Last month, Cindy Stephen received a call on the Poisons Information Centre helpline from a concerned doctor at a hospital in Mpumalanga. His patient was gravely ill.
“He had intentionally drunk some weed killer about four days prior. He had a period of severe stress,” said Stephen, the director of the centre at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town.
“He was treated at the clinic and he was discharged a day or two later, being well.”
Two days later, the man was back in hospital. “He was struggling to breathe, even with oxygen. His eyes were yellow, his liver had failed, he had…
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