A controlled therapeutic appraisal of modalities of treatment in Kerosene poisoning

Abstract

Various modalities of treatment, including therapy with penicillin, steroids and paracetamol are clinically evaluated in a prospective controlled study involving 100 cases of kerosene poisoning in children. In respect of clinical parameters, such as the development and extent of pyrexia and the period of hospital stay. therapy with both penicillin and paracetamol showed $statistically significant efficacy. but this was not evident in those patients receiving steroids, either alone or in combinations with penicillin. The mechanisms and role of such therapeutic regimes in the management of kerosene poisoning is discussed