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Vegetation, vegetables, vesicles: plants and skin

01 June 2003

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Plants and plant extracts can adversely affect the skin in several ways that can be all too familiar, but sometimes surprising. Skin effects are most commonly...

Problems with eating fungi

01 September 2000

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Enquiries concerning ingestion of fungi are fairly common, particularly during the autumn when their growth is most prolific. The usual scenario is that of a small...

Pesticide poisoning: insecticides

01 June 1999

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Insecticides are used in a variety of settings: on farms, in the workplace, in the home and garden and medicinally. In agriculture they are used to control insects...

Pesticide poisoning: herbicides

01 May 1999

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Apesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest (insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed)...