Investigating Types of Poisoning in Children Aged 6 Months to 14 Years Who Referred to Heshmatieh Hospital in 2020-2021

Poisoning in children is one of the most important problems in the public health of today's society. One of the most essential factors in promoting the health of the society is paying special attention to the health of children and adolescents so the purpose of this study was to investigate the types of poisoning in children from 6 months to 14 years of age who referred to Heshmatieh Hospital in 2014-2016.

All children aged 6 months to 14 years who referred to the emergency department of Heshmatieh Hospital, whose final diagnosis was poisoning, were included in the study, and their information was entered in a specially designed form.

The most important cause of poisoning is drug poisoning or 4.4% and drug poisoning with 1.42%. 17.5% (22 people) were hospitalized in the ward and 16.7% (21 people) were hospitalized in the emergency room. Most of the children who had opium poisoning were in the age group of 6 months to 2 years old, and most of the children who had drug poisoning and alcohol poisoning were in the age group of 12to14 years (P<0.001). There was no significant statistical difference between gender (P=0.386) and place of residence (P=0.142) with the type of poisoning in children.

Adequate information to parents about poisoning, how to prevent and observe safety precautions in the storage of drugs, as well as regulating the supply of non-prescription drugs is necessary to control drug addiction and abuse.