Plants That Poison In Uruguay

Abstract

Poisoning by plants has different traits in each country, according to geographical, botanical and also socio-cultural character! sties.

The incidence of “plant calls” to the Poison Control Center in Uruguay is not very high, but it is due usually to symptomatic cases affecting children. Plant poisoning in adults is less frequent, being due to home-made medicine, and, in women, to the popular belief in the abortive quality of some plants. Suicide attempts are rare.

The different species that cause consultations, and the clinical characteristics are briefly analyzed, as well as the problems that a Poison Control Center usually has to face in poisoning by plants.