the hotel room.
Man killed himself after taking hazardous chemical sparking major bio-hazard emergency, inquest hears
A MAN killed himself after taking a hazardous chemical sparking a major bio-hazard emergency, an inquest has heard. Twenty-five year-old Ashley Walker died after taking a lethal dose of sodium nitrite. Emergency services were called just after 1.30pm on August 12 and sealed off the area around the house on Oaks Road in Kenilworth.
Man who swallowed toxic substance could have lived but for communication breakdown
A MAN who took his own life after taking a toxic substance might have lived had there not been a communication breakdown, an inquest has heard. Ashley Walker died after taking a lethal dose of sodium nitrite at his home on Oaks Road in Kenilworth last August. The 25-year-old called emergency services and when the ambulance crew arrived he was unconscious. They provided Mr Walker with oxygen and said his levels of consciousness showed slight improvement as his limbs began to move. But the crew was told to leave the house by the ambulance operations manager who believed they were dealing with a spillage rather than the swallowing of the substance.
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