The chemical is a superwarfarin, a class of substances that thin the blood. They're used medicinally, and they kill mice by causing internal hemorrhaging. There were more than 16, superwarfarin exposure reports in , mostly in children under 6 years old. Victims become ill a day or two after eating d-Con, but can usually be treated with blood transfusions or vitamin K, which enables blood clotting and is blocked from working by brodifacoum.
Fatalities are so rare it's unclear what a lethal dose would be. The International Programme on Chemical Safety reports a case of a psychotic pregnant woman who survived after eating 30 boxes of rat poison -- 3. In there were two reported brodifacoum deaths, including one of a year-old man that was classed as malicious.
He suffered stomach pain, a headache and vomiting, and died after his brain started bleeding. A major brodifacoum poisoning case ended last month when a Wisconsin judge dismissed attempted homicide charges against a year-old accused of poisoning his mother, stepfather and 3-year-old stepsister.
The stepfather found blue-green crystals in his coffee and became suspicious when the boy -- who had threatened to kill his family -- was not getting sick like the rest of the family. The teen later told police he poisoned juice, milk, spaghetti, coffee and meat. In the East Hartford incident, Medina fell seriously ill after eating and drinking his tainted meal, police said.
That could mean he'd already been consuming d-Con for a few days, or that his immediate illness was caused by something else. It has to be given over a period time, and has to be titrated to the right dose and time period. It's possible but not typical. Medina himself has apparently already decided he was not poisoned, or that his girlfriend's action was forgivable.
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Related Articles. To eat 1. The amount needed in an older child or adult would be proportionately higher as the body weight increased. The antidote for proven poisoning is vitamin K. As brodifacoum is a long-acting anticoagulant a drug that prevents blood clotting , treatment may be needed for some weeks, but this will vary from case to case.
A person already on medication that affects blood clotting, for example warfarin, will be affected by a much smaller dose of brodifacoum than someone who is not on medication. In addition, a person with significant pre-existing liver disease may also be more easily affected as they could already have abnormalities in their blood clotting system. There are a number of other prescribed drugs and diseases that interact with brodifacoum, and these should be discussed with a general practitioner.
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