Table 2 Distribution of admitted cases of poisoning in relation to age in years
Categories of poisoning | Age in years | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Up to 12 | 13-<20 | 20-<40 | 40-60 | >60 | ||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Rodenticides | 339 | 14.4 | 717 | 37.3 | 924 | 32.4 | 255 | 37.3 | 37 | 38.5 |
Pharmaceutical drugs | 582 | 24.7 | 448 | 23.3 | 551 | 19.3 | 92 | 13.5 | 10 | 10.4 |
CNS abused drugs | 531 | 22.6 | 364 | 18.9 | 734 | 25.7 | 114 | 16.7 | 12 | 12.5 |
Chemicals | 516 | 21.9 | 151 | 7.9 | 247 | 8.6 | 80 | 11.7 | 7 | 7.3 |
Insecticides | 249 | 10.6 | 178 | 9.3 | 285 | 10.0 | 111 | 16.2 | 20 | 20.8 |
Animal envenomation | 22 | 0.9 | 6 | 0.3 | 19 | 0.7 | 6 | 0.9 | 4 | 4.2 |
Botulism | 2 | 0.1 | 5 | 0.3 | 7 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
Unknown | 113 | 4.8 | 54 | 2.6 | 89 | 3.1 | 21 | 3.1 | 6 | 6.3 |
Total | 2354 | 100 | 1923 | 100 | 2856 | 100 | 684 | 100 | 96 | 100 |
| Â | 29.7 | Â | 24.3 | Â | 36.1 | Â | 8.6 | Â | 1.2 | |