Castor - 40%

Question 1

what is castor

Answer 1

Green plant and seeds

Question 2

Concerns Castor

Answer 2

Causes convulsions, kidney failure, and rapid death.

Question 3

Toxin Castor

Answer 3

ricin, inhibits protein syntheses - resulting in cell death

Question 4

Clinical signs Castor

Answer 4

severe abdominal pain, drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive thirst, weakness and loss of appetite

Question 5

Presents with….Castor

Answer 5

dehydration, muscle twitching, tremors, seizures, coma and death.

Question 6

Degree of toxicosis Castor

Answer 6

Worse with mastication, more chewed up beans, the more toxin released. Toxic with just one bean. If not chewed up, could go through GI tract without being absorbed.

Question 7

prepatent period Castor

Answer 7

Ususally within 6 hours, delay up to 42 reported

Question 8

treatment Castor

Answer 8

Emesis, activated charcoal, hospitalization, aggressive IV fluids, control seizures, vomiting, gi protectants,

Question 9

prognosis Castor

Answer 9

If only gi signs (with treatment), gets worse with liver involvement