Cade oil poisoning in pediatrics: about 12 cases

• Olfa chakroun-walha

  Emergency department, Habib Bourguiba University Hospital

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9224-7080 (unauthenticated)

Traditional therapy is a practice that is attracting more and more people, thus reinforcing the crisis of confidence between patient and treatment.
In this context, we propose to study the Tunisian recourse to the use of a type of tar "cade oil" advised sometimes by charlatans by habits and beliefs.
The diagnoses retained in these patients in association with tar poisoning were acute dehydration and febrile gastroenteritis. No specific treatment or antidote for tar was administered. The evolution was favorable for ten patients and fatal for two children.
The use of cade oil is currently rapidly growing. Its irrational use leads to serious, even fatal adverse events as noted in the literature and observed in our study. Preventive measures are required, including awareness-raising action: information and communication, Scientific action
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