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Case Reports
. 2005 Jul 29;118(1219):U1587.

Lead poisoning due to ingestion of Indian herbal remedies

Anne Roche  1 , Christopher Florkowski, Trevor Walmsley
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Case Reports

Lead poisoning due to ingestion of Indian herbal remedies

Anne Roche et al. N Z Med J. .

Abstract

A case of lead poisoning is presented. The patient had recently returned to New Zealand from the Indian subcontinent. This prompted a search that identified lead contamination of ingested medicinal products that had been prescribed in India. There have been several case reports of lead toxicity due to contamination of Indian herbal medicines, though none, to our knowledge, previously reported from New Zealand.

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