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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Mercury Poisoning
Sections: Key Features, Clinical Findings, Treatment, Acute poisoning, Chronic poisoning,
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Topics Discussed: mercury poisoning.
Excerpt: | |  No specific treatment exists for mercury vapor pneumonitis
Ingestion of liquid metallic mercury: small amounts usually pass unabsorbed through the GI tract Treat oliguria and anuria if they occur to maintain urinary output For acute ingestion of mercuric salts | | – Remove ingestion by gastric lavage – Administer activated charcoal 60–100 g in aqueous slurry orally or via gastric tube (unproved efficacy) – Give dimercaprol (British anti-Lewisite, BAL) at once, 10% solution in oil, 3–5 mg/kg intramuscularly every 4–6 hours for 2 days – Consider succimer (DMSA), 10 mg/kg orally every 8 hours for 5 days and then every 12 hours for 2 weeks, unless patient has severe gastroenteritis..."
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