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MERCURY


Introduction:-
Metallic mercury also known as quick silver. It is a liquid metal with a bright silvery lustre.

Source:- Mercuric chloric

Sign and symptoms:-
The symptoms commence soon after the poison is swallowed. The taste is metallic with a feeling constrintion in the throat, buring sensation from mouth to stomach and pain radiating over the abdomen. The mucus membrane appears greyish white. There a nausea with frequent vomiting of long stringy masses of white mucus. It may mixed with blood, painful tenesmus. Collapse sets in with cold clammy skin, pale anxious face, sunken eyes, dilated pupil, rapid feeble pulse, sighing respiration. Syncope, convulsions usually preceed death in a few hours. 
If death is not rapid, salivation may developed, gums may become swollen and inflammed and the breath foul, looseling of teeth and ulcerated glossitis may follow. A renal lesion soon appears due to nephrotoxicity of mercury. Urine may contain albumin and blood.

Fatal dose:-   1-2gm
Fatal period:-  Death may occur with in a few hours but may delay for 3-5 days.

Treatment:-
Stomach should be washed out. Egg albumin may be administered. Medicinal charcoal also effective in the usual doses.

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