PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jhuma Sankar
AU  - Amelin Shukla
AU  - Rohit Khurana,
AU  - Nandkishore Dubey
TI  - Near fatal iron intoxication managed conservatively
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2012-007670
DP  - 2013 Jan 31
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - bcr2012007670
VI  - 2013
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2013/bcr-2012-007670.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2013/bcr-2012-007670.full
AB  - We report here the case of an infant who presented to the emergency department after unintentional ingestion of almost 130 mg/kg of elemental iron. The infant had evidence of serious toxicity in the form of hypotension, metabolic acidosis and excessive irritability. Her serum iron levels were 360 µg/dl, which was well above the normal range for her age. Despite such high serum levels, the infant made an uneventful recovery with medical management alone and did not require exchange transfusion. We chose to report this case to highlight her uneventful recovery with conservative therapy alone.