Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hilbert, Gilles
• Bédry, Régis
• Cardinaud, Jean-P
• Benissan, Georges Gbikpi

Titel

Euro Bleach: Fatal Hypernatremia Due to 13.3% Sodium Hypochlorite (Letter)

Ist Teil von

• Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1997, Vol.35 (6), p.635-636

Ort / Verlag

Monticello, NY: Informa UK Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• French commercial bleach solutions contain 3.8-13.3% sodium hypochlorite stabilized by <0.1% of sodium hydroxide with approximate pH 11. Although most of the toxicity due to bleach involves caustic lesions, metabolic consequences of bleach ingestion are reported including three cases of hyperchloremic acidosis and two of hypernatremia. We alert readers to a fatal intoxication resulting in hypernatremia and hyperchloremic acidosis.